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A police state is a political condition where the government maintains strict control over society, particularly through suspension of civil rights and often with the use of a force of secret police. This implies that the control by the government contradicts the will of the people being controlled. Thus, a police state is inherently anti- democratic. It is similar to martial law. The definitive literary treatment of a police state is George Orwell's novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, which describes a totalitarian régime that uses the excuse of constant war to permit police and security cameras to surveil the entire population.
Until the fall of the Berlin WallNovember 16 1989 The Berlin Wall ( German: Berliner Mauer was a long barrier separating West Berlin from East Berlin and the surrounding territory of East Germany. Its intent was to restrict access between West Berlin and East Germany. It existed from 196, a classic modern police state was East GermanyFor the historical eastern German provinces, see Eastern Germany East Germany officially the German Democratic Republic GDR , German Deutsche Demokratische Republik DDR , was a Communist Party-led state that existed from 1949 to 1990 in the former Soviet, or the German Democratic Republic (GDR). The country's secret police force, the StasiThis article is about Stasi the secret police of East Germany. See Commission Stasi for other meaning''. The Ministerium fur Staatssicherheit ( German for Ministry for State Security), commonly known by the abbreviation Stasi was the main security ( secre (or Ministerium für Staatssicherheit) maintained an incredibly close watch over East German citizens, to the point where virtually every residential building, place of employment or place of leisure was home to at least one Stasi informant.
- See also Military ruleMilitary rule may mean several things in modern terms: A military occupation governing body under an Allied Control Council as after Nazi Germany's unconditional surrender When a country or area is conquered after invasion and placed under Belligerent occ
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Nazi GermanyNazi Germany or the Third Reich commonly refers to Germany in the years 1933 1945, when it was under the firm control of the totalitarian and fascist ideology of National Socialism with Adolf Hitler as dictator. The term Nazi is a short form of the German
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