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…

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…

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…

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…

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.…