Surveillance, betrayal and social mistrust

Question 1

Lies/Deceit - Stasiland

Answer 1

“I know those cells. There are no exposed pipes. Everything is smooth inside. There are not even bars over the window.”

Question 2

Lies/Deceit - Stasiland

Answer 2

“This is how they gave us a picture of the enemy: in a place where people get no news from the outside world, they have nothing else to believe.”

Question 3

stasiland

Answer 3

‘play spy games seven years after the fall of the Wall’

Question 4

never let me go

Answer 4

‘secret guard’
children are guarding a guardian, seems to be a manifestation of the children being raised in a place shaped by not only surveillance, but also by secrets and a sense of threat.

Question 5

never let me go

Answer 5

“Very well, sometimes that meant we kept things from you, lied to you. Yes, in many ways we fooled you.”

Question 6

stasiland; Herr Bock who was a professor at the Stasi training academy in the area known as Spezialdisziplin, or the science of recruiting informers.

Answer 6

e ‘honest, faithful and trustworthy’ –

‘only towards the ministry’, and the Stasi ‘weren’t interested if he betrayed anyone else’,

Question 7

Guardians confinement

Answer 7

‘Eavesdrop’
Talk private in ‘lunch queue’
Miss Emily ‘knew where you were hiding’

Question 8

Stasi

Answer 8

Informer for every 6.5 citizens
‘The house of 100 eyes
Ticks of the normal man in the street’