Quote by Anna Funder
““She says that in January 1990 when the Berliners saw the smoke coming out of the chimneys they came here to protest. They brought bricks and rocks and built a symbolic wall around the building, to get the Stasi to stop burning the files. She says it is extraordinary that, with all those stones, not one was thrown and that, conversely, not one shot was fired from this building.””
![“The penalties for being an accessory to the attempt to flee the [GDR] were greater than the crime of trying to flee itself.” quote by Anna Funder](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/b36/anna-funder-9522_east-germany_the-penalties-for-being-an-accessory-to_200410.jpg)
