'..a catastrophe..'<blockquote>'Britain's European partners have described reports of Britain's surveillance of international electronic communications as a catastrophe and will seek urgent clarification from London .. Germans who are highly sensitive to government monitoring, having lived through the Stasi secret police in communist East Germany and with lingering memories of the Gestapo under the Nazis.
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GCHQ monitoring described as a 'catastrophe' by German politicians, June 22, 2013</blockquote>
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How Today's NSA Is Much, Much Worse Than Stasi Or Orwell's “1984” June 19, 2013
Magna Carta - MI5 feared GCHQ went 'too far' - '..[the American media] .. subservient to corporate and state power..''When the free free press .. becomes equivalent to an "enemy of the United States" something very, very bad is happening.'British Girls in the Third Reich: 'We Had the Time of Our Lives', June 13, 2013
'..Just around the corner from where she worked was a nursing home in the Grosse Hamburger Strasse serving as a collection center for Jewish transports to Theresienstadt and Auschwitz. "My son always said to me: How could you have been so oblivious?" '
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Source, June 12, 2013</blockquote>