Volume 44, Number 14 · September 25, 1997
Secret Sharers
By Noel Annan
The File: A Personal History
by Timothy Garton Ash
Random House, 257 pp., $23.00
In Julien Duvivier's pre-war movie Un Carnet de Bal, a woman turns up an old dance program with the names of her beaux and sets out to find what had happened to them twenty years later. In much the same way Timothy Garton Ash decided to look up the informers who had helped the East German security services, the Stasi, to compile a file on him when in 1978 he went to Germany to write his Ph.D. thesis on Berlin under Hitler and spent much of his time in the East.
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