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The Firm - The Inside Story of the Stasi (Hardcover)
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The Firm - The Inside Story of the Stasi (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Oral History Series
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Based on previously classified documents and on interviews with
former secret police officers and ordinary citizens, The Firm is
the first comprehensive history of East Germany's secret police,
the Stasi, at the grassroots level. Focusing on Gransee and
Perleberg, two East German districts located north of Berlin, Gary
Bruce reveals how the Stasi monitored small-town East Germany. He
paints an eminently human portrait of those involved with this
repressive arm of the government, featuring interviews with former
officers that uncover a wide array of personalities, from devoted
ideologues to reluctant opportunists, most of whom talked frankly
about East Germany's obsession with surveillance. Their paths after
the collapse of Communism are gripping stories of resurrection and
despair, of renewal and demise, of remorse and continued adherence
to the movement. The book also sheds much light on the role of the
informant, the Stasi's most important tool in these out-of-the-way
areas. Providing on-the-ground empirical evidence of how the Stasi
operated on a day-to-day basis with ordinary people, this
remarkable volume offers an unparalleled picture of life in a
totalitarian state.
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