Originally published under title: Mielke-Konzern. Stuttgart: Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, 2001.
Jens Gieseke tells the story of the Stasi, a feared secret-police force and a highly professional intelligence service. Masterful and thorough at once, he takes the reader through this dark chapter of German postwar history, supplying key information on perpetrators, informers, and victims.
PrefacePreface to the 2011 edition