I think it was “Stasi State or Socialist Paradise? The German Democratic Republic and what became of it” by John Green…
It’s a quick read, actually, of 128 pages!
For example, one of the big West German tabloid newspapers reported that in Stasi prisons more than 2,500 prisoners were murdered and thousands committed suicide. In reality, nobody was murdered and in almost four decades, 14 suicides took place in all the holding prisons of the State Security apparatus. [51]
I have heard some things along those lines, but haven’t studied it much. Do you have any reading you’d recommend?
I think it was “Stasi State or Socialist Paradise? The German Democratic Republic and what became of it” by John Green…
It’s a quick read, actually, of 128 pages!
Oh, that’s on my list. Even have it loaded on my Kindle already.