The STASI: the fearsome POLITICAL POLICE that OVERCAME the KGB - VisualPolitik EN
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After the Second World War, Germany was divided into two states: in the West the Federal Republic of Germany, built as another Western democracy; in the East, the German Democratic Republic, a communist dictatorship in the mould of the Kremlin.
In other words, in addition to being separated, the two Germanies were also at odds with each other. They had two completely opposite political models. The Berlin Wall was in fact the symbol of this division. A barrier that was erected to prevent the citizens of the GDR from fleeing to the West. But that was not the only action of the communist regime to control the population.
They also created the so-called Ministry for State Security, better known to all as the Stasi. One of the best intelligence services in the world, a kind of secret police or spy corps dedicated to locating the enemies of the state within the GDR and also to fighting the enemies of communism abroad. In this video we tell you all the details of one of the most fearsome security forces of all times.
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After the revolution in 1989, Erich Mielke, chief of the Stasi, was incarcerated in his own prison. He complained about the bad conditions there. No joke.
Can confirm. It's a sophisticated level of irony
@Darren Mohamed Yeah, let us all become spies on each other.
GREAT initiative to encourage on a documentary showing the horrendous effects of spying well done.
Basic communist thinking.
Hes not complain he was cried and shit in pants.
A taste of his own medicine...karma.
I remember reading about an interview with a old man who had lived through both the Nazis and the Communists. When asked which was worst, the Gestapo or the Stasi, he said, “The Gestapo wanted you to think that they were everywhere; the Stasi actually were.”
Stasi tactics seem to now be embraced by the Dems
lol
At 1:26, he says the Stasi were one of the best intelligence services in the world. I immediately imagine them tearfully accepting an award at the annual Intellys. It's just so nice to be recognized by your peers
LMFAO
When I lived in Frankfurt I was notified that the Stasi was going after my friend to lure me back to come back to East Germany. I had mentioned in a letter I was homesick. They copied all my letters I wrote home. I lost my homesick is fast.
“The highest art of warfare is not to fight at all but to subvert anything of value in the country of your enemy until such time that the perception of reality of your enemy is screwed up to such an extent that he does not perceive you as an enemy.”
The Art of War...
Penned by Klaus Schwab?
Look up Yuri
Every Russia stan
Explains why Hollywood is fuuucked.
I highly recommend "The Lives of Others" if you are interested in the Stasi methods.
"Das Leben der Anderen"- great movie :)
And Der Baader Meinhof Komplex.
Anohter excellent film on te subject is GUNDERMANN. He was a brown coal miner in the DDR who was also a singer and developed a popular band. He was co-opted by the Stasi to report on others, and the film deals with him both as a person cooperating with the Stasi and as a person who as subject to reporting by others.
I'm working at the Stasi Archive, among others in the reconstruction of files. Thank you, for this great video, it will be a great introduction to my work for my non-german friends. Keep up the awesome work! 👍
As an archivist here in the USA, I'd love to spend just one day at your office!
Are you Stazi????
Fun fact members of the stasi work for Facebook in Germany today
Sarcasm or for real?
@@whatsgoingon92 For real. Google Anetta Kahane
Considering a significant portion of the entire population of east germany worked for the Stasi in the first place...
'Fun'??
Not the best choice of word there in fairness.
@@Sionnach1601 Don't take it literally.
I like these historical visualpolitik videoes keep it coming
🔯 Stasi 🔯
All that internet monitoring, cameras everywhere and AI survillence must been terrible. Oh wait...
LMFAO
"Looked for handsome folks..."
Well, that's why I was never hired 😋
One of the most common practices was a method called " Versetzung" which means ' decomposition'. STASI agents would break into a 'suspects' apartment and do such things as retuning radios, setting alarm clocks to random times, moving pictures, rearranging clothes in wardrobes, hiding or removing small items. The effect would be to unsettle people's minds, place suspicion on other family members, and generally give people complexes about being watched.
