My Stasi file is as thick as a phone book (12)

My Stasi file is as thick as a phone book (12)

We’re chatting with Mark Reeder a musician and music producer who has been involved in the Berlin and international music scene since 1978, starting as Factory Records German representative from 1978-1983. Through contacts in the GDR he put on several secret punk gigs behind the Iron Curtain and his Stasi file is described as “as thick as a phone book”. He is however, denied access to the full file as it remains in the possession of the German Federal Intelligence Service... He is also the founder and owner of the first East German electronic dance music label Masterminded For Success “MFS” which he started in 1990, after being the only and last Westerner to make an album in communist East Germany which was “Torture” by Die Vision in 1989. His is a very interesting and unusual account with some great stories including how he smuggled a Volksarmee uniform across the Berlin Wall and the unusual currency needed to get your phone fixed. Support the project! https://coldwarconversations.com/donate/ Follow us on Twitter https://twitter.com/ColdWarPod Facebook https://www.facebook.com/groups/coldwarpod/ Instagram https://www.instagram.com/coldwarconversations/ Youtube https://youtube.com/@ColdWarConversations Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Cold War East German Army Officer at the 40th Anniversary Parade of East Germany (45)

Cold War East German Army Officer at the 40th Anniversary Parade of East Germany (45)

In this episode, we welcome back Torsten Belger a former East German Officer. You can listen to other episodes with Torsten here https://coldwarconversations.com/episode39/ and here https://coldwarc...

19 Jan 201942min

Cold War intercepts of Soviet Aircraft with the RAF (44)

Cold War intercepts of Soviet Aircraft with the RAF (44)

Nick Anderson is a former RAF Phantom jet fighter pilot.  We discuss flying in the Cold War and in detail how the RAF would have responded to a nuclear attack.  We also talk about how QRA (Quick R...

12 Jan 201945min

Cold War Conversations highlights of 2018 - a whistle stop tour (43)

Cold War Conversations highlights of 2018 - a whistle stop tour (43)

Welcome to the Cold War Conversations History Podcast 2018 roundup and thank you to all our listeners and guests who’ve stuck with us and made the podcast what it is. If your old or new to the podcas...

5 Jan 201940min

Gillian - A US Student visiting Cold War East Germany (42)

Gillian - A US Student visiting Cold War East Germany (42)

Gillian Cox visited the GDR as a student in October 1989 just before the Wall came down. In this episode you will hear her eyewitness of account of what she saw in East Germany on the cusp of its dest...

29 Dec 201851min

Defending the Cold War Fulda Gap (41)

Defending the Cold War Fulda Gap (41)

Today we talk again with Neil Gussman who was an M60A1 tank commander in West Germany tasked with defending the Fulda Gap which was a key likely Warsaw Pact attack route. We talk about his rushed in...

22 Dec 201846min

A British Journalist in Cold War East Berlin (40)

A British Journalist in Cold War East Berlin (40)

Shane Whaley from the GDR Radio Podcast and Spybrary podcast and I speak with Peter Millar. Peter is an award-winning journalist who was named Foreign Correspondent of the Year for his reporting on th...

15 Dec 20181h 12min

Cold War East German Army Officer Training (39)

Cold War East German Army Officer Training (39)

We speak with Torsten Belger who trained as an Artillery Officer in the East German Army.   Torsten also runs Germandotmilitaria which is a web site selling various items of East German militaria and...

8 Dec 201843min

Training to be a Cold War US Army Tank Commander (38)

Training to be a Cold War US Army Tank Commander (38)

Today we’re talking to Neil Gussman who trained on the M60A1 tank in the 1970s. This was the standard main battle tank of the US Army from the 1960s through to the 1980s. If you are enjoying the podc...

1 Dec 201837min

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