The Grey Men: Pursuing the Stasi into the Present

‘Fascinating and powerful.’ Sunday Times

What do you do with a hundred thousand idle spies?

By 1990 the Berlin Wall had fallen and the East German state security service folded. For forty years, they had amassed more than a billion pages in manila files detailing the lives of their citizens. Almost a hundred thousand Stasi employees, many of them experienced officers with access to highly personal information, found themselves unemployed overnight.

This is the story of what they did next.

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