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  • čas přidán 16. 01. 2010
  • DW-TV reporter Georg Matthes is searching through the files of the former East German secret police.

Komentáře • 199

  • @Bulletguy07
    @Bulletguy07 Před 3 lety +127

    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.

    • @notmyname2170
      @notmyname2170 Před 3 lety +3

      Oh wow...Do you happen to know more about it?

    • @JAF1323
      @JAF1323 Před 3 lety +21

      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.

    • @filippocorti6760
      @filippocorti6760 Před 3 lety

      Interesting

    • @theinfeno
      @theinfeno Před 3 lety +12

      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.

    • @DivinitySaid
      @DivinitySaid Před 3 lety +1

      @@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. ❤️🤍💙

  • @casualagent7250
    @casualagent7250 Před 3 lety +40

    The movie, Lives of Others is a must watch, especially the last scene 😢

  • @Ffsdevgj
    @Ffsdevgj Před 3 lety +20

    There are no words to describe the horrific and despicable acts of evil that all this represents. Some Humans are like truly monsters.

  • @peterhansa6705
    @peterhansa6705 Před 2 lety +21

    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_Uncle
      @Dutch_Uncle Před 2 lety

      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.

    • @mlovmo
      @mlovmo Před 9 měsíci

      Same in Cambodia. Cadres who tortured and murdered during the time of "Democratic Kampuchea" are walking around unpunished.

    • @About37Hobos
      @About37Hobos Před 2 měsíci

      And the USA, China, and most modern countries have just as much information on their citizens with digital surveillance and nobody seems to care

  • @lovelessissimo
    @lovelessissimo Před 6 lety +161

    In English, "Stasi" is roughly translated as "Facebook".

    • @wictoriaolofsson2714
      @wictoriaolofsson2714 Před 5 lety +5

      Facebook Mossads lol 😂🤣

    • @svenfigueroa312
      @svenfigueroa312 Před 4 lety +2

      menckencynic and add all those “suicides” thanks to facebook...

    • @aabb-zz9uw
      @aabb-zz9uw Před 4 lety

      No."South Korea" is an exact translation. The centralised video surveillance network was copied in digital form by Korea.

    • @Dweller415
      @Dweller415 Před 4 lety

      😂😂😂😂

    • @annettehadley9718
      @annettehadley9718 Před 3 lety

      Goodness... I never knew that !

  • @Mrpublicimagelimited
    @Mrpublicimagelimited Před 10 lety +59

    That elevator @ 4:04 has to be one of the most dangerous-looking contraptions I've ever seen..

    • @patrickilmoni9380
      @patrickilmoni9380 Před 8 lety +8

      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.

    • @henkiware2490
      @henkiware2490 Před 7 lety +8

      they are called paternoster.

    • @patrickilmoni9380
      @patrickilmoni9380 Před 7 lety +1

      Henkiware2
      Yep, Thanks !

    • @keijo8238
      @keijo8238 Před 6 lety +11

      It's safe when used with common sense

    • @touraneindanke
      @touraneindanke Před 5 lety

      Your Prioriteit is questionable 🍌

  • @stevedemarest276
    @stevedemarest276 Před rokem +2

    Even THIS was overcome. It's a testament to the human desire for liberty.

  • @lesliesmith3580
    @lesliesmith3580 Před 7 lety +23

    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

  • @OffGridInvestor
    @OffGridInvestor Před 2 lety +8

    And 2 YEARS LATER they started reassembling those shredded documents. There's now (2019ish) computer software around that does it in incredibly fast time.

  • @jekke1980
    @jekke1980 Před 6 lety +179

    Who needs the Stasi when you have facebook?

  • @MrHarryt8
    @MrHarryt8 Před 11 lety +22

    Very interesting information on this despicable organisation.

    • @uradragon7823
      @uradragon7823 Před 3 lety

      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
      @rnj4209 Před rokem

      ?

  • @innocentdissident441
    @innocentdissident441 Před 4 lety +12

    Funny how history repeats itself.

