That September, the curtain would close on the Stasi's final act. The Ministry for State Security (MfS) of the German Democratic Republic (GDR), founded in 1950, saw itself as the "shield and ...

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Its main target was its own population. The Stasi, as the MfS was commonly known, was the most important early warning system and repressive apparatus of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED).

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Under threat of being massacred, they surrendered their weapons. The ANC's KGB and Stasi-trained security department, known as Mbokodo ("the grindstone"), then arrested a range of ANC/MK members ...