In 1992 the massive files of East Germany's infamous Ministry for
State Security, the Stasi, were made publicly available and
thousands of former East Germans began to confront their contents.
Finally it was possible for ordinary citizens to ascertain who had
worked for the Stasi, either on a full-time basis or as an
"unofficial employee," the Stasi's term for an informer. The
revelations from these documents sparked feuds old and new among a
population already struggling through enormous social and political
upheaval. Drawing upon the Stasi files and upon interviews with
one-time informers, this book examines the impact of the Stasi
legacy in united Germany.
Barbara Miller examines such aspects of the informer's experience
as: the recruitment procedure; daily life and work; motivation and
justification. She goes on to consider the dealings of politicians
and the courts with the Stasi and its employees. Her analysis then
turns to the way in which this aspect of recent German history has
been remembered, and the phenomenal impact of the opening of the
files on such perceptions of the past.
"The Stasi Files Unveiled: Guilt and Compliance in a Unified
Germany" offers important new perspectives on the nature of
individual and collective memory and is a fascinating investigation
of modern German society.
Barbara Miller graduated from the University of Glasgow in 1991
with a degree in German and psychology. She taught and researched
in Germany and Austria before completing her doctoral thesis in
Glasgow in 1997. She is now based in Sydney, Australia.
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