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Former activists who campaigned against the former East Germany have warned democratic parties not to cooperate with the new German populist party Alliance Sahra Wagenknecht (BSW) after state elections. The former head of the Stasi Records Agency, Marianne Birthler, told dpa on Monday that there are great concerns about the BSW’s position on the war in Ukraine. This was outlined in an open letter signed by more than 50 former civil-rights activists. The Stasi was the secret police in the former East Germany. In the paper, published on X, statements by Wagenknecht and other BSW members on the w…