East German Stasi and Polish secret service shared deep distrust
Officially, East Germany and Poland were socialist brother countries. But new evidence reveals that their intelligence services shared a mutual distrust and dislike.
East Germany s secret service, the Stasi, was intelligence agency and secret police in one
Many Polish journalists describe the relationship between the People s Republic of Poland and the German Democratic Republic until the fall of the Berlin Wall as a forced friendship. Even if the rulers of both countries celebrated their harmonious alliance in public, behind the scenes there was a profound distrust between Warsaw and East Berlin.