Analysing Stasi files and interviews with one time informers, the author examines the confrontation with this legacy in united Germany. She discusses the daily machinations of the state and the motivation and justification of being an informer.
Graduated from the University of Glasgow in 1991 with a degree in German and Psychology. She taught and researched in Germany and Austria before completing her doctoral thesis in Glasgow in 1997. She is now based in Sydney, Australia.
Innehållsförteckning
Introduction; Chapter 1 ‘A Completely Normal Biography’? (A-3); Chapter 2 The Recruitment Process; Chapter 3 On Motivation; Chapter 4 Between Theory and Practice; Chapter 5 ‘If Only I Had Known’; Chapter 6 Politicians as Informers; Chapter 7 Justice and the Law; Chapter 8 The Guilt Continuum; Chapter 9 Looking Back; Chapter 10 Re-Acquisition of Biography; Chapter 11 Impact and Implications of an Extraordinary Legacy;