Fritz Kolbe
Book presentation
Under the pseudonym George Wood Fritz Kolbe becomes one of the most important spies of the Second World War. A small civil servant becomes a great resistance fighter. Bestselling author Andreas Kollender has condensed this unusual story into a gripping novel.
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Camera and Kalashnikov
Book presentation
The military liaison missions had a quasi diplomatic status. Their aim was to spy on all military installations in the GDR. With numerous original pictures and exciting stories, we dive into a special espionage chapter of the Cold War.
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Die Wende
Book presentation
On the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, the German Spy Museum is presenting a brilliant agent thriller. Two MfS agents share a deep friendship, then one becomes a double agent. The author and contemporary witness Thedy Van Goy skilfully plays with the idea of why the GDR was doomed to failure.
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Shadows of the Dead
Book presentation
With “Shadows of the Dead” Herrmann continues her series about the crime scene cleaner Judith Kepler. The author not only penetrated deep into the Berlin secret service milieu, but was also inspired by the German Spy Museum, where the novel is partly set.
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Stalin’s German Spy
Book launch
Ilse Stöbe revealed Hitler’s preparations for an attack on the Soviet Union to the Soviet military secret service GRU and transmitted further information. It is thanks to Sabine Kebir that more than 70 years after the end of the Nazi dictatorship two silent heroes of the resistance received a late honor.
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Spies at the Center of Power
Book launch
Heribert Schwan has reviewed over 70,000 pages of Stasi files in order to understand the extent of GDR espionage in the West. It shows how the Bonn political apparatus was targeted, including the chancellors, from Adenauer to Kohl.
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