Since phone-tapping was a rite of passage in East Germany, Rosler feared he would be called to account by the Stasi again. |
Betts seeks to look behind the accepted view of the failed communist state as a totalitarian nightmare in the grips of the infamous Stasi. |
A brilliant look into the lives of the 1980s East German Stasi and the civilians they spy and eavesdrop on. |
In East Germany, there was one stasi agent or informer for every 63 citizens, records show. |
Prodded by the Stasi chief, the Politburo persuaded the Czech government to close its borders to East Germans. |
Remember the Stasi, the secret police who operated in East Germany when it was a communist state? |