Stasi in Berlin
Surveillance and Repression in East and West

“The Ministry for State Security (MfS) was – measured by the population of the GDR – the largest secret security apparatus in the world. In Berlin, the number of MfS employees was particularly high. In the eastern part of the city, the Stasi maintained a large number of secret service objects, bases and thousands of “conspiratorial apartments”. The MfS was also surprisingly active in West Berlin. Even today, numerous traces of the Stasi can be found in the cityscape.… ” (translated with www.DeepL.com)