DW-TV reporter Georg Matthes is searching through the files of the former East German secret police.
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@Bulletguy073 жыл бұрын
I met an East German guy who accessed his Stasi file......only to find his own sister had been an informant. He's never spoke to her since.
@notmyname21703 жыл бұрын
Oh wow...Do you happen to know more about it?
@JAF13233 жыл бұрын
That’s horrible. It’s insane what people will do when they’re in that much fear. I heard a story about someone who was very active in the east German resistance. After the wall came down, she found out that her own husband was an informant. She had been arrested several times and had had a lot of stuff happened to her because of the fact that she was in the resistance. At that time, she never knew who was spying on her. I can’t imagine finding out that someone you were close to was spying on you. In other communist countries, parents turned In children and children and their parents. It seems to be that the desire to keep yourself alive outweighs everything else in that kind of a situation. I feel badly for the guy who found out that his sister was in forming on him, as do why the wife who found out that her husband was informing on her.
@filippocorti67603 жыл бұрын
Interesting
@theinfeno3 жыл бұрын
I honestly can't blame someone never talking to a sibling or spouse if they where a Stasi informant. I never even lived under this kind of tyranny, at least not yet. I just feel like murder would be justified for being a Stasi and betraying your friends for the sake of the state. The whole thing is just evil, in a way like not other.
@DivinitySaid3 жыл бұрын
@@theinfeno - i liked this, then thought... should i like this? damnit America. Now i gotta go suffer through some liberal drab to correct my social algorithm. ❤️🤍💙
@casualagent72503 жыл бұрын
The movie, Lives of Others is a must watch, especially the last scene 😢
@lovelessissimo6 жыл бұрын
In English, "Stasi" is roughly translated as "Facebook".
@wictoriaolofsson27144 жыл бұрын
Facebook Mossads lol 😂🤣
@svenfigueroa3124 жыл бұрын
menckencynic and add all those “suicides” thanks to facebook...
@aabb-zz9uw4 жыл бұрын
No."South Korea" is an exact translation. The centralised video surveillance network was copied in digital form by Korea.
@Dweller4154 жыл бұрын
😂😂😂😂
@annettehadley97183 жыл бұрын
Goodness... I never knew that !
@Ffsdevgj3 жыл бұрын
There are no words to describe the horrific and despicable acts of evil that all this represents. Some Humans are like truly monsters.
@kipperedbeef20843 жыл бұрын
ya I'm about to defect lol
@peterhansa67052 жыл бұрын
There are apparently still so many Stasi Officers - even those that committed horrendous torture and crimes - free and never got prosecuted. Seems majority did not even care about those perpetrators. This must be unbearable for the victims.
@Dutch_Uncle2 жыл бұрын
DEUTSCH: Gibt es Faelle wo Stasiopfer den Stasiispitzel ermoerdert haben? Oder angegriffen? I got my Stasi file, and it tells more about them than it does about me. They were convinced that I was up to something, and lack of evidence was not persuasive, it just seemed to push them more. I did not suffer. It is irritating, but there I am prserved for eternity in the Stasiakten. However, I am amazed that none of the German subjects seem to have reacted violently against those who betrayed them. Has anyone heard about informants being killed or injured by those they reported on? Seen through US eyes, I am amazed that there is no body count.
@mlovmo9 ай бұрын
Same in Cambodia. Cadres who tortured and murdered during the time of "Democratic Kampuchea" are walking around unpunished.
@About37HobosАй бұрын
And the USA, China, and most modern countries have just as much information on their citizens with digital surveillance and nobody seems to care
@mikekannely22868 ай бұрын
I wish that this history was taught in college.
@jekke19806 жыл бұрын
Who needs the Stasi when you have facebook?
@kirstinetermansen72345 жыл бұрын
Hi hi funny. Are you You wash mashined, tv, or car might even know more
@wictoriaolofsson27144 жыл бұрын
..or your smartphone! 😂
@user-xd4rs6vr4n4 жыл бұрын
you mean "lifelog"?
@andrewmcphee89654 жыл бұрын
So true...Facebook holds all the secrets of your life, if you let it.
@snicky584 жыл бұрын
Good point.
