Witnesses to the Berlin Wall
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What Happened to the East Germans?
Siris: It's almost like you're in charge of the baton, which is being handed from one commandant to the next. And at she has great tribute, in a way, to the self discipline of the german people and east german people. The stase operation to monitor that was remarkable. They took out ceiling panels to put in cameras. In in the room where i was taking place, they put in half a dozen agents to pin point certain people. You got a sense of the paranoia that was looking at it. Now, there was a paranoia which was clearly growing at that time. But then, of course, later they, but they lost control of it
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