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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 ...
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:
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 ...
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 ...
Wehrkraftzersetzung is composed of three parts: Wehr means 'defence' (a cognate of the English word "war"); kraft means power, force, strength; zersetzung means decay, decomposition, disintegration, dissolving (especially by acids), but also subversion or corruption.
The two men were on trial with three other rugby players, two of whom were also found guilty of rape on Friday. All five men were once teammates together at FC Grenoble.
Pages in category "Stasi" The following 21 pages are in this category, out of 21 total. ... Zersetzung This page was last edited on 28 February 2024, at 01:21 (UTC). ...