“An imposing, austere row of buildings stretches for almost three miles along the east coast of Rügen, a German island in the Baltic Sea. Blocky and bleak, their unadorned design suggests a prison. But these buildings were meant for leisure: they form part of a Nazi-built seaside resort.” >full text (c) Atlas Obscura / SLATE, 2014
Archive for GDR
“You Know Who Else Collected Metadata?”
Posted in Uncategorized with tags GDR, Germany, intelligence services, metadata, secret police, spying, Stasi on 15 February 2014 by delclem
“The East German secret police, known as the Stasi, were an infamously intrusive secret police force. They amassed dossiers on about one quarter of the population of the country during the Communist regime.” >text (c) truthdig 2014
>Other text on the Stasi (c) IRISH TIMES, 2014
The GDR’s secret 1980s skater scene
Posted in Uncategorized with tags GDR, Germany, skateboarding, Stasi, youth culture on 3 December 2013 by delclem
“Skateboarding was American, therefore subversive and dangerous, so the Stasi began monitoring the skating community to keep tabs on any potential troublemakers or ringleaders.”>full article (c) vice.com 2013
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