Documentary film: Drawing Lines
New series: Finds from contemporary history
Young people are drawing a white line around the Berlin Wall: an art event that was supposed to end in betrayal and arrest. Gerd Kroske’s documentary tells the story of the action and the tension between subculture and dictatorship in the GDR.
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War in the Middle East
Panel discussion
Iran supports Islamist militias such as Hezbollah, Hamas and Islamic Jihad in their fight against Israel. Has a new axis recently emerged between Russia and Iran against the West? What is happening on the secret front of the intelligence services?
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Defense through hackbacks?
Panel discussion
The cybersecurity situation is difficult. Attacks threaten infrastructures, cause billions in damage – and Putin’s digital arsenal is just one problem. But how can digital counterattacks effectively improve our situation, or – in an emergency – disable or destroy the enemy’s infrastructure?
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The Stasi Myth
Book presentation
Historian Michael Wala has now been granted exclusive, complete access to the secret archives of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution’s counterintelligence. His book reveals for the first time the methods used by the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution to try to track down Stasi spies and the success they had in doing so.
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The Independent Control Council
Panel discussion
According to Reporters Without Borders, the reformed “BND Law” is still unconstitutional and the spying practice threatens human lives. At the same time, the Independent Control Council is supposed to subject the BND’s technical reconnaissance to comprehensive legal scrutiny. So what is going to change now?
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Simply mowed down…
Panel discussion
According to the current state of research, more than 30 minors were shot at the German-German border or died there as a result of other acts of violence. Bernhard Priesemuth has worked through many of these fates already in the 1990s. His many years of research document a picture of the horrors for which the GDR border regime was responsible.
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