Writing a thesis on how to destroy ones soul? These evil c suckers deserve all of the outing they receive and they should stand in the public and justify their actions as recorded int he victims files.
It is America that has subjected the world to the greatest evil over the last 60 years and continues to do so. The exsistence of a communist bloc although hugely flawed at least limited to an extent American policy.
Someone should have added some polonium-210 to the two ex-Stasi agents' coffee and schnapps down there on Karl Marx Avenue. You know, give them a taste of their own medicine. I wonder if they would apologize on their death beds. Communist scum!
There is a hell of a lot wrong with this documentary. It's ridiculously biased. I agree with the Stasi agent: People weren't just chucked in there for no reason. Sigrid Paul decided to try and cross the wall, and harbored others who were trying to do the same thing. That was illegal. Deal with it.
@iImplying - Biased in that it exposes the truth behind the East German Secret Police. I am sure you agree with the Stasi agents on a great number of things. Apparently, you have an antipathy toward human freedom. Do you currently work for the United States Department of Homeland Security by any chance? Should we just deal with the police state that is being perfected here in the U.S. as well? In my mind, there are a number of ways to deal with such a system and acceptance is not one of them.
@iImplying The point is, the punishment does not fit the crime. Sigrid Paul was traumatised as a consequence of what? Wanting to go to another half of the city to be with her sick baby.
I spent ten days in East Germany in 1986 and am still traumatized by how horrible it was. I'm inclined to think East Germany was worse for the average person than Nazi Germany. Keep in mind Jews, Gypsies and the mentally ill were not in that category but were a very small percentage of the population.
Funny information: "If you consider the oppression of its own people the StaSi was much worse than the GeStaPo": The jews weren't our own people, or what? And their was an own KZ for political enemies in Buchenau. The StaSi was a control-system, but mostly no kill-system as it was in the 3. Reich.
The audience from the USA should be remembered by these video, that they've even today a KZ in Guantanamo.
the end of DDR reflects some aspects of the end of nazism. In both cases only few of the responsibles went under process but the Illuminati behind the scene, responsibles of all evil are still free to make the world suffer
Stasi has been dismissed but many other systems like Stasi are still operating now in the world, killing innocents and enslaving people and countries while we are living our illusion of being a civil people
great video. I bought the book Stasiland of Anne Funder. The former Stasi Officers just notoriously deny the truth, it is quite more comfortable continuing to live a lie. Yes unfortunately not many people (including media) are interested in this sad chapter of history. But we will never leave this story to be told by the perpetrators only. I enjoy now 20 years of freedom, thank good this regime is history!
Hi, I'm an extention history student and I was thinking of using this as one of my sources on a study of differing representations of the history of the Stasi. I was wondering if you could tell me the details of the program so I can source it. Also, I noticed that the end was slightly cut off, was the ending of any further significance?
Poor people of Berlin? There were the outspoken people who expressed their concern for Berliners and then there were others with old grudges who couldn't give a damn.
@R3dSt4r90 are you spied under the capitalists? are you going to prison if you tell jokes on leaders? arrested if you have other opinions? do you buy bread on ratio? 200 g per day? WAKE UP my friend, been there, so stop your bullshit comments if you didn't live under communism. Stupid remarks like your increase fascism. ENJOY YOUR FREEDOM, others don;t have it (look at North Korea).
because i lived under the communism. did you? or only from the books? and by the way...regarding international economy..is a master degree enough to say i know smth about it?
if you would understand the international economie you would be a socialist, cause it is a system that forces businessmen and the proletariat into exploitation.. overproduction and waste on one hand, while there's malnutricion.. could you be that ignorant and selfish? i hope you're just uneducated
I read this book a few years ago. It's extremely important. It's a travesty that Germany still will not deal with the horrors of Communist East Germany.
I'm also tired of people trying to compare and contrast Nazi Germany and East Germany. The truth is both regimes are on both sides of the same totalitarian coin. They were both equally destructive.
The point is to make sure this does happen again. Has the lesson been learned? I don't think so!!
I would be that she does know that. What makes this most difficult to comprehend is asking, "What would I do?" and not coming up with the right answer. I see people with easier choices compromise all the time. People don't live in Hollywood movies. They live in real life, have real insecurities, family ties, people expecting things from them, ideologies. Nobody said the Gestapo was better than the Stasi in general -- only relative to "its own people."
Diese alte manner sind krank und egal!. Thankfully once those men die the old dinosours of that dark time will fade away making way for a fresh & forward thinking nation.
FWIW I have friends and ex-colleagues who were Ossies - they were teenagers when the reunification took place, and don't remember it as a place "where they had a good time."
I think too that often outsiders are the best story tellers because they don't have a pre-existing emotional attachment. It's pretty piss poor though that it needs a non-German to make people speak out (and that includes the Stasi men).
