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Directive No. 1/76 on the Development and Revision of Operational Procedures, which outlined the use of Zersetzung in the Ministry for State Security. The Ministry for State Security (German: Ministerium für Staatssicherheit, MfS), commonly known as the Stasi, was the main security service of the German Democratic Republic (East Germany or GDR), and defined Zersetzung in its 1985 dictionary ...
It had secret police, commonly referred to as the Stasi, which made use of an extensive network of civilian informers. [30] From the 1970's, the main form of political, cultural and religious repression practiced by the Stasi, was a form of 'silent repression' [31] called Zersetzung ("Decomposition").
Zersetzung methods were applied and further developed in a "creative and differentiated" [39] manner based upon the specific person being targeted i.e. they were tailored based upon the target's psychology and life situation. [40] Tactics employed under Zersetzung usually involved
3 More references in Stasi article. 1 comment. 4 Zersetzung-Proof People. ... 10 Page move to Zersetzung (decomposition) 1 comment. 11 Requested move 27 September 2021.
The Stasi would often identify refusal to collaborate, using another jargon term, as "enemy-negative conduct" ("feindlich-negative Haltung"), which frequently resulted in what they termed "Zersetzungsmaßnahmen", a term for which no very direct English translation is available, but for one form of which a definition has been provided that begins:
Wehrkraftzersetzung death sentence issued by the People's Court on 8 September 1943 against Dr. Alois Geiger for defeatism. Wehrkraftzersetzung or Zersetzung der Wehrkraft (German for "corroding of defensive strength") was a sedition offence in German military law during the Nazi Germany era from 1938 to 1945.
By the late 1970s, the Stasi had moved from overt persecution to a programme of psychological harassment known as Zersetzung. The goal was the "fragmentation, paralysis, disorganization, and isolation of the hostile and negative forces, in order to preventatively impede the hostile and negative activities" of political opponents.
People of the Stasi (3 C, 2 P) W. Works about the Stasi (9 P) ... Zersetzung This page was last edited on 28 February 2024, at 01:21 (UTC). Text is available under ...