“That’s why she was so shocked when Adelina’s daughter mailed her copies of the files—the Stasi files, after they were opened to the public. It was all right there on the page. My father had been Adelina’s lover. And he had turned her in to the Stasi for anti-revolutionary activity. She was put in the Bautzner Strasse prison and interrogated—” “Tortured,” said Eddie. “Tortured, yes. She didn’t live very long after that.”

