the stasi -- when the stasi wrought someone in for questioning, one other piece of information they may be collecting is a person's scent. they may have a person sit on a chair with a little piece of material, they would collect that piece of material and store it in a jar on a shelf with their name on it, just in case they needed to track this person. dogs were specially trained to track these smell. e have some of these scent jars with the yellow material inside them. the stasi had hundreds of these from different people that they stored in their headquarters. we have another artifact here of a similar nature. it is called a dog hormone kit. again, if the stasi wanted to track somebody around the city, they might spray the female dog hormones on the mat outside of their apartment. or maybe even under the door. as the person walks out of heir apartment, they would step on it and get the hormone on their shoe and specially trained male dogs who could track these hormones through the city, sometimes even for days. in 1989, the berlin wall fell, east germany doesn't exist today. the wall

the nickname for the hotel was stasi nest. here we have moderate -- wonderful artifacts that can show you the lengths the stasi went to spy upon visitors. an ordinaryike cuckoo clock. of course it is not. it has been modified. if you take a close look, you may be able to see that behind the window, where the cuckoo would come out, is a tiny pinhole. behind that pinhole would be a camera, a very rare piece, a very wonderful piece. through the wall camera. somebody would be located on the others of this wall, looking through the eyepieces here. this long section would be going through the wall. the lens at the end would be behind the cuckoo clock camera here. while you were sitting in your hotel, you would be spied upon by somebody behind the wall. there are lots of artifacts in this room. every single one of them was some kind of device or concealment or surveillance. what is the best thing to use as a concealment, something you would never think to conceal anything suspicious? we've got a few of these pieces here. one of them

lessons are for today and we meet 2 women who were spied upon by the east german secret police the stasi and open their files for the 1st time. also coming out violence flares and she lay as thousands of people take to the streets of the capital sons gal go to demand and economic inequality. and a new one tests that may be able to detect breast cancer years before patients begin showing any symptoms. i'm called assman welcome to the program festivities have kicked off here in germany to mark the fall of the berlin wall 30 years ago on november 9th 1989 events i've been taking place across the capital we'll have more on that but 1st one demonstration 3 decades ago that many say change the course of history. history flashing before their eyes just dow's it's returned to berlin so iconic of the sun the plot to mark the moment that would help change the city and the country forever november 4th 1989 more than half a 1000000 protests. descended on the square in what would become the largest demonstration in the history of east germany led by some of its most prominent intellectuals they rose

no idea what information the stasi had gathered about them until years later when the stasi files were made available we caught up with 2 women whose lives were changed by the stasi and who still feel the effects today. mostly all fall under loners aber visit the building where they used to live. when the 2 secretaries lived here in their younger years spies from the stars he used germany's secret police monitor them through the kitchen window. but then the tree was smaller i was even busy do you see people from the stars he's standing there no as for me i just recently read about it. we never would have thought of such a thing oh no i don't think so either. they read about it in the stasi files a couple of 100 pages of intercepted letters private mail and official correspondence and most of all reports from spies including the layout of the loners aber and zilker all files flat. at 7 am on april 30th 980 observations of residents was undertaken for this kitchen light was on and the window was half open and about 15 minutes later the light was turned off and saban left the flat alone s

and the stasi consisted of visual and not so official associates who spied on hundreds of thousands of citizens many had no idea that the stones they had collected information about the mental years later when their secret police files were made public that brings us to the story of 2 women the stasi was able what the stars he was able to do to their lives as had all kinds of impacts then and even today. it's a little fall under luna zeba visit the building where they used to live. when the 2 secretaries lived here in the younger years spies from the stasi used germany's secret police monitored them through the kitchen window. but then the tree was smaller i was even busy do you see people from the stasi standing there no as for me i just recently read about it. then we never would have thought of such a thing oh no i don't think so either. they read about it in the stasi files a couple of 100 pages of intercepted les's private mail and official correspondence and most of all reports from spies including the layout of your loan is able until coal files fly. at 7 am on april 30th 980

you see people from the stasi standing there no as for me i just recently read about it. we never would have thought of such a thing. no i don't think so either. they read about it in the stasi files a couple of 100 pages of intercepted letters private mail and official correspondence and most of all reports from spies including the layout of your loan as aber and zuko all files flat. at 7 am on april 30th 1980 observation of residence was undertaken to this kitchen light was on and the window was half open and about 15 minutes later the light was turned off and say about left the flat alone she walked in the direction of the summer he touched us a subway station and zoom on how someone looked into my life and i had no idea about it this is made me feel very uncomfortable for years i didn't want to have anything to do with it i didn't even want to read the file. this is what's there. but i have to live with it. in my experience you always get through life better if you can live with the situation. with. it. they wanted to leave east germany they had applied for exit reaso