@stevedemarest276 Жыл бұрын
Even THIS was overcome. It's a testament to the human desire for liberty.
@Mrpublicimagelimited10 жыл бұрын
That elevator @ 4:04 has to be one of the most dangerous-looking contraptions I've ever seen..
@patrickilmoni93808 жыл бұрын
It looks a lot more terrible than it actually is, theres a crude safety-mechanism that stops it immediately if the whole gizmo gets stuck somewhere by somethin or someone. But.. I wouldnt want to test it personnally :D One can sometimes still find those I cant remember what their called, in old department stores personnel areas and some offices.
@henkiware24907 жыл бұрын
they are called paternoster.
@patrickilmoni93807 жыл бұрын
Henkiware2 Yep, Thanks !
@keijo82386 жыл бұрын
It's safe when used with common sense
@touraneindanke5 жыл бұрын
Your Prioriteit is questionable 🍌
@OffGridInvestor2 жыл бұрын
And 2 YEARS LATER they started reassembling those shredded documents. There's now (2019ish) computer software around that does it in incredibly fast time.
@lesliesmith35807 жыл бұрын
So pleased that there is an agency/archives for people to find out (if they choose) about the torture/sadistic behaviour and lies the Stasi inflicted. I hope knowing the truth for the former prisoners empowers them
@ezrathegreatconqueror4 жыл бұрын
Leslie Smith Long live Stasi
@thomashall48863 жыл бұрын
@@ezrathegreatconqueror Idiotic comment
@dalegribble1560 Жыл бұрын
STASI is an example why the 2nd Amendment exists in America.
@_Abra_Kadabra_3 жыл бұрын
Shouldn't we, more importantly, have the right to access the files that exist on us all TODAY?
@jimpickins7900 Жыл бұрын
If you live in the EU or UK, Australia, newzealand, or Canada you can.
@innocentdissident4414 жыл бұрын
Funny how history repeats itself.
@caroleannhowell616411 жыл бұрын
Imagine if they would have had today;s technology. So this is what we have to look forward to and worse.
@poodtang21044 жыл бұрын
That boat has already sailed.
@TheWarsuron3 жыл бұрын
It is still going on today, but nw they are using brain interfacing tech
@inserthere63873 жыл бұрын
So true
@marajevomanash2 жыл бұрын
They can manipulate entire populations into systematically stalking and harassing you using remote mind-control technology and AI.
@Dutch_Uncle2 жыл бұрын
A major reason why East Germany failed as that the wall did not stop radio or television waves. My call is that the diversity of modern electronics would have hastened the fall.
@natnik279 жыл бұрын
"All man-made big disasters started with one mad man's obsession with money and power and his ability to corrupt others". Marin Pitu
@wictoriaolofsson27144 жыл бұрын
Yeep the rise of the Kapitalist state..
@ct-xw9dj4 жыл бұрын
Wictoria Olofsson Isn’t the stasi work against the capitalist?
@TheWarsuron3 жыл бұрын
@@wictoriaolofsson2714 corporatist
@TheWarsuron3 жыл бұрын
@@ct-xw9dj yes they were communists
@MrHarryt811 жыл бұрын
Very interesting information on this despicable organisation.
@uradragon78233 жыл бұрын
We have our own despicable organization here in America, it is a copy of the Stasi. Look up DHS/Walmart and ask yourself if it stopped at one box store.
@rnj4209 Жыл бұрын
?
@nemesisferrari8537 Жыл бұрын
So do you believe Stasi dead in 1991 ? No, no , no alike energy, they got transformed
@GardenerEarthGuy2 жыл бұрын
To think that the U.S. government hasn't taken this to a much higher level is to be drinking koolaid.
@mike2uleynomad3754 жыл бұрын
5:52 - "blacking out parts of the document that has nothing to do with the applicant". Why? If the dossier has your name on it you should be able to read it in its full entirety.
@casualagent72503 жыл бұрын
I concur
@lani66472 жыл бұрын
What if you get angry about something written there and go postal
@Dutch_Uncle2 жыл бұрын
Youl can read YOUR information, but not that about others , except the ones who re;orted on you.
