Posted on 01/25/2018 11:28:36 AM PST by detective
According to some here the Stasi were merely collecting information like a census taker, certainly not undertakers - they got a bad rep evidently. Information collectors by definition don’t take prisoners certainly, at least it seems for some.
Sorry your Dad had to go through all that - it was a very rough time for a lot of people. But in the end he was finally able to realize his dream, a good thing for anyone.
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