very member very well the names of the stasi offices. called. friends would you like to meet them again no land. mine that i know. absolutely not. off the island like and of course i wouldn't be able to hide how much i despise them and when i despise someone i don't want to have anything to do with and. these events took place over 30 years ago. now the stasi records agency has provided access to their files. for the 1st time the 2 women have talked to the younger generation about why they risked everything to get out to be stormy. it's doable i wanted out i didn't want anyone dictating that i live here even if it was socially equitable but we didn't want that and at that age you're brave enough to go ahead and act on it it is the smoothest least as much as most doesn't even know i'm for the last common the fact that i couldn't get out that i could only go to a few countries that i was allowed to visit i just couldn't accept that i couldn't accept the way things were missed i mean and so i thought no i want out i want freedom of course is that i

that was more than 30 years ago only anniversary of the fall of the berlin wall the stasi documentation authority made the files accessible zilker or fallen ilona zabel speak publicly about what happened there explains young germans why they risked their lives to leave east germany. i wanted out just like i didn't want anyone to tell me who has the right to decide where i live even if it were social or whatever but we didn't want that and at that age you're also brave enough to do it as much as most doesn't even know somehow never getting out or only to a couple of countries that it was decided i could go to i never agreed to that i had said before that i wasn't happy with that and then i thought you know i just want out of here i want freedom is that if i had but at some stage it all petered out both women withdrew their exit visa applications so cut off our marriage a pastor and that allowed her to travel alone as a but had a baby and was allowed to go to the west after all. abdul cut dear lost both his arms several years ago after accidentally touching a high tension electric cable s

back then, the intense scrutiny of the stasi meant that gigs often had to be held in the unlikeliest of locations. back then, the intense scrutiny of the stasi meant that gigs often had to be held in the unlikeliest of locations. this is the place. wow, this is pretty spectacular. yeah, it's a church. i can't imagine hundreds of punks coming to a church for a concert. yeah, with hundreds of beer. what was the vibe and the energy like in here? when you think about those times, those difficult times during the gdr, where you were intimidated, by the stasi and the problems that you had amongst the people in the streets, would you do it again? absolutely. punk was the soundtrack to an era of mounting defiance against the gdr, an era that culminated with the destruction of the wall. now, 30 years on, this underground history is finally surfacing. in the aptly named punk bar, the church from underground, a band is rehearsing for 0st art, a two day festival taking place this weekend designed to pay tribute to the subculture that provided a lifeline for so many. 0st art is a festival in berl

east germany's secret police, the stasi, regularly targeted defiant anti—authoritarian punks. on multiple occasions, chaos was imprisoned and brutally beaten. back then, the intense scrutiny of the stasi meant that gigs often had to be held in the unlikeliest of locations. this is the place. wow, this is pretty spectacular. yeah, it's a church. i can't imagine hundreds of punks coming to a church for a concert. yeah, with hundreds of beer. what was the vibe and the energy like in here? when you think about those times, those difficult times during the gdr period, where you were intimidated, by the stasi and the problems that you had amongst the people in the streets, would you do it again? absolutely. it was for me the hardest but most beautiful time. punk was the soundtrack to an era of mounting defiance against the gdr, an era that culminated with the destruction of the wall. now, 30 years on, this underground history is finally surfacing. in the aptly named punk bar, the church from underground, a band is rehearsing for 0st art, a two day festival taking place this weekend

this was stasi land, the secret police state. the stasi's archives are on public show nowadays. there are 111 kilometres of secret files in all. something like one person in every seven was being watched and reported on. there were spies in every factory, in every office, in every street, in every block of flats. husbands spied on their wives and wives on their husbands. stasi headquarters kept a special eye on a leading dissident called hans—jurgen misselwitz. 30 years later, he's come to terms with the fact that people he knew, friends even, had spied on him. they were people i knew, yeah. but i had a different... ..or we had a different explanation of what their motives were. some were still convinced that they did the right thing. did anybody who'd informed on you say sorry? he clears his throat. no. the east german crowds were emboldened by the liberal changes in moscow, brought in by the reformist soviet leader mikhail gorbachev. they took to the streets, demanding greaterfreedom and the demonstrations grew bigger and bigger. the police and the stasi used plenty of force

