HIST 4030 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Timothy Garton Ash, Young Lords, Stasi
Document Summary
National archive: note from some high officer suggesting he should commit suicide because they know he"s having extramarital affair. Hoover quintessential example of how surveillance existed before nsa The lives of the others - movie: member of political police targeted specific people; how surveillance system worked in east germany and how they transitioned to democracy. In order to have an efficient surveillance systems, there"s got to be a trade off. Ash - alive during cold war; foreign student studied labor movements in poland; originally from the uk - he was a target of interest; he didn"t know a secret police was following him with so much detail. Fall of regime: they (stasi) tried to get rid of all files on people. East germany people wanted to make the files available to everyone. Stasi archives set up by the new government that came in. With fall of governments, people go to police - documents.