And of course, husband reported wife, wife reported husband, children reported teachers, nobody was above suspicion in the eyes of the STASI!
Zersetzung is what it's called
@@gangstalkingtv I just call them lowlife's....
Funny that people tend to think that the "best" secret service is one that is well-known to the public and is famous for its practices.
Actually the fact that people knew about or at least suspected the capabilities of the Stasi actually helped with the suppression of the people. So at least in that regard they were the best.
@@maximilianneumeyer2971
Did it help? Not really.
Bingo.
Being totally unknown would make the Stasi worse in their primary mission of suppressing unrest. They actually intentionally cultivated a climate of fear. Like making people understand that even their family members may be spying on them.
@@CArnoldi1
The primary mission of the Stasi in East Germany was to find Western spies.
Any methods of suppression didn't have to become public. They could just send the police to do the dirty work or they could disguise themselves as police.
Imagine if social medias existed back then
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VPN's would skyrocket in usage and price even further than today
They censor everything today anyway. So much for democracy..
This is actually amazing that I've seen a video about the Stasi because I really want more people to talk about them more because that means they did a really good job at not being known all that well
If your local political party has their very own branch of police, you know you are in trouble.
FBI COINTELPRO is literally the same thing.
@@gangstalkingtv I am a COINTELPRO victim in Bato Rouge, Louisiana. Citizens, FAMILY are sacrificing each other worst then animals for incentives.
It is amazing that they're able to piece together those destroyed documents. There's still many more to go, but the are doing a lot of work.
After reunification, the former practice of “unofficial coworkers/ informers” ended many marriages once citizens were given access to their own personal files.
If you want to fully appreciate the insidious capabilities of the STASI, you need to read up on Zersetzung operations.
The FBI is trying to outdue them for biggest troll in history
What's up early crew
Not early
Great video after work
Stasi officials also advised secret police forces in countries like Angola and Ethiopia during the Cold War. In their training of their African counterparts, they emphasized the keeping of detailed written records. Sound familiar?
And they went on to sweep the world with their TV hit, 'Dancing with the Stasi'.
After 31 years - not very actual! ...and many things to short almost wrong. Stasi was not best, but many! It was illegal to not work in GDR. Best saying from Brandt in his last speech : Nothing comes from itself and nothing remains the same.
No Gestapo, only Stasi.
Soviet’s leader we have kissed...
We walled up our western borders
To prevent our people’s flight
@@ryanvelez6367if you visit follow orders
Stick to checkpoints and behave
Im sure all world governments are doing this at this point.
Correct.
Socialst mentalities do not disapear with a name or regime change
Spy "... But ze secretary iz male..."
Boss: "Gut! looks like you are ze gay now."
Do you really believe in a communist country were both men and women worked the same and both got education they wouldnt find women for this task?
This sounds more of a problem for western spy agencies considering the women in western countries were for decades basically just housewives.
I just finished reading two books about the Wrumbrands in Romania. Their secret police operated in many similar ways.
german historian here:
In the DDR and espacilly the Stasi some things happend, which are not just unimagnible to us today but very reminicant of the nazi era:
For example radioactiv "Markierung" of prisoners and diplomats - Codename "Wolke"
- All types of beatings etc.
- Financing and protecting the "RAF" a terrorist organisation accountable for multiple high profile political and economical murders
The great thing about the DDR it is all still here for us to see, not bombed but embeded in modern day Germany.
If you ever have the chance to come to Berlin ensure to take a tour into Berlins secret underground tunnel network, cold war bunkers and spy tunnels
No city was as hot during the cold war as Berlin trust me and many of us still remember the tyranny
The DDR is the prime example of a distopian orwellian society, imprisioning the entirety of its own population
The use of exotic tacktics relying on rf mind influences and radioactive substances is under reported in my view.
have you ever heared about Securitate? Romanian secret service
"All communications were monitored. The Statsi read letters and monitored telephone conversations." Kind of reminded me of the NSA monitoring the US citizens (and the rest of world) with their special courts to get "warrants" to spy on them.
