Images of omnipotence
Book launch
The Stasi is very present in modern cinema and TV. How is the Stasi staged and how is this compatible with historical research? The book “Images of the omnipotence” deals with these questions on the media presentation of the Stasi and the influence on the historical picture of the GDR.
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Target Object Right-Wing
Book launch
The Stasi had more than 70 informants from the West German neo-Nazi scene or their environment. Andreas Förster has done some research on the work of the Stasi among the right-wing extremists and evaluated the results. He also came across documents of the German Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution and the BND.
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Secret communication in the Cold War
Presentation with archival originals
Secret communication and encryption procedures during the Cold War and in the present: dead letter boxes, cryptographic methods, microdots, fast transmitters, radio frequencies, etc. The intelligence service expert Detlev Vreisleben reveals details about secret communication.
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Monitoring the controllers
Discussion about parliamentary control
Who works in secret, must be specially controlled. How does this parliamentary control work? Together with representatives from the parliamentary control committee (PKGr) and the intelligence services, the German espionage museum examines the parliamentary control in Germany.
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Safe houses
A search for traces
The RAF had them, the Stasi had them and also the BND has them: safe houses. Together with former officers of the Stasi and researchers, the German Spy Museum is looking for clues. In the focus: conspiratorial apartments for a paramilitary group of the DKP.
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Death of a Banker
The Scandal of the World’s Oldest Bank
The Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena owns bad loans worth billions of euros – a danger to the European financial system. The ARTE documentary examines the circumstances of the death of the press officer of the bank in 2013, which are still not fully understood.
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