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Nothing in the GDR was as secret as the workings of the Ministry of State Security. The threat posed by the MfS was vague and incalculable. Even those affected often had no idea how far the arm of the MfS extended. For almost 100,000 full-time employees, however, the MfS was their daily workplace. Nine of them, most recently generals or high-ranking officers, now stepped in front of the camera and talked about the inner workings of the MfS apparatus, the attitude to life of its employees and the techniques of the secret service work that had become routine on a daily basis. How did an arrest, an interrogation, the recruitment of an unofficial employee go, and what were the practices in pre-trial detention?

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