In an attention-grabbing two-page editorial, the entrepreneurial couple, Silke and Holger Friedrich, urged a reimagining of history since German reunification. They argued that 30 years after the wall came down, East Germans should wrest back control of their own narrative from the West, and stirred controversy by defending the last East German leader. A week later, a rival newspaper reported that Mr. Friedrich, 53, had been an informant for the Stasi, the feared secret police of Communist East Germany in the late 1980s. Instead of apologizing, Mr. Friedrich chose to come out fighting. But at the same time, he acknowledged that he could not be sure whether anyone was harmed as a result of his actions.

Source: New York Times December 15, 2019 22:41 UTC