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Arrested, interrogated and watched: Ulrike Poppe was a dissident in the former GDR and spent 15 years being spied on by the East German secret police - the Stasi- who installed bugging devices in her home and cameras pointing through the windows. Then, in 1992, after the Berlin Wall had come down, she was granted access to the Stasi archives and discovered 20,000 documents with details about her life and the names of friends and colleagues who'd informed on her. In those pages she also found the name of the Stasi officer in charge of her case and decided to track him down and confront him. This programme was first broadcast in June 2021. Presenter: Andrea Kennedy Interpreter: Jo Impey Producer: Mariana Des Forges Get in touch: outlook@bbc.com or WhatsApp +44 330 678 2707 (Picture: Ulrike Poppe in 1999. Credit: P/F/H/ullstein bild via Getty Images)
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