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Stasi headquarters in Berlin-Lichtenberg in January 2021
Image: Marcel Fürstenau/DW

Stasi

The secret police of former East Germany, the German Democratic Republic (GDR). Headquartered in East Berlin it was a repressive intelligence and secret police agency.

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