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ANNA You think you have your past filed away under subject headings but, somewhere, it waits to reconnect itself. It's a country that no longer exists, but here I am on a train hurtling through it. East Germany still felt like a secret walled-in garden, a place lost in time. The Stasi was the inter…

ANNA You think you have your past filed away under subject headings but, somewhere, it waits to reconnect itself. It's a country that no longer exists, but here I am on a train hurtling through it. East Germany still felt like a secret walled-in garden, a place lost in time. The Stasi was the internal army by which the government kept control... It was a bureaucracy metastasised through East German society: overt or covert. there was someone reporting to the Stasi on their fellows and friends in