Spokeswoman of the Federal Commissioner for the Stasi Records.
Spokeswoman of the Federal Commissioner for the Stasi Records.
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Dagmar Hovestadt
FROM Dagmar Hovestadt
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Autocracy, Theocracy and… paperwork Last month in Berlin, Warren visited the archives of Stasi, the Communist secret police of East Germany. He learned that paperwork was almost as important to oppressive control as maintaining a climate of fear. Then he heard Rukmini Callamachi’s podcast, “Caliphate,” about gathering records from ISIS. The result is a riveting conversation between Callamachi and Dagmar Hovestadt, spokesperson for the Stasi Museum.
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