Analysing Stasi files and interviews with one time informers, the author examines the confrontation with this legacy in united Germany. She discusses the daily machinations of the state and the motivation and justification of being an informer.
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The extensive surveillance and control measures implemented by the Stasi involved being constantly aware and informed of which individuals posed a threat to internal security at any one time, in other words asking the key question of 'Who is who?' Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
unofficial employees, foreign espionage department, individual informers, many informers, informer network, other informers, one informer, relative guilt, potential informers, die tageszeitung, justifiable purpose, written commitment, contact meeting Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
East Germans, Manfred Stolpe, Stolpe Committee, Focusing Principle, Jurgen Fuchs, Joachim Gauck, Stasi Document Law, Christa Wolf, Requirement Profile, Lutz Rathenow, West German, State Security Service, Stolpe's Stasi, Vera Wollenberger, West Berlin, Wolf Biermann, Bärbel Bohley, Erich Mielke, Jurek Becker, Sascha Anderson, Secret Service, Stefan Heym, Friedrich Schorlemmer, Walter Schilling, World War Two New!
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The extensive surveillance and control measures implemented by the Stasi involved being constantly aware and informed of which individuals posed a threat to internal security at any one time, in other words asking the key question of 'Who is who?' Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
unofficial employees, foreign espionage department, individual informers, many informers, informer network, other informers, one informer, relative guilt, potential informers, die tageszeitung, justifiable purpose, written commitment, contact meeting Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
East Germans, Manfred Stolpe, Stolpe Committee, Focusing Principle, Jurgen Fuchs, Joachim Gauck, Stasi Document Law, Christa Wolf, Requirement Profile, Lutz Rathenow, West German, State Security Service, Stolpe's Stasi, Vera Wollenberger, West Berlin, Wolf Biermann, Bärbel Bohley, Erich Mielke, Jurek Becker, Sascha Anderson, Secret Service, Stefan Heym, Friedrich Schorlemmer, Walter Schilling, World War Two New!
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- Theoretical Aspects of Memory: Volume 2 by Peter E. Morris in Back Matter
- Oral History: Talking About the Past (Helps for Students of History Series) (Help for Students of History) by Robert Perks in Back Matter
- On Guilt and Innocence: Essays in Legal Philosophy and Moral Psychology by Herbert Morris in Back Matter
- Life Stories by Daniel Bertaux in Back Matter
- Biography and Society: The Life History Approach in the Social Sciences (SAGE Studies in International Sociology) (English and French Edition) by D. Bertaux in Back Matter
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