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Bedtime Biography: Stasiland

13 min read 17 min listen Narrated by Sophie
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What’s it about?

In the gray dawn of 1990, ordinary East Germans stormed the Stasi headquarters, uncovering a surveillance state that turned neighbors into informants and homes into prisons—a haunting journey into the aftermath of betrayal.

You’ll learn

  • How the Stasi controlled 16 million people
  • The psychological toll of living under surveillance
  • Why informants betrayed their own families
  • How the past refuses to stay buried