  • @_Abra_Kadabra_
    @_Abra_Kadabra_ Před 3 lety +10

    Shouldn't we, more importantly, have the right to access the files that exist on us all TODAY?

    • @jimpickins7900
      @jimpickins7900 Před rokem

      If you live in the EU or UK, Australia, newzealand, or Canada you can.

  • @natnik27
    @natnik27 Před 9 lety +22

    "All man-made big disasters started with one mad man's obsession with money and power and his ability to corrupt others".
    Marin Pitu

    • @wictoriaolofsson2714
      @wictoriaolofsson2714 Před 5 lety

      Yeep the rise of the Kapitalist state..

    • @ct-xw9dj
      @ct-xw9dj Před 4 lety +1

      Wictoria Olofsson Isn’t the stasi work against the capitalist?

    • @TheWarsuron
      @TheWarsuron Před 3 lety

      @@wictoriaolofsson2714 corporatist

    • @TheWarsuron
      @TheWarsuron Před 3 lety

      @@ct-xw9dj yes they were communists

  • @caroleannhowell6164
    @caroleannhowell6164 Před 11 lety +30

    Imagine if they would have had today;s technology. So this is what we have to look forward to and worse.

    • @poodtang2104
      @poodtang2104 Před 4 lety +15

      That boat has already sailed.

    • @TheWarsuron
      @TheWarsuron Před 3 lety +3

      It is still going on today, but nw they are using brain interfacing tech

    • @inserthere6387
      @inserthere6387 Před 3 lety

      So true

    • @marajevomanash
      @marajevomanash Před 2 lety

      They can manipulate entire populations into systematically stalking and harassing you using remote mind-control technology and AI.

    • @Dutch_Uncle
      @Dutch_Uncle Před 2 lety

      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.

  • @mikekannely2286
    @mikekannely2286 Před 9 měsíci +3

    I wish that this history was taught in college.

  • @dalegribble1560
    @dalegribble1560 Před rokem +4

    STASI is an example why the 2nd Amendment exists in America.

  • @mike2uleynomad375
    @mike2uleynomad375 Před 4 lety +13

    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.

    • @casualagent7250
      @casualagent7250 Před 3 lety +4

      I concur

    • @lani6647
      @lani6647 Před 2 lety +1

      What if you get angry about something written there and go postal

    • @Dutch_Uncle
      @Dutch_Uncle Před 2 lety +2

      Youl can read YOUR information, but not that about others , except the ones who re;orted on you.

  • @pacearrowspeeding
    @pacearrowspeeding Před 5 lety +6

    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
      @nemesisferrari8537 Před rokem

      They could leave anyone, literally alone, and, so what? Who cares.

  • @GardenerEarthGuy
    @GardenerEarthGuy Před 2 lety +4

    To think that the U.S. government hasn't taken this to a much higher level is to be drinking koolaid.

  • @halitosis75
    @halitosis75 Před rokem

    Fascinating doco

  • @machida58
    @machida58 Před 8 lety +20

    That elevator doesn't look safe.

  • @larslarsen1444
    @larslarsen1444 Před 4 lety +1

    I would like to look for information about the Baader Meinhof gang.

  • @marksmith5106
    @marksmith5106 Před 4 měsíci +1

    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.

  • @NEWYORKLIBRE
    @NEWYORKLIBRE Před 3 lety +6

    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.

    • @thepleiadianlightgridproje4337
      @thepleiadianlightgridproje4337 Před 3 lety +1

      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

  • @wouldyouliketomeetkenbamba9495

    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.

  • @nemesisferrari8537
    @nemesisferrari8537 Před rokem +2

    So do you believe Stasi dead in 1991 ? No, no , no
    alike energy, they got transformed

  • @unsignedmusic
    @unsignedmusic Před 5 lety +8

    They should put the entire archive on the internet.

    • @friesensdiecastcollection2734
      @friesensdiecastcollection2734 Před 5 lety +5

      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.

    • @acoustic5738
      @acoustic5738 Před 5 lety +1

      No way untill spied people are still alive. This holds very personal data.

