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Braw, Elisabeth, 1973- author.
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Germany (East). Ministerium für Staatssicherheit. Hauptabteilung XX/4 -- History.
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.
Germany (East) -- Church history.
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God's spies : the Stasi's Cold War espionage campaign inside the church / Elisabeth Braw.
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Braw, Elisabeth, 1973- author.
Grand Rapids, Michigan : William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2019.
Subjects
Germany (East). Ministerium für Staatssicherheit. Hauptabteilung XX/4 -- History.
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.
Germany (East) -- Church history.
ISBN:
9780802875259 (hardcover alk. paper)
0802875254 (hardcover alk. paper)
Description:
xxiv, 277 pages : map ; 22 cm
Contents:
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.
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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.
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