My favourite Stasi anecdote was during a German documentary about the Stasi, which oriented itself heavily on "das Leben der anderen", a movie about the Stasi which came out at the same time, was when one of their interviewees recalled that when he ended a phone call with his brother they always wished the whole family a good night, followed by wishing the Stasi operative that was probably listening a good night. He then said that he got an official letter from the Ministerium für Staatssicherheit which demanded that they stopped this. Fuckers weren't just listening, they were letting them know that they're listening. Imagine making a meme about the poor FBI agent who has to check your browser history, only for them to tell you to stop posting such memes

@louiscypher4186

10 ай бұрын

Perhaps the most disturbing one i ever heard, was a man who was targeted by the Stasi and he didn't know why, they abducted him in the middle of the night brought him into a prison, threw him in a cell and questioned him continuously on unrelated subjects until dawn, then released him. Then they did it the next night and the next for two weeks straight, then they just stopped. At the time of his interview he still didn't know why they had done it to him. The german state confirmed they had his Stasi file but he didn't want to read it because he was afraid that the person who gave his name to the Stasi was a member of his own family.

@brokkrep

10 ай бұрын

@@louiscypher4186 that's really sad. Thx for sharing this.

@glennhubbard5008

10 ай бұрын

FBI? Oh, just wait.

@taraarrington2285

10 ай бұрын

I blow em a kiss😊🤣😘 but most have a cluster b personality disorder so that can be dangerous.

@ashcarrier6606

3 ай бұрын

Never believe that Germans don't have a sense of humor.

After the fall of the Berlin Wall most Stasis worked as taxi drivers Because they already knew where you lived 😅😅😅

@Steve14ps

Жыл бұрын

and where you would be at any given time

@petebondurant58

10 ай бұрын

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

@Videx19

10 ай бұрын

LOL

@cathydowns5442

10 ай бұрын

Taxi-Fahrer??? Wohl eher Polizisten und Politiker! Dieses Gesindel fungiert heute noch unter uns!

@eriklapparent4662

10 ай бұрын

Too good!

Google now does a far better job of surveillance than the Stasi could even dream of!

@petebondurant58

10 ай бұрын

@neilwalsh4058 Google isn’t going to throw you into Bautzen for ten years.

@SouthBaySteelers

10 ай бұрын

Google and Fascist Book.

@eq1373

10 ай бұрын

​@@petebondurant58yet

@FHIPrincePeter

10 ай бұрын

@@petebondurant58 Worse. Google will control what you see when you see it. It will inform your bank of your credit status and 3rd parties what products you may have an interest in. The Stasi did not put everyone into Bautzen for 10 Years, only those they believed did crimes against the state. This is similar to Julien Aussange , Andrew Tate or Tommy Robinson and to a lesser degree Nigel Farage de Banking scandal. The DE platforming and de Banking are all part of the same means for control or "Nudging".

@niklasschmidt

10 ай бұрын

The difference is that there is not a centralized terror organisation at its center.

I spent six weeks touring East Germany in 1976 with a Baroque Music group on a more-or-less official tour arranged by the US State Department. We had a Party official and a Stasi agent assigned to us 24/7. Additionally, we were shadowed constantly when we’d go out “shopping” or just walking in Halle, Suhl, Weissenfels, East Berlin…now, of course, surveillance is everywhere but it’s all digital. Lovely.

@mnoorist8223

10 ай бұрын

pretty sure there was a spy among u

@timmotel5804

10 ай бұрын

Yes. Look at England. "They're Looking At You"...

@twietter

10 ай бұрын

It’s funny when it’s the west which always talks about freedom made the world a one giant surveillance state And it’s all by using security as an excuse What the hell is going on

Erich Mielke was every bit as terrifying as any SS officer. He was utterly ruthless, very intelligent, fanatical and highly disciplined. People feared and loathed him, and rightly so.

@tombaxter6228

Жыл бұрын

Ironically, very few people actually knew who headed up the Stasi. His identity was a state secret. When he finally appeared before the Volkskammer in the dying days of the DDR, quite a few party officials expressed amazement that 'This old man' was in charge of the Stasi...

@mt_gox

Жыл бұрын

oh so you can read wikipedia 🙄

@mt_gox

Жыл бұрын

@@tombaxter6228 liar

@tombaxter6228

Жыл бұрын

Oh no. An edge-lord, everyone!

