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

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  • @Bulletguy07
    @Bulletguy07 3 роки тому +125

    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 3 роки тому +2

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

    • @JAF1323
      @JAF1323 3 роки тому +20

      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 3 роки тому

      Interesting

    • @theinfeno
      @theinfeno 3 роки тому +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 3 роки тому +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 3 роки тому +40

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

  • @Ffsdevgj
    @Ffsdevgj 3 роки тому +20

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

  • @lovelessissimo
    @lovelessissimo 6 років тому +161

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

    • @wictoriaolofsson2714
      @wictoriaolofsson2714 5 років тому +5

      Facebook Mossads lol 😂🤣

    • @svenfigueroa312
      @svenfigueroa312 4 роки тому +2

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

    • @aabb-zz9uw
      @aabb-zz9uw 4 роки тому

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

    • @Dweller415
      @Dweller415 4 роки тому

      😂😂😂😂

    • @annettehadley9718
      @annettehadley9718 3 роки тому

      Goodness... I never knew that !

  • @peterhansa6705
    @peterhansa6705 2 роки тому +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 2 роки тому

      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 9 місяців тому

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

    • @About37Hobos
      @About37Hobos 2 місяці тому

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

  • @stevedemarest276
    @stevedemarest276 Рік тому +2

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

  • @jekke1980
    @jekke1980 6 років тому +179

    Who needs the Stasi when you have facebook?

  • @Mrpublicimagelimited
    @Mrpublicimagelimited 10 років тому +59

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

    • @patrickilmoni9380
      @patrickilmoni9380 8 років тому +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 7 років тому +8

      they are called paternoster.

    • @patrickilmoni9380
      @patrickilmoni9380 7 років тому +1

      Henkiware2
      Yep, Thanks !

    • @keijo8238
      @keijo8238 6 років тому +11

      It's safe when used with common sense

    • @touraneindanke
      @touraneindanke 5 років тому

      Your Prioriteit is questionable 🍌

  • @OffGridInvestor
    @OffGridInvestor 2 роки тому +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.

  • @lesliesmith3580
    @lesliesmith3580 7 років тому +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

  • @innocentdissident441
    @innocentdissident441 4 роки тому +12

    Funny how history repeats itself.

  • @_Abra_Kadabra_
    @_Abra_Kadabra_ 3 роки тому +10

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

    • @jimpickins7900
      @jimpickins7900 Рік тому

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

  • @MrHarryt8
    @MrHarryt8 11 років тому +22

    Very interesting information on this despicable organisation.

    • @uradragon7823
      @uradragon7823 3 роки тому

      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 Рік тому

      ?

  • @natnik27
    @natnik27 9 років тому +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 5 років тому

      Yeep the rise of the Kapitalist state..

    • @ct-xw9dj
      @ct-xw9dj 4 роки тому +1

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

    • @TheWarsuron
      @TheWarsuron 3 роки тому

      @@wictoriaolofsson2714 corporatist

    • @TheWarsuron
      @TheWarsuron 3 роки тому

      @@ct-xw9dj yes they were communists

  • @mikekannely2286
    @mikekannely2286 9 місяців тому +3

    I wish that this history was taught in college.

  • @dalegribble1560
    @dalegribble1560 Рік тому +4

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

  • @caroleannhowell6164
    @caroleannhowell6164 11 років тому +30

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

    • @poodtang2104
      @poodtang2104 4 роки тому +15

      That boat has already sailed.

    • @TheWarsuron
      @TheWarsuron 3 роки тому +3

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

    • @inserthere6387
      @inserthere6387 3 роки тому

      So true

    • @marajevomanash
      @marajevomanash 2 роки тому

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

    • @Dutch_Uncle
      @Dutch_Uncle 2 роки тому

      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.

  • @mike2uleynomad375
    @mike2uleynomad375 4 роки тому +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 3 роки тому +3

      I concur

    • @lani6647
      @lani6647 2 роки тому

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

    • @Dutch_Uncle
      @Dutch_Uncle 2 роки тому +1

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

  • @GardenerEarthGuy
    @GardenerEarthGuy 2 роки тому +4

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

  • @halitosis75
    @halitosis75 Рік тому

    Fascinating doco

  • @marksmith5106
    @marksmith5106 4 місяці тому +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.

  • @machida58
    @machida58 8 років тому +20

    That elevator doesn't look safe.

  • @larslarsen1444
    @larslarsen1444 4 роки тому +1

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

  • @nemesisferrari8537
    @nemesisferrari8537 Рік тому +2

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

  • @NEWYORKLIBRE
    @NEWYORKLIBRE 3 роки тому +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 3 роки тому +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

  • @pacearrowspeeding
    @pacearrowspeeding 4 роки тому +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 Рік тому

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

  • @PeterMayer
    @PeterMayer 4 місяці тому +1

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

  • @calska140
    @calska140 4 роки тому

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

  • @wouldyouliketomeetkenbamba9495
    @wouldyouliketomeetkenbamba9495 3 роки тому +5

    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.

  • @daventi5677
    @daventi5677 3 роки тому +6

    I’m watching you

  • @SirGuellefrosch
    @SirGuellefrosch 10 років тому +87

    NSA= New Stasi of Ameriica

    • @giselengalula3175
      @giselengalula3175 7 років тому +4

      You mean AmeriKA

    • @granskare
      @granskare 7 років тому

      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 7 років тому +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 6 років тому +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 5 років тому

      Not even close. Du bist blöd.