@halitosis75 Жыл бұрын
Fascinating doco
@marksmith51064 ай бұрын
Perhaps one person will get something out of this but I'm going through something like this right now and I'm right here in the good old US of A. The Stasi had a reputation of being the most powerful and effective police force ever because it wasn't just about surveillance it was about what they could do to you psychologically which is far worse than what they could do to you physically and they figured that out. Guess what, so has this country. I was a whistleblower and I'm not likely to be able to read my file. What I tried to expose was corruption on a local scale but it turns out that all governments cover for each other and people are connected. What happens to you when the program known as organized stalking harassment is you experience a social death and in order to make sure of that your communications are all filtered and you can't go anywhere without somebody being right there with you they will interfere with any of your relationships or perspective relationships; jobs and perspective jobs; and since you're followed 24/7 there's nothing they won't know about you. You will experience total isolation except for when they try and send confederates at you. The true aim is to have you take your own life or to make you so miserable that you just curl up into a ball and wither away. I understand that none of this makes sense to any of you but it's a warning and the program is in its infancy and something that they're going to unleash on the public so just keep it in the back of your mind. You would think would see plethora of platforms that I should be able to get some word out there but some cognitive issues and they do things that are designed just to waste your time and keep you busy with whatever crisis they come up with and there will always be one. Just keep in mind they are aware of wherever you are and whatever you're doing.
@pacearrowspeeding4 жыл бұрын
This is still going on, only now it's far worse. The techniques of this horrible oppressive regime were studied and mastered and now they're being deployed all over the world by an underground network. The term "Gangstalking" was created to discredit anyone talking about this Orwellian nightmare. We need people to start waking up to the fact that this system is now far larger and stronger than it ever was before. It has now not only been deployed on a far larger number of people, it has also largely gone unnoticed due to the stealth techniques that were common place back then that have been studied and perfected today. This is the single biggest threat to freedom in North America and in all of the other First World "Democratic" run countries. We need people to start talking about this and waking up to what's really happening. As long as the true enemy of freedom remains "invisible" they will never be caught.
@nemesisferrari8537 Жыл бұрын
They could leave anyone, literally alone, and, so what? Who cares.
@daventi56773 жыл бұрын
I’m watching you
@NEWYORKLIBRE3 жыл бұрын
You can't compare the terror that exsisted back then to facebook. Any who makes that comparison should really read more about what the information was used for. Facebook is voluntary so is a smart phone.
@thepleiadianlightgridproje43373 жыл бұрын
Yeah anybody saying that any of these modern technologies is anything like the stasi has totally lost the plot. for better or worse you can't stop technology it's all on how people use it and to compare any of this stuff to those creeps is really deplorable
@machida588 жыл бұрын
That elevator doesn't look safe.
@zero_meercat86246 жыл бұрын
hajajajajjaajajja
@touraneindanke5 жыл бұрын
Your prioriteit is very questionable 🍌
@poodtang21044 жыл бұрын
Yeah I noticed that too : (
@SirGuellefrosch10 жыл бұрын
NSA= New Stasi of Ameriica
@giselengalula31757 жыл бұрын
You mean AmeriKA
@granskare7 жыл бұрын
I was in a support bit in Turkey in the late 50s of the NSA. Too bad you were not alive in those times.
@candyman57497 жыл бұрын
There is an international cabal responsible for this. If we look at the stasi logo, we can see a hammer and compass in this pic. i.ytimg.com/vi/DABfW7akyfE/maxresdefault.jpg This is a Freemasonry symbol. In the Freemasonry logo we see a compass and square in this pic. www.mckim.nescotland.co.uk/Web_SC_BW/SC_BWgoldBlue.png Now what's really frightening, if we look at the Fraternal Order of Police logo in America, we will see more masonry symbols, such as the all seeing eye and Masonic handshake. 2.bp.blogspot.com/--aXpHykeBU4/U2qoJs-WzmI/AAAAAAAAC-k/FQQUJ7F8y3g/s1600/Fraternal+Order+of+Police.jpg
@contentedbuddha6 жыл бұрын
The difference is that the NSA will delete the files from their server in a matter of minutes, when the revolution finally begins. There will be nothing left to reminisce for the millions of victims.
@PeterMayer5 жыл бұрын
Not even close. Du bist blöd.
@kingjamesviscotland2415 жыл бұрын
Crazy stuff.
