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Stasi (East German Secret Police) Headquarters, Forschungs und Gedenkst�tte Normannenstrasse

The Stasi Insignia.

The exterior of the museum. The actual Stasi complex was bounded by Frankfurter Allee, Ruschestrasse, Normannenstrasse and Magdalenenstrasse. It was the size of London's Whitehall.

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This photo shows a collection of medals, badges flags and other GDR kitch. The tapestry on the left is of Erich Mielke the Head of the Stasi from 1957 to 1989.

Erich Mielke's office.

The longtime head of the East German secret police and spy agency, Erich Mielke, is buried in Friedrichsfelde Cemetery. But in a final snub reflecting how much he was despised, his grave was kept out of the memorial where other famous communists were laid to rest. Mielke, who died May 22 2000 aged 92 in an east Berlin nursing home, was buried in the Friedrichsfelde district cemetery. About 100 mourners reportedly attended. Mielke's grave is outside the memorial section established at the entrance in 1951 by East German leaders for communist heroes. Among those buried there are Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg, co-founders of the German Communist Party who were arrested and killed by army irregulars in 1919, as well as one-time East German leaders Wilhelm Pieck and Walter Ulbricht. Mielke headed the Ministry of State Security, known as the Stasi, from 1957 until the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. His network of 85,000 full-time domestic spies and 170,000 voluntary informers kept tabs on millions of people, making Mielke one of the most powerful � and most hated � men in East Germany.

The Conference Room.

Stasi: The Untold Story of East Germany's Secret Police. The Stasi - East Germany's Ministry for State Security - spread its tentacles like a giant octopus over East German society to repress political opposition and cause the imprisonment of hundreds of thousands of citizens. It was one of the most powerful secret police and espionage services in the world. This volume provides a review of the Stasi's activities within East Germany and elsewhere, including its programmes for internal repression, international espionage, terrorism and terrorists

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The Stasi Files: East Germany's Secret Operations Against Britain .

The definitive, revelatory account of the GDR's Cold War espionage activities against the UK: their goals, methods, sources -- and recruits. Before the collapse of Communist East Germany the country ran one of the most extensive intelligence networks in the world. Its secret service, the Stasi, consisted of as many as 150,000 agents by the time of its demise in 1990. Much more than a junior partner to the Soviet Union's KGB, the Stasi was in fact a highly professional and ruthless organisation which was dedicated to principles of conspiratorial aggressiveness and the protection of the Communist cause. Anthony Glees is one of the last researchers to gain access to the Stasi Archive in Berlin before it was closed. Drawing on documentary evidence in the files he presents a fascinating portrait of the Stasi's interest in, among other topics, the burgeoning CND movement in Britain and the Labour Party's prospects of holding office. Along the way he explains the elaborate structure of intelligence officers, agents and sources who together constituted the troops on the ground for the Stasi's campaign against the UK. Revelatory and controversial, THE STASI FILES is the most important book on espionage to appear since THE MITROKHIN ARCHIVE.

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