@danielwang7793

Жыл бұрын

@@tombaxter6228 Inaccurate, he was referred to as the Minister of State Security numerous times in East German media. If you don't believe me, you can literally do a text search of the archives of the party organ Neues Deutschland and find several instances of this "state secret".

I visited the DDR in 1977 and was followed everywhere. After 1989 I was notified that I had a Stasi file. Interesting reading but not surprising.

@grundgesetzart.1463

10 ай бұрын

An East German travelling in the USA would not have a "file" in your opinion? He surely would have had one.

@oklahomahank2378

10 ай бұрын

@@grundgesetzart.1463 I said nothing like that. Of course visitors from hostile countries are monitored. I was not surprised I had a file. A Stasi guy followed me everywhere.

@petebondurant58

2 ай бұрын

@@grundgesetzart.1463 Not likely. There were thousands upon thousands of foreigners at American universities during the Cold War. It would have been impossible for a government agency to monitor even a fraction of them, and it would tie up resources that could have been utilized to more useful ends.

@aj237589

28 күн бұрын

@@petebondurant58 You obviously haven't seen how many files the Stasi made in their existence, they had one for almost every single German citizen, so much so that many people could even look them up in their daily time. Look at the number of files the Stasi made, the official count of people who wanted to view their own files was over 7 million.

@petebondurant58

28 күн бұрын

@@aj237589 Yes...and they were so overburdened by the glut of information, that it proved rather useless much of the time.

Now, everyone is under surveillance, a Stasi daydream.

@007romryan

10 ай бұрын

To true. Our I phones, how we shop online, the shows we watch, search history, our conversations. All go into some databank somewhere. Also the gaslighting and calling people "nazi"- tried and true Stasi psyops.

@rdallas81

10 ай бұрын

Only those who live their lives from behind a screen.

@Fred_the_1996

10 ай бұрын

@@rdallas81not really, there are cameras everywhere on the streets

@rdallas81

10 ай бұрын

@@Fred_the_1996 Ok

@mrsmiley707

8 ай бұрын

​@@rdallas81basically everyone

The Stasi was much smarter than the Gestapo! Early on the East German authorities looked at the Gestapo, and realized that the Gestapo were way too violent to be effective in the long-term. The East German government realized that if the Stasi was excessively violent like the Gestapo, then eventually people will rise up against you for being excessively violent. So in truth the Stasi rarely resorted to outright physical violence, especially compared to the Gestapo. The Stasi realized that psychological warfare against “enemies of the state” was often much more effective than physical aggression. So the Stasi often psychologically threatened enemies of the state by threatening to ruin their life, and ruin the lives of their friends and family for insubordination to the state. Psychological warfare was extremely effective in bringing about obedience to the state in East Germany!

@niklasschmidt

10 ай бұрын

But it was built on the basis of the Kgb. Which was as violent as the gestapo. Both wolf and Mielke where part of the communist in Moscow exile during the Nazi rule

@ДмитрийТихомировСССР

10 ай бұрын

​@@niklasschmidt, ​ @niklassschmidt, the KGB knows nothing to do with the Gestapo. But the CIA and the FBI and the secret services of West Germany collaborated with the former Gestapo after the war. КГБ не имеет ничего общего с гестапо. А ЦРУ и ФБР и спецслужбы западной Германии после войны сотрудничали с бывшими гестаповцами.

@arthas640

10 ай бұрын

@@niklasschmidt the Stasi were very violent, it's just that unlike the Gestapo they did it mostly behind closed doors and tortured people in ways that left less evidence. That makes sense since the Gestapo _needed_ that fear of overt violence to try and quell rebellions since they had a fraction of the manpower of the Stasi when compared to how many people they had to police. The Stasi though already had people terrified but needed to at least pretend like they werent torturing and killing people.

@niklasschmidt

10 ай бұрын

@@ДмитрийТихомировСССР Stasi called themselves Chekists internally. The admiration of Djerschzinski was as prominent as within the Kgb. NKVD, the tjeka etc was a different beast than Gestapo. But a beast it was. The execution of virtually all red guards from the civil war. The antisemitic doctor's trails. Katyn. 1937. Mass executions in western Ukraine. The list goes on. While Many a Soviet atrocity may have been political. Stalins hatred of jews was of importance for the doctors trails, and cleansing the party from people of Stalin's generation. Even the devil needs a dog.

