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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 ...
Zersetzung was designed to side-track and "switch off" perceived enemies so that they would lose the will to continue any "inappropriate" activities. [n 1] Anyone who was judged to display politically, culturally, or religiously incorrect attitudes could be viewed as a "hostile-negative" [38] force and targeted with Zersetzung methods. For this ...
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").
3 More references in Stasi article. 1 comment. 4 Zersetzung-Proof People. ... 1 comment. 6 'Alo. 1 comment. 7 The accusation vs. the methods of Zersetzung. 1 comment ...
A former member of communist East Germany's secret police has been charged with murder over the killing of a Polish national at a border crossing in divided Berlin in 1974, prosecutors said Thursday.
The Stasi had 90,000 full-time employees who were assisted by 170,000 full-time unofficial collaborators (Inoffizielle Mitarbeiter); together these made up 1 in 63 (nearly 2%) of the entire East German population. Together with these, a much larger number of occasional informers brought up the total to 1 per 6.5 persons.
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 ...
The phrase Stasi 2.0 is the catchphrase of a civil rights campaign in Germany. The term originated in the blogosphere, combining the name of East Germany's former Ministry of State Security, commonly known as the "Stasi", with the concept of software versioning as used in the popular phrase "Web 2.0". The implication is that Stasi 2.0 is the ...