Stasiland quotes Flashcards
“hold onto power
at all costs. without it you are nothing” -mielke
“the past
is never really over”
“…she didn’t
believe it”
“there was no way they
were going to put me back in that place”
“strike the gdr
“lyrics that promoted
at its marrow”
rebellion…hope”
“you no
longer exist”
“there is no
unemployment in the GDR!”
“east germans
…made themselves innocent of Nazism”
“Frau Paul was
given the deal”
“the wall broke
my heart in two”
“my soul buckled
out of shape forever”
“left psychologically
damaged”
Julia “did not want
to leave the GDR”
“some sort
of justice”
“they break you
like fiction”
” He seems to have learnt
to contain both longing and regret”
“The picture she has of herself
is the one that the Stasi made for her”
asked to recall “her belief in things
…that were not real”
“a poster
boy of the regime”
