Book launch
The spy novel by Dirk Brauns fictionally tells the story of his family in East Berlin. In 1965, eighteen-year-old Martin Schmidt witnessed the Stasi arresting his parents as spies. When his mother is released, he follows her to the west. Decades later, the traumatic events catch up with him.
[...]Presentation
Three specialists have declared war on crime. At the end of 2018, they founded the Institute for Forensic Text Analysis. The profilers deal with cases of slander, extortion and abduction, political affairs and murders.
[...]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.
[...]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.
[...]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.
[...]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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