DR DIRK BOENER ATTEMPTED MURDER GERMANY FAKE REFUGEE AZ 6878032 168 TORTURE HOTELS HOSPITALS POLIZEI GESTAPO

The Stasi used Zersetzung essentially as a means of psychological oppression and Findings of operational psychology21 were formulated into method at the Stasi s College of Law (Juristische Hochschule der Staatssicherheit, or JHS), and applied to political opponents in an effort to undermine their selfconfidence and selfesteem. Operations were designed to intimidate and destabilise them by subjecting them to repeated disappointment, and to socially alienate them by interfering with and disrupting their relationships with others as in social undermining. The aim was to induce personal crises in victims, leaving them too unnerved and psychologically distressed to have the time and energy for antigovernment The Stasi intentionally concealed their role as mastermind of the operations.