The grey men : pursuing the stasi into the present
Hope, Ralph2021
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By 1990 the Berlin Wall had fallen and the East German state security service folded. During forty years, they had amassed more than a billion pages in manila files detailing the lives of their citizens. Overnight, almost a hundred thousand Stasi employees, many of them experienced officers with access to highly personal information, found themselves unemployed. This is the story of what they did next. Former FBI Agent Ralph Hope uses critical insider knowledge and access to Stasi records to track and expose ex-officers working everywhere from the Russian energy sector to the police and even the government department tasked with prosecuting Stasi crimes. He examines why the key players have never been called to account and, in doing so, asks whether we have really learned from the past at all.
Main title:
The grey men : pursuing the stasi into the present / Ralph Hope.
Author:
Hope, Ralph, author
Imprint:
London : Oneworld, 2021.
Collation:
320 pages ; 23 cm
ISBN:
9781786078278 (hbk. :)
Language:
English
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BRN:
1931968
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