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Is there a reason why "Stasi" is preferable to the official name of the organization for the GDR? No other MSS page uses a colloquial name, to my knowledge. I understand that English Wikipedia tends to be very inconsistent with organization names (using translations, transliterations, acronyms, nicknames, etc.), but this seems odd, given the uniformity of the other pages. Even if people are more likely to search for "Stasi", such terms can simply be redirects. Many other pages on Wikipedia redirect from common names for the topic. KnowledgeableHrvatica (talk) 01:50, 19 August 2022 (UTC)
I am sorry, I did not notice this request in time. I would have suggested another name: ”Ministry for State Security (East Germany)”. Not even the page about the GDR itself is called ”German Democratic Republic”. Kindest regards. /EriFr (talk) 22:06, 3 November 2022 (UTC)
I'm seeing Koehler as a source for much of this article. May I point out that he was a Reagan appointee and US Information Agency official [1]. Academics have critiqued his work saying "surrounds his narrative with the frequently inaccurate generalizations and cliches of the cold war" [2], and "riddled with errors of historical detail, based on sources which cannot be independently checked, and spiced with spurious quotations and quasi-novelistic insights into long distant occasions with no surviving reliable witnesses" [3].
As an aside, I'll just mention the Nazi Youth thing, which is weird but forgivable [4].Stix1776 (talk) 04:52, 10 May 2023 (UTC)
The Stasi was a murderous organization, killing thousands and systematically spreading terror throughout the population of East Germany.
I notice that there is no section explaining the atrocities committed by the Stasi, for which there is extensive documentation.
Any objections to adding such a section? Toddglewis (talk) 14:04, 17 May 2023 (UTC)