Stasiland - Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall

Text Publishing, 2002

Funder became aware of the hidden histories of people whose lives had been shaped by one of the most efficient police states in human history. She set out to collect and investigate the stories of both victims and perpetrators of those who had worked for the Stasi (East German secret service) and of those who had been persecuted by it. Stasiland is her brilliant account of this passionate search for a brutal history in the process of being lost, forgotten and destroyed. It is a masterpiece of investigative analysis, written almost like a novel, with a perfect mix of compassion and distance....