@Qba86

10 ай бұрын

From Western perspective it might seem that the Eastern Block was uniform and frozen in time. Which it was in many ways. But in others it did evolve. The most obvious change occured following Stalin's death, when many Eastern Block countries transitioned from full totalitarianism to run-of-the-mill authoritarianism. With Stasi a serious change took place in the 70s, when GDR tried to improve its standing on the international stage and thus began substituting physical violence with psychological one.

It's curious to compare Stasi with similar institutions in other Eastern Block countries. For example, if Polish secret police was out to get you, you were usually aware of it and had a pretty good idea as to why. People who for some reason landed in Służba Bezpieczeństwa's crosshairs would often get a "friendly" warning to stop doing what they were doing if they didn't want to get in trouble. It was still awful, but East Germans didn't even get that "luxury".

@niklasschmidt

9 ай бұрын

At its peak, Stasi´s budget was greater than that of the CIA. But in context it was the real state. The party was secondary to STASI in power.

@Qba86

9 ай бұрын

@@niklasschmidt Also, Stasi had its own prisons and a "parallel" judicial system. Obviously an independent judiciary is a fiction in every authoritarian state, but in other Eastern Block countries the secret police and the judiciary were at least separate entities. So Stasi was indeed a state within a state.

@niklasschmidt

9 ай бұрын

@@Qba86 True. Stasi was the shadow state in a way that is fairly unique.

Old East German joke: near the end of the DDR, two STASI officers are observing a protest. STASI #1 asks the other “Are you thinking what I’m thinking?” STASI #2 replies “Yes, I am” STASI #1 says, “In that case, you’re under arrest!”

When in Berlin, be sure to visit Hohenschoenhausen, which was a NKVD then STASI prison. It’s now a memorial. It’s like a mini SuperMax prison, which makes me pause to wonder if SuperMax is ethical and humane. The difference, hopefully, is that Hohenschoenhausen was for political prisoners and meant for suppressing the masses, while SuperMax is for the most violent criminals.

The FBI is learning from the experts at the STASI.

@johanvandenberg3479

10 ай бұрын

That's because Americans can do nothing by themselfes,in ww2 they kidnapped germany's best people for their knowledge

@CoolestDude38NC

10 ай бұрын

Please be more specific and back up your claim with evidence.

@indianasunsets5738

10 ай бұрын

@@CoolestDude38NC did your boyfriend tell you to ask that?

@CoolestDude38NC

10 ай бұрын

@@indianasunsets5738 huh?

@watchit5985

10 ай бұрын

@@CoolestDude38NC huh? 🤣🤣🤣

My mother, grandmother,grandfather and both uncles lived in the DDR. The Stasi pulled my uncle from his home beat him and took him a gulag mining copper. He received a 3 year sentence for participating in the Spring Uprising in the 50s. Then in the 60s my uncle was arrested again for bringing in western magazines into the DDR. He was given 3.5 years. His friend was arrested for bringing bibles into the DDR. He received 10 years but died in prison. There was a listening post on the mountain next to the town. When the Stasi left the townspeople went up to look inside. They found that the post was spying on the town. Each citizen had a file on them. The phones where all being listened to.

@EscherBay

10 ай бұрын

sorry to hear bout your uncle. It's scary to live in East Germany, you don't know who the spies are, there were so many, it could be one of the family members, friends, neighbours, worse, could be one of your household.

@scarecrow559fresno

10 ай бұрын

that is pretty metal

@EscherBay

10 ай бұрын

@@scarecrow559fresno not sure what you mean? It’s pretty metal

@scarecrow559fresno

10 ай бұрын

@@EscherBay low t take

@EscherBay

10 ай бұрын

@@scarecrow559fresno I still don’t get what’s that mean?

I visited the GDR a few times. Looking back, I would like to see my Stasi file. They were suspicious of foreigners who could speak fluent German, so that probably put me on a blacklist straight away. That said, I freely admit to drinking the odd beer and a few coffees, eating some meals (not great quality if I'm honest), attending a handful of conferences, going to a couple of theatres and cinemas and generally keeping a low profile.

they could torture me all they want if the interrogator would speak in a saxon accent i will still laugh

At the end many of the former Stasi members,served at the German Federal Secret services instead of pay for their crimes

@ДмитрийТихомировСССР

10 ай бұрын

Штази не совершали преступлений. Они служили своей стране и выполняли её законы. ГДР не являллась каким-то незаконным образованием, а была государством, которое признавал весь мир, поэтому преследовать сотрудников штази за то, что они выполняли свои обязанности - это преступление.

