Policing the Berlin Wall: the ghostly photos taken by the Stasi's hidden cameras
- Written by Donna West Brett, Lecturer in Art History, University of Sydney
A photograph taken by Stasi operatives of suspected defectors at an abandoned restaurant in Kreuzberg, Berlin, in 1962.Observers of a possible escape incident in Berlin August 1962. Stasi Records Agency Berlin BStU MfS HA I Bild
When the Berlin Wall divided Germany from 1961 to 1989, East Germany’s Ministry for State Security – commonly...
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