After having read Anna Funder's very powerful book last year it was almost more powerful to see this video and the people from the book. This talented Australian woman told these moving and terrible stories in such a sensitive, respectful and mature manner. The former Stasi men in the video make me really angry... they have no idea what they are talking about.
Great video! I'm reading Anna Funder's excellent book Stasiland at the moment after a recent visit to Berlin during which I visited the former Stasi HQ. I thoroughly reccomend her book to anyone who ever wondered what life was really like behind that wall.
Writing a thesis on how to destroy ones soul? These evil c suckers deserve all of the outing they receive and they should stand in the public and justify their actions as recorded int he victims files.
johnnyfry2 2 weeks ago
all secret services are cruel
PowerCrumb45 1 month ago
It is America that has subjected the world to the greatest evil over the last 60 years and continues to do so. The exsistence of a communist bloc although hugely flawed at least limited to an extent American policy.
foofkanon 2 months ago
Someone should have added some polonium-210 to the two ex-Stasi agents' coffee and schnapps down there on Karl Marx Avenue. You know, give them a taste of their own medicine. I wonder if they would apologize on their death beds. Communist scum!
thetruthisoutthere32 4 months ago
There is a hell of a lot wrong with this documentary. It's ridiculously biased. I agree with the Stasi agent: People weren't just chucked in there for no reason. Sigrid Paul decided to try and cross the wall, and harbored others who were trying to do the same thing. That was illegal. Deal with it.
iImplying 5 months ago
@iImplying - Biased in that it exposes the truth behind the East German Secret Police. I am sure you agree with the Stasi agents on a great number of things. Apparently, you have an antipathy toward human freedom. Do you currently work for the United States Department of Homeland Security by any chance? Should we just deal with the police state that is being perfected here in the U.S. as well? In my mind, there are a number of ways to deal with such a system and acceptance is not one of them.
thetruthisoutthere32 4 months ago
@iImplying The point is, the punishment does not fit the crime. Sigrid Paul was traumatised as a consequence of what? Wanting to go to another half of the city to be with her sick baby.
LaSmuffyDeWulf 4 days ago
I spent ten days in East Germany in 1986 and am still traumatized by how horrible it was. I'm inclined to think East Germany was worse for the average person than Nazi Germany. Keep in mind Jews, Gypsies and the mentally ill were not in that category but were a very small percentage of the population.
thermionic1234567 6 months ago
those torture tools the show are in the basement of the center building, not used by the stasi but by the russians after the war.
tf2cheats 7 months ago
Funny information: "If you consider the oppression of its own people the StaSi was much worse than the GeStaPo": The jews weren't our own people, or what? And their was an own KZ for political enemies in Buchenau. The StaSi was a control-system, but mostly no kill-system as it was in the 3. Reich.
The audience from the USA should be remembered by these video, that they've even today a KZ in Guantanamo.
roterdachs 8 months ago
the end of DDR reflects some aspects of the end of nazism. In both cases only few of the responsibles went under process but the Illuminati behind the scene, responsibles of all evil are still free to make the world suffer
hotello2009 1 year ago
@mrjkt123 absurd comment
hotello2009 1 year ago 3
Stasi has been dismissed but many other systems like Stasi are still operating now in the world, killing innocents and enslaving people and countries while we are living our illusion of being a civil people
hotello2009 1 year ago 2
KZ Dachau was not a death camp. Death was common by the end, but was more often than not a consequence of disease and ill treatment
HowCrockettian 1 year ago
Do you realy mean "Stalisland - Germany" or "Stasiland - Germany"?
Best wishes and greetings from Mark Brandenburg/Germany.
WatisnHierLos 1 year ago
I have nothing but the deepest compassion for the victims who live among those who perpetrated vile crimes against them. Torture and surveillance.
UweSchenker 1 year ago
great video. I bought the book Stasiland of Anne Funder. The former Stasi Officers just notoriously deny the truth, it is quite more comfortable continuing to live a lie. Yes unfortunately not many people (including media) are interested in this sad chapter of history. But we will never leave this story to be told by the perpetrators only. I enjoy now 20 years of freedom, thank good this regime is history!
markoatmac 1 year ago
the stasi fuck should get murdered just as nazi gestapo did
albokk 1 year ago
Hi, I'm an extention history student and I was thinking of using this as one of my sources on a study of differing representations of the history of the Stasi. I was wondering if you could tell me the details of the program so I can source it. Also, I noticed that the end was slightly cut off, was the ending of any further significance?
Thanks :D
ThatsNotASpoon 1 year ago
I really get sick, when I hear those Stasi-spies jsut mocking their victims... as if it had to be done for everyone's sake.
It is so sick these people are allowed to walk on the streets freely.
Even now Nazis are being sentenced (which is a good thing), but nobody even mentions these thugs, even though it happened until less than 20 year ago.
