Stasiland
Subtitle: True Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall
Publisher: Granta Books
Published: May 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9781862075801
Subjects: European history: postwar, from c 1945 -; Social history; True Stories; Modern - 20th Century; Germany - History; History; History - General History; History: World; East Germany, DDR; Germany; Europe - Germany; Travel / Essays & Travelogues; Essays
First sentence: I am hungover and steer myself like a car through the crowds at Alexanderplatz station.
Description: "It's Berlin in the 1990s. A city split for forty years by the Wall is trying to knit itself back together - a city where former Stasi men and their victims now pass one another in the street, and where, just under the surface, the Nazi past now lies buried. When Anna Funder hears of ordinary people who resisted the fearsome Stasi - the Communist regime's secret police - she sets out to investigate the extraordinary stories from the underbelly of the most perfected surveillance state of all time, the former East Germany." "Stasiland is a look at courage, conscience and the extremes of what humans will do to one another."--Jacket.