The Long Arm of the Stasi - How East German spies infiltrated the West

One of the most effective secret police agencies in history, the Stasi primarily existed to watch and repress the population of the GDR. But it also ran an elaborate foreign intelligence service the tentacles of which stretched deep into Western Europe, infiltrating both political and economic targets. In this recording of a public event, Katrin Schreiter and Katja Hoyer explore the extent and nature of Stasi espionage in the West. Katja Hoyer is a German-British historian and journalist. She is a Visiting Research Fellow at King's College London, a Washington Post columnist and the author of Blood and Iron - The Rise and Fall of the German Empire 1871-1918. Katrin Schreiter is Senior Lecturer in German and History at King’s College London. Her research mainly focusses on the interplay of economics and culture in the postwar era, and how these areas are connected to the politics of German and European Cold War diplomacy. She is the author of Designing One Nation: The Politics of Economic Culture and Trade in Divided Germany (Oxford University Press 2020). Organised by the King's German Department in collaboration with the Centre for Transnational German Relations.