@badart3204

10 ай бұрын

⁠@@ДмитрийТихомировСССРWhen the GDR was absorbed into the Western Government the Stasi became subject to the laws of the new government and thus what they did was illegal retroactively and thus they deserve punishment. It is not a crime to punish people for supporting an immoral state after you incorporate it as shown by the punishment of the Nazi’s at Nuremberg

@ДмитрийТихомировСССР

10 ай бұрын

@@badart3204, The GDR was not an immoral state. The GDR was a state governed by the rule of law, which was recognized by the entire world community. There can be no justice retroactively. There was a union of two equal states. During the unification, there was no question at all that one state was legal, and the other was criminal, immoral. No one said anything like that. And as a result, the East Germans received infringement of their rights, lustration. This is a vile deception. The world community did not recognize the GDR as an immoral and criminal state. There was no international trial of the GDR leadership. It was just the arbitrariness of one state over the citizens of another state, which was suddenly taken and abolished. People were judged according to the laws of a foreign state, according to which they had never lived and knew nothing about them. It was just revenge. And the comparison with the Nuremberg trials is generally inappropriate here. The Third Reich opposed itself to the whole world, unleashed a world war, proclaimed misanthropic ideas of natural, genetic inequality of people and carried out, in accordance with these ideas, the elimination of entire human groups by industrial means, as a result of which it killed tens of millions of people. Do you want to equate the outbreak of a world war and the killing of tens of millions of people by industrial means with shooting at defectors at the border and the surveillance of unreliable citizens by special services? Are these the same things for you? But all states guard their borders and their state foundations. Defectors are being shot at on many borders. You may not like it, but it exists. It is dishonest, despicable and criminal to punish people for following the laws of a state recognized by the entire world community. People could not defend themselves, they were defenseless before this arbitrariness. Erich Honnecker, a very old man, was sent to the same prison in which he was held and tortured by the Nazis during World War II. This is a farce and a monstrous meanness. People who served in the special services, government agencies, the army, and the GDR police are not hired, while a huge number of employees of the Wehrmacht and other structures of the Third Reich were recruited into the Bundeswehr, special services, and the German police after World War II. Even war criminals, SS officers were accepted for service and not only in Germany, but also in the USA. For example, Adolf Heusinger, who during World War II was the chief of operations of the General Staff of the ground Forces of Nazi Germany, after the war became Inspector General of the Bundeswehr, and then chairman of the NATO military committee. While the USSR in 1961 demanded his extradition as a war criminal guilty of mass murder of civilians in the German-occupied Soviet territory. In particular, Heusinger was charged with an order to shoot 6,700 people in a Ukrainian town on the night of March 1 to March 2, 1943 Koryukovka. But Heusinger was never issued. He continued to serve NATO quietly. And there are quite a few people like Heusinger who served as Nazis and were accused of crimes against humanity, and then found refuge in the West. And former citizens of the GDR, who did not commit any crimes, were subjected to lustration. And I will repeat once again that this is meanness and double standards. ГДР не была аморальным государством. ГДР была правовым государством, которое было признанно всем мировым сообществом. Не может правосудия задним числом. Было объединение двух равных государств. При объединении вообще не шло никакой речи, что одно государство правовое, а другое преступное, аморальное. Никто ничего подобного не говорил. А в результате восточные немцы получили ущемление в правах, люстрации. Это подлый обман. Мировое сообщество не признавало ГДР аморальным и преступным государством. Не было международного суда над руководством ГДР. Это был просто произвол одного государства над гражданами другого государства, которое вдруг взяли и упразднили. Людей судили по законам чужого государства, по которым они никогда не жили и ничего о них не знали. Это была просто месть. И сравнение с Нюрнбергским процессом здесь вообще неуместно. Третий рейх противопоставил себя всему миру, развязал мировую войну, провозгласил человеконенавистнические идеи природного, генетического неравенства людей и осуществлял, в соответствии с этими идеями, ликвидацию целых человеческих групп промышленными способами, в результате чего умертвил десятки миллионов людей. Вы хотите развязывание мировой войны и умерщвление десятков миллионов людей промышленными способами уравнять со стрельбой по перебежчикам на границе и слежкой спецслужб за неблагонадёжными гражданами? Для вас это одинаковые вещи? Но все государства охраняют свою границу и свои государственные устои. На многих границах стреляют в перебежчиков. Вам это может не нравиться, но это так. Бесчестно, подло и преступно карать людей за то, что они выполняли законы признанного всем мировым сообществом государства. Люди не могли защититься, они были беззащитны перед этим произволом. Эрих Хоннекер, глубокий старик, был отправлен в ту же тюрьму, в которой его держали и пытали нацисты во время второй мировой войны. Это фарс и чудовищная подлость. Людей, служивших в спецслужбах, госорганах, армии, полиции ГДР не берут на работу, в то время, как огромное количество служащих вермахта и других структур третьего рейха были приняты на службу в бундесвер, в спецслужбы, в полицию ФРГ после второй мировой войны. Даже военные преступники, служащие СС принимались на службу и не только в ФРГ, но и в США. Например, Адольф Хойзингер, во время Второй мировой войны бывший начальником оперативного отдела генерального штаба сухопутных войск нацистской Германии, после войны стал генеральным инспектором бундесвера, а затем председателем военного комитета НАТО. В то время, как СССР в 1961 году требовал его выдачи, как военного преступника, повинного в массовом убийстве мирного населения на оккупированной немцами советской территории. В частности, Хойзингеру вменялся в вину приказ о расстреле в ночь с 1 на 2 марта 1943 года 6700 человек в украинском городке Корюковка. Но Хойзингер так и не был выдан. Он продолжал спокойно служить НАТО. И таких, как Хойзингер, людей служивших нацистами и обвиняемых в преступлениях против человечности, а потом нашедших убежище на западе, не мало. А бывшие граждане ГДР, никаких преступлений не совершавшие, подвергнуты люстрации. И я ещё раз повторю, что это подлость и двойные стандарты.

