A colloquial short name for the GDR State Security Service, its political secret police and intelligence agency.
Natural examples
Die Stasi überwachte zahlreiche Menschen in der DDR.
The Stasi surveilled many people in the GDR.
Im Archiv fanden Forschende alte Stasi-Akten.
Researchers found old Stasi files in the archive.
Der Film erzählt von einem ehemaligen Stasi-Mitarbeiter.
The film tells the story of a former Stasi employee.
Usage note
Stasi is a colloquial short name for the former GDR State Security Service and normally takes feminine die. Duden separately records a masculine person sense for an investigator.
Mini-lesson: Stasi
A colloquial short name for the GDR State Security Service, its political secret police and intelligence agency. Stasi is a colloquial short name for the former GDR State Security Service and normally takes feminine die. Duden separately records a masculine person sense for an investigator.
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