  • @calska140
    @calska140 Před 4 lety

    I never considered this. I should see if my paternal grandfather has a file. Thank you.

  • @NostalgiNorden
    @NostalgiNorden Před 2 lety +1

    Someone needs to tell this man about subtitles

  • @SirGuellefrosch
    @SirGuellefrosch Před 10 lety +87

    NSA= New Stasi of Ameriica

    • @giselengalula3175
      @giselengalula3175 Před 7 lety +4

      You mean AmeriKA

    • @granskare
      @granskare Před 7 lety

      I was in a support bit in Turkey in the late 50s of the NSA. Too bad you were not alive in those times.

    • @candyman5749
      @candyman5749 Před 7 lety +7

      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

    • @contentedbuddha
      @contentedbuddha Před 6 lety +2

      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.

    • @PeterMayer
      @PeterMayer Před 5 lety

      Not even close. Du bist blöd.

  • @kingjamesviscotland241

    Crazy stuff.

  • @StufiBuy
    @StufiBuy Před 3 lety +1

    This is all very interesting but what I REALLY wanna see is the stasi file on Bigfoot.

  • @timcrompton3427
    @timcrompton3427 Před 7 lety +15

    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.

    • @masken8355
      @masken8355 Před 5 lety

      Tim Crompton i had one at my preschool

    • @smophie6260
      @smophie6260 Před 3 lety

      Filip how big was the place?

  • @PeterMayer
    @PeterMayer Před 5 měsíci +1

    We went there are any files on my family. She said it might take a couple years.

  • @peterhansa6705
    @peterhansa6705 Před 2 lety +1

    ... 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.

  • @danielshaw4038
    @danielshaw4038 Před 3 lety +41

    The United States has its own Stasi. It is called the National Security Agency.

    • @byte2702
      @byte2702 Před rokem +1

      @@jamesrkarolchyk1440Agreed. I wonder when the next person writes that America would be comparable to North Korea.

    • @byte2702
      @byte2702 Před rokem

      @@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
      @towardsthelight220 Před rokem

      Homeland Security

    • @Wolkebuch99
      @Wolkebuch99 Před rokem +1

      It's all the TLAs

    • @257796
      @257796 Před rokem +1

      Why would you say something so controversial yet so brave

  • @daventi5677
    @daventi5677 Před 3 lety +6

    I’m watching you

  • @videosuperhighway7655
    @videosuperhighway7655 Před 3 lety +4

    Facebook before the internet.

  • @davidstrohl
    @davidstrohl Před 2 lety

    Moved to the federal archives last year, 2021.

  • @sutherlandA1
    @sutherlandA1 Před 2 lety +2

    Yet they're are still many from the former East Germany who wish for the old days of the GDR known as ostalgie

  • @videosuperhighway7655
    @videosuperhighway7655 Před 3 lety +4

    Cancel culture before the internet.

  • @Ar0n13
    @Ar0n13 Před 11 lety +4

    Imagine? Look at the NSA, it's already happening.

  • @CKB-vi8nw
    @CKB-vi8nw Před 7 dny

    The United States has its own Stasi. It’s called the US Military.

  • @ottomeyer6928
    @ottomeyer6928 Před 4 lety

    how many people were executiert? hingerichtet?

  • @jacktaylor5937
    @jacktaylor5937 Před 3 lety +2

    The old good days!
    When security and safety used to be a primary concern for politicians!

  • @bnkundwa
    @bnkundwa Před 3 lety

    We need to work on accepting talent.

  • @Odin33356
    @Odin33356 Před 4 lety

    It's too bad history repeats . No wonder zombies are so popular.

  • @chrisbrown8640
    @chrisbrown8640 Před 3 lety +1

    Does anyone know if the Stasi every got hold of any Gestapo files , just curious ...

    • @chrisbrown8640
      @chrisbrown8640 Před 3 lety

      @Dan Didnot That makes you wonder if any ex- Gestapo men
      ever got to work for the Stasi ?

  • @kirstinetermansen7234
    @kirstinetermansen7234 Před 5 lety

    Wonder how they. Wrote, film, taped.......

