Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall

Anna Funder (2003) A view of East Germany by a semi-outsider, an Australian living in the East. Perhaps this gives a better perspective. The Stasi come across in this book as the most dedicated and efficient secret police force imaginable. They want to known everything – to the extent of imprisoning one of their own agents for not reporting something that he knew would get him into trouble – and…