When Hans Schulze was imprisoned in Communist East Germany back in the 1980s, he...
BERLIN - When Hans Schulze was imprisoned in Communist East Germany back in the 1980s, he never thought he’d ever return once he got out. But now he regularly unlocks his old cell door to show tourists what life was like in a jail run by the Stasi secret police.
Schulze, now 66, was fascinated by the well-dressed woman and they began a relationship. The East-West dimension of their liaison gave Schulze a thrill, but to this day he does not know for sure whether she loved him or was just using him. Such themes of temptation, duplicity and betrayal that marked Cold War-era espionage have come back into focus in the run-up to the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall on Nov. 9 that brought about German reunification.Schulze found out some time after he became romantically involved with the woman that her husband - from whom she was separated - worked for the Stasi, but he did not grasp the full extent until the media reported on her Stasi files in 2009.
Three years before the fall of the Wall, Schulze was arrested at the border as he tried to leave the East. A letter the woman had written about her husband’s work was found in his car, as was some money she wanted Schulze to take to the West. “I can tell you it really hits you hard. You have to absorb it first,” he said of the emotional manipulation. “And I know now that they did it on purpose - that’s what I accuse them of.”
They saw each other in prison but Schulze said their relationship ended around the time they were released, and after reunification in 1990 she became a car saleswoman and hotel director in the West.It was initially hard for Schulze to return to the prison following reunification but he wants to make sure that others - including children born long after East Germany collapsed - know what happened behind the prison’s walls.
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