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Germany: Looking through DDR Stasi files

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July 3, 2021

The Stasi, the intelligence service in communist East Germany, spied on Silke Orphal and Ilona Seeber for years, but it wasn't until the two women went through their files that they realized how pervasive the surveillance had been.

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