First Class ComradesAfter the Second World War, divided Germany was saturated with spies. Among them were the 'first class comrades' of the Stasi the East German Ministry for State Security. The early Cold War saw the Stasi establish itself as one of the world's most notorious spy and secret police agencies. Drawing on rarely seen files from the Stasi archives, First Class Comrades tells the Stasi story from a fresh perspective: how it helped to create a new European