So what did you think of the Das Leben der Anderen film? I believe it won the Oscar for Best Foreign Film in 2006. I saw interviews with some of the cast and a lot of them were former East German actors and they said it was scarier than the story they told in the film.
In case you didn't believe the above said, take a look at this fresh news: https://www.rt.com/news/540662-nazis-germany-prosecutor-office-inquiry/ " Study reveals how long it took Germany to rid its justice system of Nazis 18 Nov, 2021 18:25 An official inquiry has found that Germany’s justice system was staffed with former Nazis for decades after the Second World War, At one point, three out of four top officials at the prosecutor’s office were former party members. Released on Thursday, the 600-page report was compiled by historian Friedrich Kiessling and legal scholar Christoph Safferling, and covers the Cold War period running from the early 1950s until 1974. The work was commissioned by the federal prosecutor’s office. The researchers found that, at one point during the 1950s, roughly three in four top officials in the federal prosecutor’s office had been members of the Nazi Party. It took until 1972 before former Nazis were no longer in the majority in that office, and until 1992 before the judicial system had been fully purged of ex-members of the fascist party. ... " IMO nowadays they are still there, if not as NSDAP members like the old ones.