God's Spies
The Stasi's Cold War espionage campaign inside the Church
Elisabeth Braw
9780745980089
336 pages
SPCK Group
Overview
When the Berlin Wall came down, the files of the East German secret police, the much-dreaded Stasi, were opened and read. And among the shocking stories revealed was that of the Stasi's infiltration of the Church. Almost 10% of the Lutheran Church's workforce were, it appears, busy involved in spying on each other, and on the Church's congregations. The Lutheran Church was the only semi-free space in East Germany, where those who rebelled against the regime could find a way of living at least a little out of the government's iron grip. Even the organisations that smuggled Bibles were infiltrated.Author Bio
Elisabeth Braw ==============Elisabeth Braw is a former journalist and leader of RUSI, Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies, the oldest defence and security think tank in the world. She regularly writes op-eds for The Wall Street Journal, The Financial Times, The Times, and other prestigious newspaper publications. She is the author of God's Spies.
