The Decomposition of the Soul

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walter m @Harlequin68 04/27/2010 [font=Century Gothic]"The Decomposition of the Soul" is an insightful documentary about the East German State Police, the Stasi, and the pretrial prisons where people would be kept while awaiting trials for months at a time. Through interrogation and coercion, the Stasi would attempt to break the prisoners psychologically. It seems attempts to break people were not always successful, even if there were deleterious side effects years later.[/font] [font=Century Gothic][/font] [font=Century Gothic]In the documentary, two of the former prisoners, Sigrid Paul and Hartmut Richter, visit the former prisons to talk about their ordeals while other evidence is given by declassified government documents. It is interesting to note that they were both at least tangentially involved with people escaping to the West.(Were these the main crimes the Stasi was interested in?) [/font] See more 11/04/2007 Real sick sad world. See more Read all reviews

The Decomposition of the Soul

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