God's Spies
the Stasi's Cold War espionage campaign inside the church
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Author
Publication
2019 - William B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., Grand Rapids, MI
Language
English
Word Count
69,250 words, Guess
Page Count
277 pages
Physical Format
Hardcover
Identifiers
- ISBN-100802875254
- ISBN-139780802875259
- Library of Congress Control Number2019017683
- OCLC Control Number1078890614
- Better World Books9780802875259
and 1 more
- Open LibraryOL27319738M
Classifications
- LCCJN3971.5.A56I613
- LCCJN3971.5.A56 I613 2019
Description
This book tells 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. - Publisher.
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