Word: staatssicherheitsdienst
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Call him Dieter. Do not expect much in the way of personal data -- his exact age, his address, his last name. As far as Dieter is concerned, the only fact that has any meaning these days is that until a few months ago, he was a member of the Staatssicherheitsdienst, the now defunct secret-police force known and reviled by East Germans as the Stasi. Once employment by the elite Stasi was a way of life. Now it is the curse of Dieter's existence. "Everybody has forgotten that we worked to make this country safe," he says. "We were...
...after that daring interview last month, agents of the East German Staatssicherheitsdienst (State Security Service) descended on Bahro's apartment and arrested him on charges of espionage. While he could be sentenced to 15 years of imprisonment, he is just as likely to be summarily exiled to the West...
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