@petebondurant58

2 ай бұрын

Most of them actually wound up working for Russian backed business firms. They were too compromised to be employed by the Bundesnachrichtendienst.

@petebondurant58

2 ай бұрын

@@ДмитрийТихомировСССР Вы не совсем русская.

Imagine doing something that everybody else hated and wanted to run away from

Superb man ❤️ you are too underrated. U must get views in millions. Good luck 🤞🏼

@rdallas81

10 ай бұрын

Blocked 🚫 by the Stassi

It was the decompostion of the Citizenery, not just dissidents.

A teacher of mine sat in hohenschönhausen for simply being in the Peace Movement and my grandfather was shocked when he First saw his Stasi-file. A lot of stasi members have Made a good career since the fall. They were fucking good but also fucking evil…

I'm old enough to remember the DDR. When I was a kid, I knew people in then West Germany, with relatives on the other side. When they sent packages, they were not allowed to wrap anything in newspaper.

So basically the Stasi was the DDR version of the Gestapo.

@williamreith1186

2 жыл бұрын

By all accounts, it was the "new and improved" version of the Gestapo, painted communist red. Horrific.

@bradleyhoyt3188

2 жыл бұрын

@@williamreith1186 indeed. If my understanding of the DDR is correct it was basically a communist continuation of Nazi Germany right? Minus Hitler that is.

@Edgesofnowhere008

2 жыл бұрын

Instead of shooting you and your family in the back of the head. They would torture you slowly to the point you'd insanely overthink your very life. Until they moved in to lock you up and do whatever they wished for protocol.

@Antonio18677

Жыл бұрын

@@williamreith1186 so they were Soviet? I’ve always been confused about the East German and west German borders

@dalegribble1560

Жыл бұрын

Way worse.

Mielke would have loved our current Central Intelligence Bureau of Investigation.

@niklasschmidt

9 ай бұрын

If it had existed, possibly

Cool informative show you have ! Thank you for your hard work

The state commits the most heinous of crimes

STASI Akronym für: S - Schlagen T - Treten A - Abhören S - Spionieren I - Inhaftieren

Subscribed. This channel needs to blow up ASAP!

Really interesting concise little video thanks

In Soviet Union, you don’t report to police; police report YOU! Stasi: b***h, sit the hell down!

Liked and Subscribed. Very informative clip

Super Video !

Would love to hear this documentary if it didn’t sound like he was on speed while narrating

I need the narrator to record all of my uni textbooks as audiobooks

The Gestapo had 7,000 unarmed officers at its peak.

Top Video !

