It's Stasi (as in _Sta_ats_si_cherheit), it has nothing to do with "Nazi". Aside: There is a big controversy (in Germany and elsewhere) on how and when to com

It's Stasi (as in _Sta_ats_si_cherheit), it has nothing to do with "Nazi". Aside: There is a big controversy (in Germany and elsewhere) on how and when to compare the third reich and the GDR. Hubertus Knabe, the leader of the Hohenschönhausen memorial (Stasi jail, as you put it), equalizes them. He made quiet a few exhibitions (like "moral courage in Germany 1933-89) that way.