  • @unsignedmusic
    @unsignedmusic 5 років тому +8

    They should put the entire archive on the internet.

    • @friesensdiecastcollection2734
      @friesensdiecastcollection2734 5 років тому +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 5 років тому +1

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

  • @kingjamesviscotland241
    @kingjamesviscotland241 5 років тому

    Crazy stuff.

  • @timcrompton3427
    @timcrompton3427 7 років тому +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 5 років тому

      Tim Crompton i had one at my preschool

    • @smophie6260
      @smophie6260 3 роки тому

      Filip how big was the place?

  • @NostalgiNorden
    @NostalgiNorden 2 роки тому +1

    Someone needs to tell this man about subtitles

  • @StufiBuy
    @StufiBuy 3 роки тому +1

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

  • @videosuperhighway7655
    @videosuperhighway7655 3 роки тому +4

    Facebook before the internet.

  • @danielshaw4038
    @danielshaw4038 3 роки тому +40

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

    • @byte2702
      @byte2702 Рік тому +1

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

    • @byte2702
      @byte2702 Рік тому

      @@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 Рік тому

      Homeland Security

    • @Wolkebuch99
      @Wolkebuch99 Рік тому +1

      It's all the TLAs

    • @257796
      @257796 Рік тому +1

      Why would you say something so controversial yet so brave

  • @peterhansa6705
    @peterhansa6705 2 роки тому +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.

  • @davidstrohl
    @davidstrohl 2 роки тому

    Moved to the federal archives last year, 2021.

  • @ottomeyer6928
    @ottomeyer6928 4 роки тому

    how many people were executiert? hingerichtet?

  • @sutherlandA1
    @sutherlandA1 2 роки тому +2

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

  • @bnkundwa
    @bnkundwa 3 роки тому

    We need to work on accepting talent.

  • @videosuperhighway7655
    @videosuperhighway7655 3 роки тому +4

    Cancel culture before the internet.

  • @Ar0n13
    @Ar0n13 11 років тому +4

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

  • @Odin33356
    @Odin33356 4 роки тому

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

  • @jacktaylor5937
    @jacktaylor5937 3 роки тому +2

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

  • @chrisbrown8640
    @chrisbrown8640 3 роки тому +1

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

    • @chrisbrown8640
      @chrisbrown8640 3 роки тому

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

  • @kirstinetermansen7234
    @kirstinetermansen7234 5 років тому

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

    • @smophie6260
      @smophie6260 3 роки тому

      Kirstine Termansen they taped citizens via pinholes

  • @joshuabelding5013
    @joshuabelding5013 6 років тому +7

    How come all the women have short hair?

    • @smophie6260
      @smophie6260 3 роки тому

      Joshua Belding must’ve been the trend

  • @dietmarbitterlich3500
    @dietmarbitterlich3500 4 роки тому +2

    Same as in the USA now.

    • @mtavares9260
      @mtavares9260 4 роки тому +1

      Not the same, you've learned nothing

  • @doramilitiakatiemelody1875
    @doramilitiakatiemelody1875 3 роки тому +1

    My mom has her files from the Stasi

  • @kirstinetermansen7234
    @kirstinetermansen7234 5 років тому +1

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

  • @markvolker1145
    @markvolker1145 6 років тому +16

    Oh yes the joys of Socialism!

    • @aw8079
      @aw8079 5 років тому +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 3 роки тому

      @@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

  • @qwertyu8832
    @qwertyu8832 4 роки тому +1

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

  • @stefanjouef5079
    @stefanjouef5079 3 роки тому +1

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

  • @vinadamayanti8986
    @vinadamayanti8986 3 роки тому

    Y

  • @lasvegassnowman5505
    @lasvegassnowman5505 5 років тому +2

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

  • @sootzbitz7770
    @sootzbitz7770 3 роки тому +2

    by redacting the files that woman is acting like the stasi

  • @JeanySullivan
    @JeanySullivan 10 років тому +2

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

  • @nenad-seguljev
    @nenad-seguljev 5 місяців тому

    one day in nsa :)

  • @kevanphillips
    @kevanphillips 3 роки тому +4

    Good little German, redacting files to this day.

  • @GreedPainLove
    @GreedPainLove 5 років тому +12

    Socialism sure is beautiful

    • @greenknitter
      @greenknitter 5 років тому

      Totalitarianism is not socialism.

    • @carrauntoohil86
      @carrauntoohil86 4 роки тому +5

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

    • @greenknitter
      @greenknitter 4 роки тому +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 4 роки тому +3

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

    • @greenknitter
      @greenknitter 4 роки тому

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

  • @kirstinetermansen7234
    @kirstinetermansen7234 5 років тому

    Is Sander Clinton on map

  • @ernabeier8325
    @ernabeier8325 3 роки тому +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 3 роки тому

      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.

  • @gsvictim1301
    @gsvictim1301 7 років тому +1

    the stassi is alive and well in america.

  • @dariusznowak405
    @dariusznowak405 4 роки тому +2

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

    • @smophie6260
      @smophie6260 3 роки тому

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

    • @PissG
      @PissG 2 роки тому +1

      kurwa moment

    • @marajevomanash
      @marajevomanash 2 роки тому +1

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