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Stasi Museum

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Stasi Museum
Stasi Museum
Stasi Museum
Stasi Museum
Stasi Museum
Stasi Museum
Stasi Museum
Stasi Museum
Stasi Museum
Stasi Museum
Stasi Museum
Stasi Museum
Stasi Museum
Stasi Museum
Stasi Museum
Stasi Museum
Stasi Museum
Stasi Museum
Stasi Museum
Stasi Museum
Stasi Museum
Stasi Museum
Stasi Museum
Stasi Museum
Phone:
+49 30 5536854

Hours:
Sunday11am - 6pm
Monday10am - 6pm
Tuesday10am - 6pm
Wednesday10am - 6pm
Thursday10am - 6pm
Friday10am - 6pm
Saturday11am - 6pm


The Ministry for State Security or State Security Service , commonly known as the Stasi , was the official state security service of the German Democratic Republic . It has been described as one of the most effective and repressive intelligence and secret police agencies ever to have 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 , referring to the ruling Socialist Unity Party of Germany and also echoing a theme of the KGB, the Soviet counterpart and close partner, with respect to its own ruling party, the CPSU. Erich Mielke was the Stasi's longest-serving chief, in power for thirty-two of the GDR's forty years of existence. One of its main tasks was spying on the population, mainly through a vast network of citizens turned informants, and fighting any opposition by overt and covert measures, including hidden psychological destruction of dissidents . Its Main Directorate for Reconnaissance was responsible for both 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. 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 laid open, so that any citizen could inspect their personal file on request; these files are now maintained by the Federal Commissioner for the Stasi Records.
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