article_snippet.sent: These are the pictures taken by an unforgiving regime of the men, women and children caught trying to escape its suffocating clutches and then forced to re-enact women and children ordeal for the cameras of the secret police. '
article_snippet.sent: the Ministry for State Security better known as the 'Stasi' during the 40 year existence of the East German state - is a new book containing these photos of desperation which the socialist rulers used as evidence in the show trials against those they caught.
article_snippet.sent: Foiled: The Stasi - East Germany's secret police - forced people to pose for The Stasi - East Germany's secret police - forced people pictures, showing exactly how The Stasi - East Germany's secret police - forced people had planned to escape from the German Democratic Republic .
article_snippet.sent: It is believed the children were sent to a Stasi orphanage, the children mother arrested.
article_snippet.sent: Also caught in the cold glare of the Stasi photographic lens was an East German family and their West Berlin escape helpers, Oliver Mierendorf and Karlheinz Hetschold, who tried to smuggle them west in an Opel car on September 21, 1973.
article_snippet.sent: Tunnels, people caught in vans, others caught in car boots as well as models of the Stasi HQ speak from the pages of the book: silent witnesses to an unforgicing system which killed hundreds and imprisoned thousands more before it imploded in 1989.
highlights_snippet.sent: Show how secret police forced people trying to escape to re-enact method .
  