I found this out recently. One in six East Germans citizens were informers for the Stasi. They weren’t even paid! They just liked telling on people.
The photo is from a fancy dress party where Stasi members came dressed up as their surveillance targets.
I figured out how to turn on comments! Speaking of the Stasi, I'm hearing that Woekus Dei witchfinder in chief Aiden Comerford has deleted his entire Twitter history. How very innocent and above-board of him!
Seriously, no. They didn’t all “like telling on people.” Many were given an almost impossible choice: “We think your daughter belongs in a psychiatric / correctional facility. For how long? We don’t know. But there may be another way...” Have you Anita Funder’s Stasiland? Excellent book.
I admit, that photo is something else, though.