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ERFURT, Germany, March 11 (UPI) -- One percent of the East German population were informers for the secret police in 1989, just before the fall of the Berlin Wall, a German report determined.
The office in Thuringia for researching the Stasi estimates 620,000 people spied for the secret police in the 51 years of East Germany's existence, Deutsche Welle reported. That included 12,000 West Germans.
Helmut Mueller-Enberg, the historian who prepared the report, said most of the spies and informers were motivated by ideology and few were lured by money or blackmailed. About one in 20 Communist Party members in East Germany were Stasi informers.
Mueller-Enberg put the number of informers in East Germany at 189,000 in 1989, 15,000 more than previous estimates.
The report is to be published Thursday.
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