
Read to you by Karen Cass.
In East Germany, a spy agency called the Stasi built the most sophisticated surveillance network the world has ever seen. For almost 30 years, East Germans were confined physically by the Berlin Wall, but the Stasiβs network of spies and informers was responsible for keeping them in check mentally. Itβs hard to imagine what everyday life is like for victims of a surveillance state. Stasiland is their story.