Was Katarina Witt a Stasi Collaborator?

Michael Pollak mpollak at panix.com
Fri May 10 17:14:47 PDT 2002



> http://www.leftwatch.com/articles/2002/000059.html
>
> Thursday, May 09, 2002
>
> Katarina Witt, the ice skater who won Olympic Gold medals for East
> Germany in 1984 and 1988, was among several people who sued in order to
> prevent the release of the secret files that the Stasi secret police
> kept about her.

This is actually a day late -- Witt withdrew her suit on May 8th. Soon all 181 pages of the file will be public knowledge, fwiw. The general expectation in the German press seems to be that none of it is news and that no one's opinions of her will change.

Michael



More information about the lbo-talk mailing list