@larslarsen14444 жыл бұрын
I would like to look for information about the Baader Meinhof gang.
@videosuperhighway76553 жыл бұрын
Facebook before the internet.
@calska1404 жыл бұрын
I never considered this. I should see if my paternal grandfather has a file. Thank you.
@j.martinbermejillo67933 жыл бұрын
Why? Was he prosecuted?
@StufiBuy3 жыл бұрын
This is all very interesting but what I REALLY wanna see is the stasi file on Bigfoot.
@timcrompton34277 жыл бұрын
Love those German lifts at 4:00 I used one as a teenager, I stayed in it as it went around the top. exciting as I thought I would be crushed. much more interesting than the boring museum it was situated in.
@masken83555 жыл бұрын
Tim Crompton i had one at my preschool
@smophie62603 жыл бұрын
Filip how big was the place?
@danielshaw40383 жыл бұрын
The United States has its own Stasi. It is called the National Security Agency.
@byte2702 Жыл бұрын
@@jamesrkarolchyk1440Agreed. I wonder when the next person writes that America would be comparable to North Korea.
@byte2702 Жыл бұрын
@@jamesrkarolchyk1440 Right. South Vietnam does not exist (anymore). There is only Vietnam today. You obviously meant that the Russian-occupied zones of Ukraine are corrupt as Russia itself. Russians are Russians, what do you await there? Anyway, be glad that you live outside of Germany. In Germany, your GDR flag would be forbidden. I also would suggest to watch the film “The Lives of Others”, then you will know why. 😉
@towardsthelight220 Жыл бұрын
Homeland Security
@Wolkebuch99 Жыл бұрын
It's all the TLAs
@257796 Жыл бұрын
Why would you say something so controversial yet so brave
@PeterMayer4 ай бұрын
We went there are any files on my family. She said it might take a couple years.
@NostalgiNorden2 жыл бұрын
Someone needs to tell this man about subtitles
@unsignedmusic5 жыл бұрын
They should put the entire archive on the internet.
@friesensdiecastcollection27345 жыл бұрын
These are personal documents in the archive. You can only read you're own files, what the STASI were researching about you! In the first step the archivists researching, if there are existing documents or files about you. In step two the documents about a person are only opened for this person and not for everybody on the internet.
@acoustic57385 жыл бұрын
No way untill spied people are still alive. This holds very personal data.
@wouldyouliketomeetkenbamba94953 жыл бұрын
As morbid as it was, having a file entirely dedicated to you and your life, even though it literally tramples upon the very notion of privacy, has a bit of charm in it.
@davidstrohl2 жыл бұрын
Moved to the federal archives last year, 2021.
@sutherlandA12 жыл бұрын
Yet they're are still many from the former East Germany who wish for the old days of the GDR known as ostalgie
@peterhansa67052 жыл бұрын
... and that is not to say that it could not happen exactly the same way again. Just watch some staff in companies. Short of criminal activities many medium management or assistants to management treat their co workers in ways often bordering abuse. Many stories that could have been from Stasi handbooks: Finding out as much information about them to use it against them, bad mouthing them with superiors, putting undue pressure. It all happens in companies - not only in Germany I am sure but elsewhere too.
@ottomeyer69284 жыл бұрын
how many people were executiert? hingerichtet?
@bnkundwa3 жыл бұрын
We need to work on accepting talent.
@Ar0n1311 жыл бұрын
Imagine? Look at the NSA, it's already happening.
@jacktaylor59373 жыл бұрын
The old good days! When security and safety used to be a primary concern for politicians!
@videosuperhighway76553 жыл бұрын
Cancel culture before the internet.
@Odin333564 жыл бұрын
It's too bad history repeats . No wonder zombies are so popular.
@joshuabelding50136 жыл бұрын
How come all the women have short hair?
@smophie62603 жыл бұрын
Joshua Belding must’ve been the trend
@dietmarbitterlich35004 жыл бұрын
Same as in the USA now.
@mtavares92604 жыл бұрын
Not the same, you've learned nothing
@kirstinetermansen72345 жыл бұрын
Copenhagen, walls.... Or. Walls being. Torture wictims. Same
@kirstinetermansen72345 жыл бұрын
Wonder how they. Wrote, film, taped.......