    • @smophie6260
      @smophie6260 Před 3 lety

      Kirstine Termansen they taped citizens via pinholes

  • @markvolker1145
    @markvolker1145 Před 6 lety +16

    Oh yes the joys of Socialism!

    • @aw8079
      @aw8079 Před 5 lety +6

      This wasn't socialism. The fire department is socialism. Public lending libraries are socialism. The is Totalitarianism. Fascism if you prefer. A police state.

    • @kipperedbeef2084
      @kipperedbeef2084 Před 3 lety

      @@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

  • @dietmarbitterlich3500
    @dietmarbitterlich3500 Před 4 lety +2

    Same as in the USA now.

    • @mtavares9260
      @mtavares9260 Před 4 lety +1

      Not the same, you've learned nothing

  • @kirstinetermansen7234
    @kirstinetermansen7234 Před 5 lety +1

    Copenhagen, walls....
    Or. Walls being. Torture wictims. Same

  • @joshuabelding5013
    @joshuabelding5013 Před 6 lety +7

    How come all the women have short hair?

    • @smophie6260
      @smophie6260 Před 3 lety

      Joshua Belding must’ve been the trend

  • @doramilitiakatiemelody1875

    My mom has her files from the Stasi

  • @qwertyu8832
    @qwertyu8832 Před 4 lety +1

    Just wait for psychologists to create the plot to minority report xD

  • @stefanjouef5079
    @stefanjouef5079 Před 3 lety +1

    It's exactly the same in the US now, so what??

  • @ernabeier8325
    @ernabeier8325 Před 3 lety +3

    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.

    • @festusbojangles7027
      @festusbojangles7027 Před 3 lety

      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.

  • @lasvegassnowman5505
    @lasvegassnowman5505 Před 5 lety +2

    Stasi?? Well where are they now right amogst us cia , mossad, mi 6, former KGB

  • @vinadamayanti8986
    @vinadamayanti8986 Před 3 lety

    Y

  • @sootzbitz7770
    @sootzbitz7770 Před 4 lety +2

    by redacting the files that woman is acting like the stasi

  • @nenad-seguljev
    @nenad-seguljev Před 6 měsíci

    one day in nsa :)

  • @kirstinetermansen7234
    @kirstinetermansen7234 Před 5 lety

    Is Sander Clinton on map

  • @kevanphillips
    @kevanphillips Před 3 lety +4

    Good little German, redacting files to this day.

  • @JeanySullivan
    @JeanySullivan Před 10 lety +2

    Ah, the Stasi, the little sister of the NSA.

  • @GreedPainLove
    @GreedPainLove Před 5 lety +12

    Socialism sure is beautiful

    • @greenknitter
      @greenknitter Před 5 lety

      Totalitarianism is not socialism.

    • @carrauntoohil86
      @carrauntoohil86 Před 4 lety +5

      @@greenknitter you can not create a socialist state without having the state enforce it. Socialism inevitably leads to totalitarianism.

    • @greenknitter
      @greenknitter Před 4 lety +1

      @@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.

    • @carrauntoohil86
      @carrauntoohil86 Před 4 lety +3

      @@greenknitter socialism can work on a small scale, but it's not compatible with human behaviour in mass democracies.

    • @greenknitter
      @greenknitter Před 4 lety

      @@carrauntoohil86 3 million people in Spain was not small scale and it wouldn't have worked if it wasn't compatible with human behaviour.

  • @gsvictim1301
    @gsvictim1301 Před 7 lety +1

    the stassi is alive and well in america.

  • @dariusznowak405
    @dariusznowak405 Před 4 lety +2

    R.I.P. Free Germany 1949-1989 .

    • @smophie6260
      @smophie6260 Před 3 lety

      Dariusz Nowak nothing like secret informants documenting your every move, very free.

    • @PissG
      @PissG Před 2 lety +1

      kurwa moment

    • @marajevomanash
      @marajevomanash Před 2 lety +1

      @@smophie6260 It's even worse now with technologies like remote neural monitoring documenting your every thought, sight and hearing.