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After Fink's Stasi connections came to light, he was summarily fired. Doctors, lawyers, journalists, writers, actors, and sports figures were co-opted by Stasi officers, as were waiters and hotel personnel. Tapping about 100,000 telephone lines in East Germany and West Berlin around the clock was the job of 2,000 officers...
The Stasi identity card of Vladimir Putin, who worked in Dresden as a KGB liaison officer to the Stasi [14] Although Mielke's Stasi was superficially granted independence in 1957, the KGB continued to maintain liaison officers in all eight main Stasi directorates at the Stasi headquarters and in each of the fifteen district headquarters around ...
[11] [12] The head of the Stasi Erich Mielke was also the president of SV Dynamo. [12] It became publicly known in 2011 that also the incumbent president of football club 1. FC Union Berlin Dirk Zingler was a member of the Felix Dzerzhinsky Guards Regiment for three years during his military service. Dirk Zingler has explained that he had ...
BERLIN (Reuters) -A former officer for Communist East Germany's Stasi secret police was sentenced to 10 years in prison on Monday for the fatal shooting of a Polish firefighter at a border ...
Stasi FC is a 2023 Sky Documentary about Stasi control over association football in East Germany from the late 1970s, allegedly leading to their preferred team, football club Berliner FC Dynamo, winning ten consecutive league titles. It is directed by Daniel Gordon and Arne Birkenstock and produced by Erik Winker.
The funeral of Paul Anlauf and Franz Lenck was attended by thousands of Berliners The funeral of the murdered police officers. In front Magnus Heimannsberg, Albert Grzesinski and Bernhard Weiß The funeral of the murdered police officers 1933 pictures of the suspects. Erich Mielke is in the top row far right.
Wolfgang Schwanitz (26 June 1930 – 1 February 2022) was a German intelligence official, who was the last head of the Stasi, the East German secret police.It was officially renamed the "Office for National Security" on 17 November 1989.
The chief of the Stasi, Erich Mielke (Dietrich Körner), disagrees. In a conversation with Stasi officer Erwin Hull (Martin Wuttke), Mielke expresses sympathy for the RAF's terrorist attacks against West German and U.S. targets, which he compares to his own similar activities during both the Weimar Republic and the Nazi regime. He orders Agent ...