Modled on the NKVD but quiclly surpassed it, of course they did, its germans and paperwork, no one could do it better

The Ministry for State Security (German: Ministerium für Staatssicherheit, MfS), or State Security Service (Staatssicherheitsdienst, SSD), commonly known as the Stasi, was the official state security service of the German Democratic Republic (East Germany, GDR) from 1950 to 1990. It has been described as one of the most effective and repressive intelligence and secret police agencies to have ever existed. The Stasi was headquartered in East Berlin, with an extensive complex in Berlin-Lichtenberg and several smaller facilities throughout the city. The Stasi motto was Schild und Schwert der Partei (Shield and Sword of the Party), referring to the ruling Socialist Unity Party of Germany (Sozialistische Einheitspartei Deutschlands, SED) and also echoing a theme of the KGB, the Soviet counterpart and close partner, with respect to its own ruling party, the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU). Erich Mielke was the Stasi's longest-serving chief, in power for 32 of the 40 years of the GDR's existence. One of the Stasi's main tasks was spying on the population, primarily through a vast network of citizens-turned-informants, and fighting any opposition by overt and covert measures, including hidden psychological destruction of dissidents (Zersetzung, literally meaning "decomposition"). It arrested 250,000 people as political prisoners during its existence. Its Main Directorate for Reconnaissance (Hauptverwaltung Aufklärung) was responsible both for espionage and for conducting covert operations in foreign countries. Under its long-time head Markus Wolf, this directorate gained a reputation as one of the most effective intelligence agencies of the Cold War. The Stasi also maintained contacts, and occasionally cooperated, with West German terrorists. Numerous Stasi officials were prosecuted for their crimes after 1990. After German reunification, the surveillance files that the Stasi had maintained on millions of East Germans were opened, so that all citizens could inspect their personal file on request. The files were maintained by the Stasi Records Agency until June 2021, when they became part of the German Federal Archives.

And just like the Gestapo after the war, very few were punished.

my aunt was in the evangelic youth in the GDR and at 20 her stasi file was like 2 inches thick lol she took it with humour

Romanian SECURITATE was the most terrifying police in all eastern block!

@danielvanr.8681

2 ай бұрын

Albania's Sigurimi weren't exactly cub scouts either. 😉

Pretty obvious, when the Gestapo was basically it's predecessor.

Gangstalking around the world today.

@nemesisferrari8537

Жыл бұрын

I know for sure. In Spain they often use quite a lot of silent techniques to disturb unwilling people. Gang stalking disturb Frequencies, spreading rumors, turning all family members against one single person. If they disturb the wrong people, all his efforts will turn around against them

Top viideo !

GDR, the land where half the population spied the other half

German efficiency meets stalinistic paranoia!

Being ''expelled from East Germany" would be good thing then wouldn't it be? Seeing as many tried to escape East Germany?

“Calling from unidentified phone numbers”, so, uhm, any phone back then.

@Zodibear

3 ай бұрын

I get these calls all the time….

No way. People here just don’t know how bad situations existed in Germany. This country can not be compared to these happenings in Germany.

The narration is perhaps more suitable to athletic events

How do you spell Stasi today? S M A R T P H O N E

My aunt and grandfather lived in east Germany They have stazi stories that would blow your mind

Very interesting and for me very easy to relate to all this, I can recall travelling around West Germany in the seventies and eighties and going right up to the border with East Germany. Incidentally, it would be nice if the narrator to this film learnt how to pronounce German names and nouns properly !!

@jean6872

10 ай бұрын

He's English; what do you expect?

This model is used nowadays by social media and the American government.

Basically, everyone was or could be a snitch in the GDR

According to an E German citizen I was stopped 5 times in one day by the Stasi while bicycling at age 18 from Ludwigsbug W Germany to W Berlin thru E Germany. And he was astounded they let me go 5 times. I was interrogated at lunch. Obviously I didn't act very dangerously. LoL

I'm a bit puzzled on why the information of 'cooperation' with the PLO was included, it was mearly mentioned with little to no details and felt a bit out of place in a otherwise interesting video.

There’s a lot of western governments including here in Canada that the Stasi would be quite envious of…

simping for a state to the extreme levels, goddamn

Dang…. Sounds familiar…..

Anyone interested in this- Stasiland by Anna Funder!

8 red bulls and ready to narrate some youtube

They were totally Ruthless .......

Stasi were amateurs compared to the Securitate in Romania.

