Significats de stasi secret en anglès

The notorious Stasi secret police penetrated all areas of life.

In East Germany, for instance, the Stasi secret police were closely involved in doping programs.

But the dual legacies of the Nazis and East Germany's Stasi secret police make security crackdowns sensitive matters.

Though the files are now yellowed and brittle, the appalling fascination of 40 years of Stasi secrets remains undiminished.

Barbara Poenisch is piecing together a mountain of documents torn up by the hated East German Stasi secret police.

A quarter century ago, officers of East Germany's Stasi secret police worked around the clock to destroy decades of files.

A visitor leaves an exhibit of an office room inside Stasi secret police museum in Berlin October 24, 2013.

Revelations from Snowden that Washington monitored Merkel's phone enraged many Germans who are sensitive to surveillance due to abuses by East Germany's Stasi secret police.

But now he regularly unlocks his old cell door to show tourists what life was like in a jail run by the Stasi secret police.