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Anna Funder's Stasiland Chapter Summary
A Character/Chapter Chart of Anna Funder’s Stasiland

The Victims
The Perpetrators
Miriam Weber: Chapters 2, 3, 4, 28
Herr Winz [counter-espionage/anti-infiltration]: Chapter 8
Julia Behrend: Chapters 5, 9, 10, 11, 14 (incl. the rape)
Von Schnitzler [chief propagandist for the GDR]: Chapter 13 and p. 255
Frau Paul: Chapters 21, 22, 23
Herr Christian [code worker/encoding transcripts of intercepted telephone conversations]: Chapter 15

Hagen Koch [technical draftsman & GDR Musterknabe or poster boy/model child]: Chapters 16, 17, 18, 2nd ½ of 26

Herr Bock [recruited and handled Stasi informers]: Chapter 20
NB: interesting to reflect upon what Funder appears to represent as three different forms of heroic survival:
Miriam – defiance: becomes

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