The Stasi may've had the largest number of people within their lines. But the albanian Sigurimi and romanian Securitate were even worse in case of punishments and terror

STASI - THE RENAMED GESTAPO. The Stasi, when formed at the end of WW2 by East Germany, took over the Gestapo, simply changing the name to "Stasi". As a result it continued to use Gestapo tactics and Gestapo Police stations. Up until the time of its demise in February 1990, it was still torturing, beating and murdering citizens. Including a friend of mine..... An East German friend of mine being a victim in 1989, when he learnt the Czechs had already opened their border to the West (Austria). So he jumped in his little Trabant car and drove for the East German Czech border. He was stopped a few miles from the border by the Stasi, dragged from his car. Hauled off to a Stasi Police station, where for three days they repeatedly beat him with truncheons. Causing his intestines to begin to spill out. At which point they shoved him in a Police car, and threw him out at about 30mph into a cobbled street. Even today he still has a physically bulging deformed stomach !!! Luckily for Svennie, residents saw the incident and he was rushed to Hospital. 3 Days later the East German President opened the East to West German border, as the beginning of the end of a separate East Germany !!!!

@siddharthaghosh191

11 ай бұрын

I know I may sound cold, I do not mean to. But then, things were falling apart. He could have just waited few days.

@railwaymechanicalengineer4587

10 ай бұрын

@@siddharthaghosh191You are obviously too young to know of the TERROR that existed in EVERY USSR controlled Totalitarian state, including especially East Germany. On the actual day that Chancellor Eric Honicker announced on East German TV that the East-West German border would be opened, my ex East German Secretary (Rossiter Nishke) told me, that her town of Wernigerode (pop 40,000) was utterly deserted within 30 minutes. Why? Because every citizen knew the Russians WOULD send the Tanks & troops onto the streets of East Germany and you would be shot or crushed by the tanks. No matter what the East German Chancellor might have said !!!! My Secretary and her children hid in their cellar all that day, along with virtually every family in that town. And that was 3 days after my friend Svennie had been stopped and was being brutalised by the Stasi. Wernigerode a mindbogglingly beautiful medieval town (even today) in the Harz Mountains, was just a few miles from the infamous Brocken Mountain (of Whitchcraft fame) where there was a major Russian base full of Russians & East German Stasi. It was also one of the most important Russian Cold War era Spy stations.(Today a Museum). As it physically looks down on West Germany from the 4002ft summit. Protesters from the West surrounded the mountain top redoubt within days of the border being opened, demanding the Russians & Stasi leave. A handful died trying to break down the concrete wall (similar to the one in Berlin that had already been taken down). The Russian troops had been given NO orders as to what to do, and it was touch and go all day long as to whether they would open fire on the Westerners & Western press !!!!

@petebondurant58

10 ай бұрын

There were no former Gestapo men serving in the MfS or its predecessor organizations. The Stasi was created solely by the Soviet NLVD and former German KPD (Communist Party of Germany) members following the war.

@marcofreyssonnet9673

10 ай бұрын

The BND took over the gestapo, not the Stasi. The east German leaders were former antinazi fighters, including some survivors from concentration camps, and former nazis were excluded from every position of responsibility, even more so at the stasi

@ДмитрийТихомировСССР

10 ай бұрын

What you wrote is a shameless and brazen lie. The Stasi had nothing to do with the Gestapo, there was not a single former Gestapo member. All the Stasi employees were Communists. And the heirs of the Gestapo after the war were the secret services of West Germany. Many former Gestapo members served in the special services of the United States and Germany and, thanks to the fact that they cooperated with their former opponents, they were able to avoid deserved punishment for the crimes they committed during the Third Reich. In the United States, all kinds of scoundrels have always found shelter, which the American special services used for their own purposes, instead of putting them on trial. То, что вы написали - это бесстыдная и наглая ложь. Штази не имела никакого отношения к гестапо, там не было ни одного бывшего гестаповца. Все сотрудники штази были коммунистами. А наследниками гестапо после войны стали спецслужбы западной Германии. Многие бывшие гестаповцы служили в спецслужбах США и ФРГ и, благодаря тому, что пошли на сотрудничество со своими бывшими противниками, они смогли избежать заслуженной кары за преступления, которые они совершили во времена третьего рейха. В США всегда находили приют всевозможные негодяи, которых американские спецслужбы использовали в своих целях, вместо того, чтоб отдать их под суд.

How quaint, I miss the days of being shadowed by a double agent… now they just have to look at your credit card history and your KZread comments and they know everything they need to know.