this was stasi land, the secret police state. the stasi's archives are on public show nowadays. there are 111 kilometres of secret files in all. something like one person in every seven was being watched and reported on. there were spies in every factory, in every office, in every street, in every block of flats. husbands spied on their wives and wives on their husbands. stasi headquarters kept a special eye on a leading dissident called hans—jurgen misselwitz. 30 years later, he's come to terms with the fact that people he knew, friends even, had spied on him. they were people who i knew, yeah. but i had a different... ..or we had a different explanation of what their motives were. and what their...some were still convinced that they did the right thing. did anybody who'd informed on you say sorry? 0h... clears throat no. the east german crowds were emboldened by the liberal changes in moscow, brought in by the reformist soviet leader mikhail gorbachev. gorby! they took to the streets, demanding greaterfreedom and the demonstrations grew bigger and bigger. the police and the

people planning to flee the regime were met with the full force of the notorious secret police the stasi their spies intimidated not only dissidents but ordinary citizens as well. as a little file under loan azuba visit the building where they used to live. when the 2 secretaries lived here in their younger years spies from the stars he used germany's secret police monitored them through the kitchen window. but then the tree was smaller i was even busy juicy paper from the stars he's standing there you know as for me i just recently read about it. we never would have thought of such a thing. no i don't think so either. they read about it in their stars he files a couple of 100 pages of intercepted letters private mail and official correspondence and most of all reports from spies including the layout of the loners aber and zilker all falls flat. the month has someone looked into my life and i had no idea about it this is made me feel very uncomfortable for years i didn't want to have anything to do with it i didn't even want to read the file on the families this is what's there. but i ha

his freedoms already so restricted in his life in east germany were now completely robbed at the stasi jail in dresden interrogators tried to break him with endless interrogations arbitrary harassment and total isolation even when he was allowed out to the courtyard. which could mean you forced into many a wacom device i was always down there. because i could never imagine what it was like from up here. now looking down at it's almost as if the guards were standing up on your. show separated from the scum below. flutes to. paint a call it was sentenced to 10 months in jail for attempting to escape the republic and sent to a prison in corpus but then his fate took a happier turn the so-called halflings fikile for prisoners ransom saw west germany buying the freedom of east german prisoners in exchange for cash or goods. by 989 over 33000 political prisoners were bought free by west germany paid a corpse freedom cost at least 40000 door to mars in some east germany aren't an additional 3400000000 dollars your marks by selling prisoners. it was essential informal inner german human traffi

to dig into the east, they crawl straight into a stasi trap. also interestingly, there is a leak where they cannot figure out how to fix it, and they actually go to authorities to tell them a tunnel is being dug. yes, it must have been a terrifying thing to do because they we re terrifying thing to do because they were spies even in the authorities there were known to be people working there for the stasi. they go to the west berlin water authorities and asked to help them fix it. all the way along they take such huge risks, and this is all to help people escape out of the east into the west. the other fascinating bit, i have only got to this bit so you cannot spoil it for me! nbc at the time, the us broadcaster, gets involved in size, we will help with money and funding, but we want the story. and this is a bit of the story. and this is a bit of the story where i had thought i had to tell it. this would have been one of the most controversial deals in the history of tv news, you have this american broadcaster giving these tunnellers money, $7,

actually the invention of former stasi officers. we have the file that shows how this was invented and many made proposals because they said, especially during the summer months, there really was not anything that helped women conceal surveillance cameras on their body that would be unobtrusive. they devised this camera. it is right in the middle. it comes out from behind and the camera could be activated with this in the pocket of your summer dress. we have some surveillance photos that were taken and the four -- and had a codename. there are a number of other artifacts here. the case of the foreign intelligence brands -- branch was notorious. he banned the foreign intelligence branch for over 30 years and he was a master of doing so. one of his techniques that he developed was developing romeo spies. men and women who were especially trained to seduce their targets. they targeted secretaries at not sothers, maybe young, but women who were a and they wouldr seduce them to get a lot of intelligence out of them. serviceign intelligen

my children were 11 and 12 for 5 months i didn't know what was happening with them and the stasi had no obligation to tell me. set up in a former soviet secret police prison when shown hausen served as the central remand prison for the state security ministry from 1951 to 89 after the war was the prison held mostly people who had tried to flee on emigrate from east germany minister for state security. personally took it upon himself to interrogate. as well as knew could put it we've given you the opportunity to take up this wonderful profession and now you want to turn your back on us. since i was famous my case went right up through the government circles and they know and hanukah. they wanted to make an example of me to scare others off anyone from television or any public figure as if to say look what will happen to you if you try this or even entertain the thought it was such personal. today shown how to guides visitors groups around the memorial showing them the plane delivery vans like those that once brought them here. this back past 1000 days fitted with 5 detention sounds. f