Something is wrong with this country...
bresophil 2 years ago 2
perfectionising isn't a word... hahahahahaha
juicylucy1909 2 years ago
Kommunisten und kapitalisten sind alle beide SCHWEINE.
Deutschland ist krank, und benötingen neues politischer ideologie.
Bonbein 2 years ago
du kannst kein deutsch xD
R3dSt4r90 2 years ago
the poor people of berliin< no germany were just toys in a bigger game between comunism and capitalism
patsyd80 2 years ago
@patsyd80
Poor people of Berlin? There were the outspoken people who expressed their concern for Berliners and then there were others with old grudges who couldn't give a damn.
summer20105707 3 months ago
The term communism for a socially just and sustainable future, free society was in the 19th Century marked.
OpaHorst 2 years ago
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OpaHorst 2 years ago
ach und kapitalisten sind keine schweine?
R3dSt4r90 2 years ago
@R3dSt4r90 can you travel under the capitalists? can you gather in groups and discuss, have fun? do you have a TV program for only 2 hours?
argesheanu 2 years ago
@R3dSt4r90 are you spied under the capitalists? are you going to prison if you tell jokes on leaders? arrested if you have other opinions? do you buy bread on ratio? 200 g per day? WAKE UP my friend, been there, so stop your bullshit comments if you didn't live under communism. Stupid remarks like your increase fascism. ENJOY YOUR FREEDOM, others don;t have it (look at North Korea).
argesheanu 2 years ago
you are ridiculous..
you obviously know nothing about international production, concentration and centralization of capital..
you dont even know what communism means
why should i argue with you?
R3dSt4r90 2 years ago
because i lived under the communism. did you? or only from the books? and by the way...regarding international economy..is a master degree enough to say i know smth about it?
argesheanu 2 years ago
hahahaha a master degree
awesome..
you don't understand anything..
you did NOT live under communism
you dont even know what communism is
look up a dictionary..
if you would understand the international economie you would be a socialist, cause it is a system that forces businessmen and the proletariat into exploitation.. overproduction and waste on one hand, while there's malnutricion.. could you be that ignorant and selfish? i hope you're just uneducated
R3dSt4r90 2 years ago
somehow i can't enjoy my freedom, while others work as slaves to make our food, clothes, electronic devices..
the poor workers in north korea have a better life than those in china.. guess why?
R3dSt4r90 2 years ago
@R3dSt4r90 they don't work as slaves, they are paid a wage. Don't enjoy your freedom then, move to North Korea.
UweSchenker 1 year ago
"... but we`re talking about east germany"
hahaha
R3dSt4r90 2 years ago
I read this book a few years ago. It's extremely important. It's a travesty that Germany still will not deal with the horrors of Communist East Germany.
I'm also tired of people trying to compare and contrast Nazi Germany and East Germany. The truth is both regimes are on both sides of the same totalitarian coin. They were both equally destructive.
The point is to make sure this does happen again. Has the lesson been learned? I don't think so!!
chigal09 2 years ago
I would be that she does know that. What makes this most difficult to comprehend is asking, "What would I do?" and not coming up with the right answer. I see people with easier choices compromise all the time. People don't live in Hollywood movies. They live in real life, have real insecurities, family ties, people expecting things from them, ideologies. Nobody said the Gestapo was better than the Stasi in general -- only relative to "its own people."
tashmoo711 2 years ago
Diese alte manner sind krank und egal!. Thankfully once those men die the old dinosours of that dark time will fade away making way for a fresh & forward thinking nation.
ChrisPlugged 3 years ago
STASILAND is an important book.
Anna's the world's prettiest historian.
Thanks for uploading.
bollockowithalob 3 years ago
"I doubt that Anna Funder knows that."
I think she almost certainly would know.
FWIW I have friends and ex-colleagues who were Ossies - they were teenagers when the reunification took place, and don't remember it as a place "where they had a good time."
I think too that often outsiders are the best story tellers because they don't have a pre-existing emotional attachment. It's pretty piss poor though that it needs a non-German to make people speak out (and that includes the Stasi men).
MinkaBeaver 3 years ago
Thank you for this post. I´m currently reading and enjoying Stasiland and appreciated the chance to see and hear the author.
nikolaiovich 3 years ago
After having read Anna Funder's very powerful book last year it was almost more powerful to see this video and the people from the book. This talented Australian woman told these moving and terrible stories in such a sensitive, respectful and mature manner. The former Stasi men in the video make me really angry... they have no idea what they are talking about.
Saneic 4 years ago
Great video! I'm reading Anna Funder's excellent book Stasiland at the moment after a recent visit to Berlin during which I visited the former Stasi HQ. I thoroughly reccomend her book to anyone who ever wondered what life was really like behind that wall.
mpearson58 4 years ago
Top video. I can only recommend 'The Lives of Others' to anyone who hasn't already seen it.
Australian birds FTW.
goatshredder 4 years ago 15