@smophie62603 жыл бұрын
Kirstine Termansen they taped citizens via pinholes
@chrisbrown86403 жыл бұрын
Does anyone know if the Stasi every got hold of any Gestapo files , just curious ...
@chrisbrown86403 жыл бұрын
@Dan Didnot That makes you wonder if any ex- Gestapo men ever got to work for the Stasi ?
@markvolker11456 жыл бұрын
Oh yes the joys of Socialism!
@aw80795 жыл бұрын
This wasn't socialism. The fire department is socialism. Public lending libraries are socialism. The is Totalitarianism. Fascism if you prefer. A police state.
@kipperedbeef20843 жыл бұрын
@@aw8079 it's systematically enforced socialism. best thing to do is create socialist communities within a free market society so this doesn't happen.. socialism is only good if it's voluntary... allow people to create their own anarchist communes within an anarcho capitalist society....the state has been the most deadliest apparatus in all of human history
@doramilitiakatiemelody18753 жыл бұрын
My mom has her files from the Stasi
@smophie62603 жыл бұрын
Pamela Militia Katie Melody my reaction is your prof pic
@doramilitiakatiemelody18753 жыл бұрын
@@smophie6260 ok
@qwertyu88324 жыл бұрын
Just wait for psychologists to create the plot to minority report xD
@stefanjouef50793 жыл бұрын
It's exactly the same in the US now, so what??
@JeanySullivan10 жыл бұрын
Ah, the Stasi, the little sister of the NSA.
@lasvegassnowman55055 жыл бұрын
Stasi?? Well where are they now right amogst us cia , mossad, mi 6, former KGB
@kevanphillips3 жыл бұрын
Good little German, redacting files to this day.
@vinadamayanti89863 жыл бұрын
Y
@sootzbitz77703 жыл бұрын
by redacting the files that woman is acting like the stasi
@sharefactor3 жыл бұрын
No
@sootzbitz77703 жыл бұрын
@@sharefactor do explain
@nenad-seguljev5 ай бұрын
one day in nsa :)
@GreedPainLove5 жыл бұрын
Socialism sure is beautiful
@greenknitter5 жыл бұрын
Totalitarianism is not socialism.
@carrauntoohil864 жыл бұрын
@@greenknitter you can not create a socialist state without having the state enforce it. Socialism inevitably leads to totalitarianism.
@greenknitter4 жыл бұрын
@@carrauntoohil86 You should tell that to the Kurds in Rojava. The Spanish Revolution likewise didn't have a state behind it yet was a socialist revolution. You've heard of Anarchism? anti-state socialism.
@carrauntoohil864 жыл бұрын
@@greenknitter socialism can work on a small scale, but it's not compatible with human behaviour in mass democracies.
@greenknitter4 жыл бұрын
@@carrauntoohil86 3 million people in Spain was not small scale and it wouldn't have worked if it wasn't compatible with human behaviour.
@ernabeier83253 жыл бұрын
Everybody who things that the Stasi is the same as Facebook: You are free to use Facebook. You are free to decide wich information you give to Facebook. Facebook comes not to your appartment, except you own one of this "modern machines wich tell you what weather we have". Facebook is not your father, wife or best friend who betrays your secrets to your enemies. Facebook don't hits you or take away your children or poison you because of a different opinion. And the biggest differenc: You are free to leave Facebook. So do not compare them.
@festusbojangles70273 жыл бұрын
yes. facebook can actually be used for active measures. it can be used to actively mentally torture you or make your close friends hate you. and facebook owns whatsapp and many other apps you cannot easily escape facebook if you are on line.
@kirstinetermansen72345 жыл бұрын
Is Sander Clinton on map
@gsvictim13017 жыл бұрын
the stassi is alive and well in america.
@dariusznowak4054 жыл бұрын
R.I.P. Free Germany 1949-1989 .
@smophie62603 жыл бұрын
Dariusz Nowak nothing like secret informants documenting your every move, very free.
@PissG2 жыл бұрын
kurwa moment
@marajevomanash2 жыл бұрын
@@smophie6260 It's even worse now with technologies like remote neural monitoring documenting your every thought, sight and hearing.