Yes, freedom in the US is nearly dead.
Yet they still failed to stop terrorist attacks. The problem with surveillance by algorithms is that they are not good with abstract thinking. While field agents can filter out unnecessary information, the machine just keeps piling up more and more raw data. Electronic surveillance seem to be more efficient in censorship intimidation than anti terrorism.
@@lisalph8922 the FBI is a threat to democracy
Nsa combined with FBI COINTELPRO
now, you have an example in north korea, state capitalism with slaves, well monitored
*what if we use 100% of our brain power*
Morgan Freeman: We steal people's underwear to be able to track 'em.
*_When I was a student I sent to my penfriend in the DDR some of the finest color photographs developed at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. My uncle was a rocket scientist there and the photos were large pictures of American astronauts involved in various activities in space. A couple of weeks later the photos were returned to me and my penfriend got a visit from the Stasi. I remember being shocked that they would open my envelope and worse, behaved so dumb as to find photos of astronauts so objectionable._*
Are you female??? you dont need to answer....
I remember when the truth about Ohnesorg's death came out- so the Stasi orchestrated the murder of the student by one of their own agents, provoke a student revolution through people like Ensslin [whose quote here would be nuts if one didn't know it was a tactic], and then fund the resulting terrorist struggle. Goddamn that's beautiful.
Beno Ohnesorg, a student in West Berlin, was shot by a West Berlin policeman who was also a Stasi Mitarbeiter, but I was not aware that the killing was directed by the Stasi. My understanding was that it was along the lines of a stressed or frightened cop pulling the trigger.
The Ministerium für Staatssicherheit did not just spy on the west that was just one department of the Stasi, Stasi also ran the border guards and handled internal security of the DDR. Contrary to popular belief the Stasi only had limited freedom to pursue it's own interests, it was still slavishly devoted to the NKVD/MGB KGB that lasted till 1989, the Stasi almost always asked the Luybanka for advice and for technical and operational support, in fact more so than in any other Warsaw pact country the Chekists were basically given free reign within the DDR they were above the law, see Vladimir Putin's biography about his time in the DDR.
Interesting and very informative as always.
There is currently a global Stasi doing the same things fyi
And then, just as today, the employed radio frequencies to alter peoples state of mind =\
Great video
stasi agents conducting search and interrogating nervous citizens
*electronic music sounds in the background*
"Stasi" by John G. Koehler is a fantastic read.....I know, its a book....
Perhaps one person will get something out of this but I'm going through something like this right now and I'm right here in the good old US of A. The Stasi had a reputation of being the most powerful and effective police force ever because it wasn't just about surveillance it was about what they could do to you psychologically which is far worse than what they could do to you physically and they figured that out. Guess what, so has this country.
I was a whistleblower and I'm not likely to be able to read my file. What I tried to expose was corruption on a local scale but it turns out that all governments cover for each other and people are connected. What happens to you when the program known as organized stalking harassment is you experience a social death and in order to make sure of that your communications are all filtered and you can't go anywhere without somebody being right there with you they will interfere with any of your relationships or perspective relationships; jobs and perspective jobs; and since you're followed 24/7 there's nothing they won't know about you. You will experience total isolation except for when they try and send confederates at you.
The true aim is to have you take your own life or to make you so miserable that you just curl up into a ball and wither away. I understand that none of this makes sense to any of you but it's a warning and the program is in its infancy and something that they're going to unleash on the public so just keep it in the back of your mind. You would think would see plethora of platforms that I should be able to get some word out there but some cognitive issues and they do things that are designed just to waste your time and keep you busy with whatever crisis they come up with and there will always be one. Just keep in mind they are aware of wherever you are and whatever you're doing.
So the Stasi had the "Parriot Act"?
Way worse.
Mielke deserved to be in his own prison.