the stasi offices presented a draft version of new travel regulations and it. was shocked by the suggestions. for this and they had proposed the regulation permitting permanent departure meaning that from the 10th of november anyone would have been allowed to leave the country for good but they still wouldn't have been allowed to leave and come back leave and just see a bit of the world or stroll through west berlin or visit their relatives. again that meant no freedom of travel just 3 days early allow to have had to defend the government's half hearted stance in the east german media against opponents like green. blouse i became the scapegoat of the nation he didn't want that to happen again. i said this would be the final straw this would break the camel's back. so he refused to accept the half measure. a larger discussion followed and which lauter called for everyone to be given the freedom to travel. you know the officials knew the people of east germany were still fleeing via hungry in czechoslovakia they knew things couldn't stay as they were but they cou

but his every step was surveilled by hundreds of stasi officials. then there was the performance of the past. women back played for songs of the rock for peace festival in front of a select crowd of party faithful as real fans were left outside where they vented during. the back didn't mince words not even when it came to demands that east germany to some. thanks. implicitly. in full. is. a stasi paper about the concert states that vinton baggs vulgar language and his decadent appearance were inappropriate for the peace of the permission to perform was deemed a political misjudgment. lindenberg was too unpredictable for the east german leadership which cancelled the plans tour disappointing his east german fans . so. this was a. new kind of world a very good movie and listen to this innovation as it was going it is unique you have you have you patent your you put into it is nobody else is allowed to do this . is what we call lindy is was in the news of this animal. for you know it is as good. as it is to get it. and then get together then we had to

of speech is quite remarkable given that one of the most dreaded aspects of eastern germany was the stasi police the secret police so what was it like for citizens off east in germany living with that yeah i mean this is the stasi the secret police in east germany was something like a state within a state and it was there to sort of protect communism and keep the whole thing going but what it involved was a huge apparatus of professional agents but also unofficial collaborative is in 1989 there were around 300000 people working for the stars in one way or another that's over 20 percent of the population and they were collecting information and in some cases spying on people within their own families of course a lot of people will locked up somewhat tortured and that was a grim system and of course no one wants to return to that so many of these political correspondent thank you very much. and all this week we will be bringing you special coverage and reports on the mentors events that led to the fall of the bone in 130 years ago let me now being that some of the stories making news around

back then, the intense scrutiny of the stasi meant that gigs often had to be held in the unlikeliest of locations. this is the place. wow, this is pretty spectacular. yeah, it‘s a church. i can‘t imagine hundreds of punks coming to a church for a concert. yeah, with hundreds of beer. what was the vibe and the energy like in here? when you think about those times, those difficult times during the gdr, where you were intimidated, you were intimidated by the stasi and the problems that you had amongst the people in the streets, would you do it again? absolutely. punk was the soundtrack to an era of mounting defiance against the gdr, an era that culminated with the destruction of the wall. now, 30 years on, this underground history is finally surfacing. in the aptly named punk bar, kirk von unter, from underground‘, a band is rehearsing for 0st art, a two day festival taking place this weekend designed to pay tribute to the subculture that provided a lifeline for so many. 0st art is a festival in berlin in honour of the anniversary of the fall of the berlin wall. a good chance to g

now the stasi records agency has provided access to their files. for the 1st time the 2 women have talked to the younger generation about why the rift that we thing to get out to be struck me. is doable i wanted out i didn't want anyone dictating that i live here even if it was socially equitable but we didn't want that and that's hainje brave enough to go ahead and act on it what is doesn't just wish to some of us most doesn't even know i'm for also common was the fact that i couldn't get out that i could only go to a few countries that i was allowed to visit i just couldn't accept that i couldn't accept the way things were missed on me and so i thought no i want out i want freedom laws which meant if i had. desire for freedom almost landed her in prison but she found work and protection in a church community. my muses. about 9 months later i was through the application. because i married the pastor who lived in prague. but the pastor could only marry one of you right. then have your belief and then i wondered if there weren't other ways. i though

and i think that one point in the stasi salt. no matter what they tried the situation couldn't be helped . his office is full of souvenirs spanning 30 years after the fall of the berlin wall the east german businessman inexperienced in the way of capitalism was ripped off a few times in the beginning when he looks at this picture he remembers. we finished undelivered the orders but they only paid us half of what they owed us because we heard. johann do deck experienced all the risks that business men face now after years is finally paid back alone he took out and can now afford the good life the remnants of the berlin wall a just a tourist attraction the stays is not shedding any tears for east germany. we have blooming landscapes as cold promised us just not the same everywhere but imagine if east germany went on for another 30 years there would have been nothing left but ruins. for the 73 year old dudek there's one more assignment finding a successor. china is imposing a curfew on its under-age game as it is under the age of 18