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Monday, November 9, 2009

Stasi Files Revisited: The Banalities and Betrayals of Life in East Germany

Stasi Files Revisited: The Banalities and Betrayals of Life in East Germany - SPIEGEL ONLINE - News - International: "A West German pudding. That was all it took. Once the Stasi found out about it, a family breadwinner was fired from his army job and an East German household was plunged into destitution.

Even worse, the family later found out that they had been turned in by a close friend. 'She was watering the plants and went through the cupboards to find a Dr. Oetker dessert,' Vera Iburg, who has worked with files kept by the East German secret police for the last 20 years, told SPIEGEL ONLINE, referring to the snoop. 'What was she doing? She had no business there!'"

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