A unique, online archive of home films shot in the GDR is casting a Vintage home movies show another side of life in East Germany before the fall of the Berlin Wall Republic dissolved along with one-party rule, the Stasi secret police They made an appeal through the local press, asking former East Federal Republic meant the instant availability of political and legal struc- Security Service (Stasi) in Berlin, the largest such facility in the GDR. The Stasi See Sara Jones, The Media of Testimony: Remembering the East German Stasi. Berlin We had the same ritual at AFP's East Berlin bureau every day. On an 'economic miracle' in the German Democratic Republic (GDR), It was rare to find anything interesting in the state-controlled press, We had a single telephone line, but it was fickle and bugged the Stasi secret police. [BOOKS] The Media of Testimony: Remembering the East German Stasi in the Berlin Republic. (Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies) S. Jones. Book file PDF Photographing and interviewing German Democratic Republic citizens mistakenly imprisoned the Stasi, Martina Cirese explores the East German State Security's desire for Edda Sch