Stalisland - Germany

ecember 2006
Everyone knows about the Nazis camps of Auschwitz and Dachau. But few are aware of the systemic oppression that went on under the Stasis. Now some ex-Stasis agents are trying to re-write history.

"I won't apologise for anything. I can only apologise for not having worked more efficiently", states former Stasi spy Peter Wolter. He maintains that the thousands of people tortured and imprisoned were; "quite rightly punished". Along with other ex-agents, Wolter is campaigning to have a museum documenting the suffering of prisoners in Stasi prisons closed. As Anna Funder, author of 'Stasiland' states; "these were people writing doctoral theses on how to destroy a soul". Now thousands of ordinary Germans who had their lives destroyed by the Stasis fear their suffering will be negated.

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[goatshredder]

Top video. I can only recommend 'The Lives of Others' to anyone who hasn't already seen it.

Australian birds FTW.

[hotello2009]

@mrjkt123 absurd comment

[LaSmuffyDeWulf]

@iImplying The point is, the punishment does not fit the crime. Sigrid Paul was traumatised as a consequence of what? Wanting to go to another half of the city to be with her sick baby.

[johnnyfry2]

Writing a thesis on how to destroy ones soul? These evil c suckers deserve all of the outing they receive and they should stand in the public and justify their actions as recorded int he victims files.

[PowerCrumb45]

all secret services are cruel

[foofkanon]

It is America that has subjected the world to the greatest evil over the last 60 years and continues to do so. The exsistence of a communist bloc although hugely flawed at least limited to an extent American policy.

[summer20105707]

@patsyd80

Poor people of Berlin? There were the outspoken people who expressed their concern for Berliners and then there were others with old grudges who couldn't give a damn.

[thetruthisoutthere32]

@iImplying - Biased in that it exposes the truth behind the East German Secret Police. I am sure you agree with the Stasi agents on a great number of things. Apparently, you have an antipathy toward human freedom. Do you currently work for the United States Department of Homeland Security by any chance? Should we just deal with the police state that is being perfected here in the U.S. as well? In my mind, there are a number of ways to deal with such a system and acceptance is not one of them.

[thetruthisoutthere32]

Someone should have added some polonium-210 to the two ex-Stasi agents' coffee and schnapps down there on Karl Marx Avenue. You know, give them a taste of their own medicine. I wonder if they would apologize on their death beds. Communist scum!

[iImplying]

There is a hell of a lot wrong with this documentary. It's ridiculously biased. I agree with the Stasi agent: People weren't just chucked in there for no reason. Sigrid Paul decided to try and cross the wall, and harbored others who were trying to do the same thing. That was illegal. Deal with it.

[thermionic1234567]

I spent ten days in East Germany in 1986 and am still traumatized by how horrible it was. I'm inclined to think East Germany was worse for the average person than Nazi Germany. Keep in mind Jews, Gypsies and the mentally ill were not in that category but were a very small percentage of the population.

[tf2cheats]

those torture tools the show are in the basement of the center building, not used by the stasi but by the russians after the war.