Germany shocked by the other lives of civil servants
Twenty years after Berlin Wall fell, more than 17,000 former Stasi members are still working for the state By Tony Paterson Saturday, 11 July 2009 Berliners and the citizens of eastern Germany are struggling to digest the news that thousands of former members of the dreaded Stasi secret police were working as their local civil servants, police officers and teachers, almost 20 years after the Iron Curtain collapsed. More than 17,000 staff currently employed by Berlin and eastern German