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Stasiland

  • Writer: Michael Connolly
    Michael Connolly
  • Sep 18
  • 1 min read

Updated: Oct 25

Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall by Anna Funder, Harper Perennial, 2011. 


Informers

This is a story about the East Germany (formally, the German Democratic Republic) a country which existed after the end of world War II until the end of the Cold War. Is is about how the Communist secret police of the country spied on their own citizens. The East German secret police, formally the Ministry for State Security, were called the Stasi. Besides the official employees of the Stasi, there were millions of informers who spied on their fellow citizens. They were manipulated into doing so by bribes, blackmail and threats to their families. 

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