Imperial Inquisition:
"Cute. So pedantic. Can we recruit these men?"
Just for Information; the WWII Gestapo-prisoners were used after being captured by the Soviets to create the Stasi-system.
You only scraped the surface.
I don't know why I'm thinking about US right now.
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11:55 Here's the whole story with Otto Bohl:
content.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1901516,00.html
Essentially he WASN'T ordered by the Stasi to start a riot by shooting someone. The Stasi considered it an "unlucky accident". They also broke contact with him after that. This makes sense, the guy had access to plenty of important information which he sold to the Stasi. He was useful to them. Also, the Stasi could have just left the West Germans to radicalise their own students by supporting oppressive leaders.
I'm proud , that as a German American my country the USA was instrumental in destroying this oppressive regime
There is one element here that I do not understand: The absence of personal and physical revenge by those who were spied/informed/snitched upon. Perhaps I am looking across the cultural divide of German vs. the US, but I am confident that if it had been Americans who were the subject of reporting that disrupted their marriages, occupations, and educational possibilities some would have extracted pay-back in the form of .45 caliber or 9-millimeter cartridges. I am not aware that anyone has been physically attacked by someone on whom they were reporting on in the former East Germany. In the words of Sherlock Holmes, "Why is this dog not barking?"
Any psychological or sociological insights out there?
Received many letters from the DDR to the U.S. in the 80s. Never opened or tampered with.
Unfortunate that those spies were never "dealt with".
Only if you do it yourself
Worst part is people still prefer social control with a "stable economy" over freedom
I think the economy of eastern Germany is stable now, but I have read the "eastalgia" is still very real and many eastern germans feel like second class citizens as they are disadvantaged on job market. Also companies from former west germany bought eastern competitors and let them go bankrupt so they don't have competition.
This theme song just isn’t the same without the accelerator pump and v8 engine noises at the end
Must be a tough call to be the Stasi bureaucrat in charge of deciding when to destroy the files. Too early, the DDR survives and you get executed for undermining state authority. Too late, and you fail your duty to the state... Though the latter course is the safe one if the state falls.
"Left of what we call Left, today" 🙄
That didn't age well......😑
Huh funny how history repeats it self.......
Saudi Arabia has that things but today
Love the videos!
-"How much do you hate communists?"
-"Yes."
Calm down with the endless cut music... super distracting
Brilliant !
"No Gestapo only Stasi"
Deutsche Qualität KGB
Nice
BTW, you should do a cooking show
Fascinating!
great subject
Learning about New South Wales anti journalism police force here!
Great Choice of music 😂😂😂
It was the 60s. There were even protests in japan.
What are the Names of the songs in video?
The Stasi also used former Gestapo employees
Anyone knows what the song that they use is?
Karl- Heinz Kurras - STASI: collaborator .
I’m pretty confident that China loves this video 🤔
Liberals today: "Communism hasnt been properly tried." It's only been tried 27 times
NSA=Stasi
Likely the entire govt working together.
Coming to an America near you.
It's global bro
An irony of history is that today the SED (now called PDS) is in power in Thuringia, a state in former East Germany.
They haven’t been called PDS for 15 years.
@@MoLauer Partially you are right, since 13 years the SED aka PDS calls itself "Die Linke". And of lot of Stasi people have made careers in this political party.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Left_(Germany)
@@tomtom2806 ist mir bewusst
Fire
Completely unimportant:
Is it:
The influence of die Stasi (Nomantive/Accusative)
The influence of der Stasi (Dative)
The influence der Stasi (Genitive)
This really bothers me ^^
"Der Einfluss von der Stasi" or "Der Einfluss der Stasi" would be correct in German.
They are mostly using it correctly nevertheless. In English it's just "the influence of the Stasi"
Your German btw seems to be extraordinary, if you are not a native speaker.
Angela Merkle was a GDR operative (thats why she is so smart).
