Tina Rosenberg

In addition, theStasi possessed 1,181 safe houses, 305 vacation homes, 98 sportsfacilities, and 18,000 apartments for meetings with spies. The Stasi

had a budget of 4 billion East German marks. It had 97,000 full-time employees—after the army, it was East Germany's largest em-ployer.

here were 39separate departments—even a department to spy on other Stasimembers.

—the cards for people named Muller alone reach a hundredyards

The Stasikept a library of smells: a few hundred glass jars containing bits of

dissidents' dirty underwear, so trained dogs could sniff and matchthe smell to an antigovernment pamphlet found on the sidewalk.

Informers sometimes spent more time with their Stasi officersthan with their spouses, and usually the Stasi were the more atten-tive listeners.

That was the meanest thing about the system—it cre-ated trust.

Geschicbtsaufarbeitung, which means aworking through of history, and Vergangenbeitsbewdltigung, orthe business of getting the upper hand on the past.

In the U.S. Zone ofOccupation, which had 15 million inhabitants, 4 million weresummoned.

In the end, only 2.5 percent of Ger-mans were removed from their jobs.

The term"denazification," which had once meant purging German societyof Nazi influence, now meant the opposite: to be "denazified" wasto be whitewashed.