Elisabeth Braw

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God's Spies: The Stasi's Cold War Espionage Campaign Inside the ChurchHardcover, 17 September 2019

God's Spies: The Stasi's Cold War Espionage Campaign Inside the Church
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Print Length
288 pages
Language
English
Publisher
William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
Date Published
17 Sep 2019
ISBN-10
0802875254
ISBN-13
9780802875259

Description

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.

Product Details

Author:
Elisabeth Braw
Book Format:
Hardcover
Country of Origin:
US
Date Published:
17 September 2019
Dimensions:
21.59 x 14.22 x 2.79 cm
ISBN-10:
0802875254
ISBN-13:
9780802875259
Language:
English
Pages:
288
Weight:
498.95 gm

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