Third
Genitive
Der Einfluss der Stasi or
Der Einfluss des Ministeriums für Staatssicherheit if you want to make it longer
We can now add the FBI & NSA to this list.
💯
...... _Faster than a Tiktok video_ OMG! That's so funny
Good report,but l can do without the annoying music 😂
Bring Simon back!!
I think this time he did very well!
And now the stasi works for private, so much better
Lol my German family Otto Bohl
1:46 nice track! Mind sharing, what it is? :)
4:12 is also nice.
Shouldn't it be pretty easy with AI tech to solve the puzzle? AI seems to be much better in simple pattern recognition than humans.
BTW: nice video :)
but first you have to digitize it
Sure, but seems the easier part to me
Fraunhofer Society did actually develop an AI based system to do exactly this, funded by taxpayer money between 2003 and 2013. They also have been awarded a prize for their software: th-cam.com/video/4s2J7qsNu9Q/w-d-xo.html
However, manually arranging and scanning both sides of the pieces has been proven to be very laborious and expensive, and this step is still waiting to be automated.
In eight years, 23 bags of torn pieces have been scanned and 11 of them have been successfully reconstructed, which didn’t really match the target of 400 bags.
As 15000 bags are still waiting, the federal audit office criticised the results and asserted that the technology weren’t cost-effective to recover the files within reasonable time. However, it’s “just” the “easy” scanning process which has been proven to be very hard.
The developed software “ePuzzler” is still useful: it is routinely being used by customs officers for crime investigations and by a few projects to reconstruct historical documents also benefited from it.
Also the German federal reserve Bundesbank recently started using this software to reconstruct damaged bank notes: if notes weren’t intentionally damaged and one can present more than 50% of each note, the Bundesbank is replacing those notes by new ones. For example, if your apartment burned down and you recovered partially damaged notes or grandma gifted two notes via mail and you accidentally missed one of them in the envelope before shredding it: on request, a special department of Bundesbank reassembles such bills for free and replaces them with new ones. The developed software does simplify this recovery process a lot.
Super Karen
Constantly confused by you guys using the acronym GDR... please use the proper DDR in future videos, thanks.
why
its GDR in english
You should always talk about "die sogenannte DDR" or "so-called GDR". Because there was nothing democratic or republican about this fascist state.
@0:40 you say "After the second world war Germany was *artificially* divided into two states." All states are constructs. How would Germany "Naturally" be divided. To say it was divided is clear enough, no need to say "artificially". The victors of the war divided Germany. Nothing artificial about it.
The quality of your videos has taken a dive for the past few months... wonder what has changed
The incarnation of the phrase "better dead than red."
Now for intros we have to place biden for trump (animation)
Title says "that OVERCAME the KGB". Video mentions nothing of the sort. Nice clickbait!...
Stasi 👏👏👏
I doubt that Brandt was a drunk and womanizer.
We can only hope the people of North Korea, China and Russia would have truth come to light as well.
I'm not sure about North Korea, but I doubt that people in China and Russia would care about the truth as much. To them, economic development and total national strength are more important.
As the Russian myself, I'm laughing right now, reading these words. In Russia we live in one of the most free country in the world. I personally invite you and your family members to visit Russia. Go and see for yourself, how much freedom do we enjoy. And take your friends too, don't be a stranger. All you need is to ask for more details in the nearest Russian consulate.
@@user-tk8gi5cl6j I've heard two reports of ppl escaping gangstalking in Russia. Do you guys have gangstalking.
@@gangstalkingtv The police is protecting us against criminal activities. We don't have any gangs strolling around streets in the middle of the day. You can go in the main streets in the middle of midnight and nothing will happen to you. That's because we have relatively low crime rates in Russia.
@@user-tk8gi5cl6j >relatively
You guys have a similar murder rate to america. No, you’re not that safe lmao
I doubt they'd go for it, but maybe they could hire the Iranians. Iran reconstructed thousands of shredded documents after they took over the US embassy.