The Grey Men : Pursuing the Stasi into the Present
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ISBN: 9781786079510
Author | Hope, Ralph |
Pub Date | 10/06/2021 |
Binding | Trade PB |
Country | IRL |
Dewey | 363.2094 |
Quick overview What do you do with a hundred thousand idle spies? By 1990 the Berlin Wall had fallen and the East German state security service folded. For forty years, they had amassed more than a billion pages in manila files detailing the lives of their citizens. Almost a hundred thousand Stasi employees, many of them experienced officers with access to highly personal information, found themselves unemployed overnight. This is the story of what they did next.