DarthJ opened this issue on Oct 16, 2011 · 31 posts
DarthJ posted Mon, 17 October 2011 at 4:31 PM
That's one part of East-Germany's history I haven't studied yet (visit to the Stasi-museum is planned for "Berlin 2012"). I guess that as a secret police they performed most of their duties in plain clothes though they performed border controls disguised as Grenztruppe.
Check this series on Youtube :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fb7B1fHB_0I