I cringe when I hear him call East Germany the GDR, when its DDR (Deutsche Demokratisch Republik) & when he called West Germany FRG , When its BRD (Bundes Republik of Deutschland). That's currently United Germany's name & acronym; BRD. One should also note the East German army was called the NVA (National Volks Armee). This last one confuses most Americans who are familiar with the North Vietnamese army being called the NVA by the US Military. Their name was actually the Quân đội Bắc Việ (which I had to copy and paste because trying to type it is harder than trying to pronounce it)

@joanhuffman2166

9 ай бұрын

It is routine for people speaking one language to use different words when referring to other people groups who speak other languages than the words that the others use for themselves. Strange but true.

So you take Soviet KGB, give it German ruthless organization and efficiency and BOOM! Stasi!!

Anyone else hear Mos out of The IT Crowd?

@DavidLLambertmobile

10 ай бұрын

Have you tried turning it on & off?

@gilesa.4052

10 ай бұрын

@@DavidLLambertmobile 🤣

lol

Did you feed an AI with Richard Ayoade's intonation?

You missed Galician, Catalan, Low Saxon, Scots, Sorbian, Wymysorys, Kashubian, Rusyn, Manx, Afrikaans, Elfdalian, Yiddish, Faroese, Tsakonian, Ossetian, i.a. There must be many more, because this is just off the top of my head.

The east was better and clearner and they had the team mindset. Unlike American cops

Narrated by Harry Enfield

I remember East Germany Yet,I wonder ? Are there any former members of the Dreaded & Venerable Stasi still living and defending their Deeds 😮

But they still did not see 1989 coming?

The more alert a government of people, the worse their ancestors are currently getting it somewhere else-

They had a great model to base itself…. Gestapo

Why do I feel this is France to some angles?

The Stasi tried to stop the disco bombing.

@noneofyourbusiness3553

10 ай бұрын

Doubt it... Where is your proof?

@oldmanc2

10 ай бұрын

@@noneofyourbusiness3553 Jack Koehler's book on the Stasi. Not a definitive source, but the story he tells in there is plausible to me.

@noneofyourbusiness3553

10 ай бұрын

@@oldmanc2 Its nice to see that you have a source, even within its limitations. There certainly is not a shortage of people that are busy spouting road apples without thought or source these days. ...and I have no shortage of cynicism for those that claim to have some sort of authority and claim to be incorruptible.

@oldmanc2

10 ай бұрын

@@noneofyourbusiness3553 Quite a good book. I was in Berlin for the first timr in November 1989. I wish I'd had a video camera to record history....unbelievable to see the Wall come down live

@noneofyourbusiness3553

10 ай бұрын

@@oldmanc2 I remember but, wasn't there. It sure was an exciting time even from afar.

Don't turn around Der Kommisar's in town 🎶

Great documentary......However, the commentator needs to slow down to allow information to be digested!

The administration did a pretty impressive job running this shit without computer support.

They were more evil, than the GeStaPo...

You forgot the Securitate from Romania ☝️ one disapeared without a trace.. definitiv...your place: some anonymous massgraves..thats it ☝️

Stasi was incredibly based, real German socialist efficiency

Yeah sure.... nice sources btw, I smell cap.

6:21

My dad was a Stasi officer. He was very proud of his work and did a lot of good. Miss you dad

@strfltcmnd.9925

5 ай бұрын

Good for who? Communism has never done anything good for anybody.

I had fears that the East German troops would cross the border and attack West Germany. Almighty God spared us the trouble.

@grundgesetzart.1463

10 ай бұрын

Had they done that we would now not have millions of Arabs, Africans and Turks here. I'm not sure if that would have been so bad, if the GDR was running this entire place.

@jeudieleslavavelasquez8410

9 ай бұрын

​@@grundgesetzart.1463Nah, just your Joo overlords.

Heroes of the FBI.

But with the Stasi, nothing is impossible when it comes to intelligence gathering and they would even monitor what each East German citizen was eating in terms of food and drink so talk about the most efficient secret police force is no joke and if anyone screwed around with them then god help those people who crossed paths with the Stasi. Even though the Stasi have officially disbanded when the Berlin Wall collapsed, it would not surprise if some of the Stasi were operating independently but since these guys have covered their tracks so well before and after the Stasi were formed, they know how to escape from sticky situations.

Not even Google!

The stasi was no more different then from the gestapo

The Securitate in Romania killed a lot more people and were a lot more feared.

Yes and how familiar i

@rudranilghosh2187

11 ай бұрын

I am an Indian. This incident is familiar to me.

How many were 3ver brought to justice?

Sounds a lot like INGSOC...

Sounds like the FBI

Thank god they didn't have the kentler project tho ngl