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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I will get you!
“The book that the secret service does not want you to read!”
Formerly, Leo Martin recruited V-People for Intelligence in the Organized Crime milieu. Today he is the author. With his works he has established a new genre in Germany. His most successful book »Ich krieg dich!« (“I will get you!) Was sold more than 100,000 copies in Germany alone.
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Nothing is, as it seems
About conspiracy theories
Conspiracy theories were always in fashion. But what makes an explanation for a conspiracy theory? And what can you do about it? Michael Butter explains how conspiracy theories work, where they come from, and what effects they can have.
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Russian secret services in Germany
Then and now
Russian secret services have a long tradition in Germany: from the Tsarist Ochrana to the KGB in the Cold War to the present day. Together, the Stasi Documentation Authority BStU and the German Spy Museum go on a journey through time of the Russian secret services in Germany.
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The master forger of the Stasi
Radio feature and conversation
In the theater play »Der Fälscher« (the Forger) Günter Pelzl speaks for the first time publicly about his work at the Stasi. Almost 30 years after the end of the Cold War, Berlin-based director Heike Tauch has managed to tell us an extraordinary find from the history of the secret service.
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