Remember the Stasi, the secret police who operated in East Germany when it was a communist state? |
Betts seeks to look behind the accepted view of the failed communist state as a totalitarian nightmare in the grips of the infamous Stasi. |
On the door are squads of camp couture Stasi in suits and hatchet-faced girls with long legs and lists. |
A brilliant look into the lives of the 1980s East German Stasi and the civilians they spy and eavesdrop on. |
As the Stasi crimes remain largely unatoned in legal terms, they believe it is time to rehabilitate them politically as well. |
Doctors told her she was drugged but did not know what with, and Stasi has no idea who might have slipped her the mickey or why. |