Stasiland Quotes (Section B) Flashcards
Quotes on power
“Most often people were approached would inform for us. It was very rare that they would not.”
“Informers got the feeling that doing it they were somebody.”
“the picture she has of herself is one that the Stasi made for her” (Anna about Frau Paul)
Quotes on surveillance
“The most perfected surveillance state of all time.”
“…it’s the total surveillance that damaged me the worst.”
“You had to be chosen.”
“I realised for the first time that it wasn’t really the good father state you had in the back of your mind.”
Quotes on memory
“To remember or to forget. Which is healthier?”
“they just want to stop thinking about the past. They want to pretend it all didn’t happen”
“Not only for what it hides and what it alters, but also what it reveals”
Quotes on isolation
The wall “cut a strange wound through the city”.
Von Schnitzler states that the Berlin wall was “the most useful construction in all of German history”
Quotes on propaganda
…how this man “turned inhumanity into humanity.” - Propoganda/ Spin
Quotes on lies
“This society - it was built on lies.”
“Underneath the need to know, is the need for justice.”
Quotes on love
“Miriam didn’t believe it.”
“the past stopped when Charlie died”
