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God's spies : the Stasi's Cold War espionage campaign inside the church
Autor/Hrsg./Bearb.: Braw, Elisabeth
Ort, Verlag, Jahr: Grand Rapids, William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2019
Umfang: xxiv, 277 Seiten 1 Karte
ISBN: 9780802885807 , 9780802875259
Schlagwort: Deutschland <DDR> / Ministerium für Staatssicherheit / Hauptabteilung <XX> / Evangelische Kirche / Spionage
Signatur: 35/HIS549/2026.223
| Autor/Hrsg./Bearb.: |
Braw, Elisabeth
|
|---|---|
| Titel: | God's spies |
| Untertitel: | the Stasi's Cold War espionage campaign inside the church |
| Von: | Elisabeth Braw |
| Ort: | Grand Rapids |
| Verlag: | William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company |
| Jahr: | 2019 |
| Umfang: |
xxiv, 277 Seiten |
| Details: |
1 Karte |
| Anmerkungen: | Hier auch später erschienene, unveränderte Nachdrucke |
| Abstract: | This book tells the real-life cloak-and-dagger story of how East Germany's notorious spy agency infiltrated churches here and abroad. East Germany only existed for a short forty years, but in that time, the country's secret police, the Stasi, developed a highly successful "church department" that -- using persuasion rather than threats -- managed to recruit an extraordinary stable of clergy spies. Pastors, professors, seminary students, and even bishops spied on colleagues, other Christians, and anyone else they could report about to their handlers in the Stasi. Thanks to its pastor spies, the Church Department (official name: Department XX/4) knew exactly what was happening and being planned in the country's predominantly Lutheran churches. Yet ultimately it failed in its mission. Despite knowing virtually everything about East German Christians, the Stasi couldn't prevent the church-led protests that erupted in 1989 and brought down the Berlin Wall. - Publisher |
| Angaben zum Inhalt: | Establishing a Secret Police Force -- Agents and handlers -- Reining In the seminaries -- Recruitment -- Preventing escape -- High-maintenance spy -- Infiltration -- Student spy -- Tapping ecumenical bodies -- Stopping the Bible mules -- Further adventures in Bible smuggling -- Perks -- Seminary spy -- Expanding connections -- A frustrated spy -- Pastor spies abroad -- Opposition rises -- Game over -- The wall falls -- Shredding and pulping and shuttering the Stasi -- God's spies . . . after the fall -- Final reflections |
| ISBN: | 9780802885807 |
| Preis/Einband: | paperback |
| ISBN: | 9780802875259 |
| Preis/Einband: | hardback |
| Notation: | HIS549 |
| Notation: | REL464 |
| Schlagwort: |
Deutschland <DDR> / Ministerium für Staatssicherheit / Hauptabteilung <XX> ;
Evangelische Kirche ;
Spionage |
| Weitere Schlagwörter: | Germany (East) Ministerium für Staatssicherheit Hauptabteilung XX 4 History Germany (East) Church history Cold War (1945-1989) Germany (East) |
| Weitere Schlagwörter: | Intelligence service Germany (East) Clergy as spies Germany (East) Internal security Germany (East) Secret service Germany (East) Church and state Germany (East) History Informers Germany (East) Cold War Church and state Clergy as spies Informers Intelligence service Internal security Secret service |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Inhaltsverzeichnis: | https://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:443/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&local_base=BVB01&doc_number=031637... |
| Stichwörter: | Stasi's Cold War espionage campaign inside the church |
| Katkey: | 2184223 |
