TY  - BOOK
AU  - CHILDS David
AU  - POPPLEWELL Richard
TI  - The Stasi: the East German intelligence and security service
SN  - 0333630947 (hbk.)
PY  - 1996///
CY  - Basingstoke
PB  - Macmillan
KW  - EAST GERMANY
KW  - INTELLIGENCE SERVICES
KW  - SECRET POLICE
KW  - STASI
N2  - The Stasi was among the most successful (and the most feared) spy organisations in world during the Cold War. This book tells the story of the Stasi from its origins in the dreaded Soviet Cheka to its abolition in 1989. At the height of its activity there were informers in every school, hospital, factory, military unit, and church in East Germany. Stasi chief General Mielke boasted that husbands and wives informed on each other. One of the factors said to have contributed to the downfall of the DDR was the degree to which the state and its security services (the Stasi) had become divorced from reality by a high degree of centralisation and ideological motivation
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