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Ministry for State Security | |
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| Ministerium für Staatssicherheit | |
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| Formation | 8 February 1950 |
| Dissolved | 13 January 1990 |
| Template:Longitem | 91,105 |
The Ministry for State Security (MfS), also known as the Stasi, was the security service of the German Democratic Republic. It had more members than the regular police but a lower budget than the West German secret police.[1]
References
- ↑ Austin Murphy (2000). The Triumph of Evil: 'A Post-Mortem Comparison of Communist and Capitalist Societies Using the German Case as an Illustration' (pp. 98–9). [PDF] Fucecchio: European Press Academic Publishing. ISBN 8883980026