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Secret East German Stasi files may yield secrets soon

gangstalking | January 9, 2010

Secret East German Stasi files may yield secrets soon

Berlin – German investigators are one step closer to reading thousands of secret service files, torn up during the final days of the East German regime, after a breakthrough in technology. The high-tech computer being built to reassemble millions of hastily torn-up files has learned to distinguish handwriting from typeface, project leader Joachim Haeussler told the German Press Agency dpa.

In addition, Hauessler said the machine can now recognize the colour and contour of destroyed documents.

The Stasi record office, which looks after the former East Germany’s secret police files, had hoped to begin 2010 making use of the new system to decipher 400 sackloads of documents, hastily torn up by ministry officials before the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989.

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Mother reunited with daughter 38 years after she was stolen by the Stasi in former East Germany

gangstalking | October 2, 2009

Mother reunited with daughter 38 years after she was stolen by the Stasi in former East Germany

By Allan Hall
02nd October 2009

A mother whose children were taken away by the Stasi secret police of former East Germany has been reunited with one of them nearly 40 years after she was born.

Petra Hoffman, 55, hugged her daughter Mandy Reinhardt, 38, for the first time this week since agents of the hard line Communist regime took her away shortly after she was born.

Ms Reinhardt was born in 1971 when her mother was just 16 and worked in a government cafeteria.

But the father was a man the state disapproved of after he had served prison time for speaking out against the imperfections of life in totalitarian East Germany.

‘The Youth Welfare people came to my door one day, said I was not a fit person to be a mother,’ said Mrs Hoffman.

‘They put me and her into a home. Days later, against my will, Mandy was given up for adoption.’

This was a common practice invoked by the Stasi against its enemies. Rather than resorting to crude torture or beatings, it tried to crush the will of those who displease it with the cruellest psychological pressures.

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Stasiland

admin | September 5, 2009

Stasiland

Regular readers of my reviews will no doubt have noticed a penchant for things Eastern European. This extends not only to travel and the purchase of portraits of Tito (just brought a beautiful one back from Ljubljana – it’s enormous!) but also to a genuine interest in the political and social history of the region in the twentieth century in particular. It’s an interest I’ve often found difficult to put into words but Anna Funder managed to get close to my sentiments writing in “Stasiland: Stories from behind the Berlin Wall” when she said “I think about the feeling I’ve developed for the former German Democratic Republic. It is a country which no longer exists, but here I am on a train hurtling through it – its tumbledown houses and bewildered people. This feeling needs a sticklebrick word: I can only describe it as horror-romance. It’s a dumb feeling, but I don’t want to shake it. The romance comes from the dream of a better world the German Communists wanted to build out of the ashes of their Nazi past: from each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs. The horror comes from what they did in its name. East Germany has disappeared, but its remains are still at the site.” Of course, “Stasiland” describes a very particular aspect of post World War Two Europe but Funder conveys through her book the sort of attraction the states of the former Yugoslavia, in particular, hold for me.

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Areas to consider when researching Gang Stalking

gangstalking | December 3, 2008

Areas to consider when researching Gang Stalking
Wednesday, December 3, 2008

In researching Gang Stalking there are many factors to be considered. It’s not a subject matter that should be studied lightly. Also the average psychiatrist if not familiar with some of the other issues that are affecting members of many communities might not be able to make an iron clad assessment without looking at several factors. Here are factors that I think should be considered.

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Stasi one handed sign language

gangstalking | September 13, 2007

Here is a list of signals that the former East German Secret Police the Stasi used.

SIGNALS FOR OBSERVATION

1. Watch out! Subject is coming – touch nose with hand or handkerchief

2. Subject is moving on, going further, or overtaking – stroke hair with hand, or raise hat briefly

3. Subject standing still – lay one hand against back, or on stomach

4. Observing Agent wishes to terminate…

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