[Snickering Hound]

Am I wrong, but wasn’t Merkel part of the Stasi?

She didn't work for the Stasi.

She and her father both deny being informers for the Stasi, hard to prove either way.

Much the Stasi files were shredded in that time between the collapse of the Berlin Wall and Reunification.

They are trying slowly put together the pieces that they've recovered.

[Sam Gamgee]

Thanks for clarifying.