Understanding the lives of others
4:23pm
The New York Review of Books has a fantastic piece by Tim Garton Ash on the Stasi, pegged to The Lives of Others, which is one of the best explorations of Germany’s “paradoxical achievement” I have ever read.
Monday, 14th May 2007
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Savanna
May 14th, 2007 6:37pm Report this commentAs a kid of the GDR (grown up in East Berlin) this article makes me think. And wonder.
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