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ROSTOCK REMEMBERS
FREED FROM ITS PAST, ROSTOCK REMEMBERS EAST GERMAN POLICE STATE
| BY CARL H. LARSEN |
No sooner had I arrived in Rostock, Germany, than I landed in jail.
hat may be a strange place to start an exploration of a pros- 200,000 that I had read about for years. Something that presented
perous and pleasing city that was once part of the formida- a tangible expression of a totalitarian government that for years
Tble Hanseatic League. The league, dubbed the first European had an all-powerful role over the daily lives of its East German
Union, was a trading partnership that wove together cities on the citizens.
Baltic Sea in the late Middle Ages. My jail, you see, was the regional pre-trial prison used by the
But I first needed to see for myself something in this city of East German Ministry for State Security until the fall of the com-
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