The East German regime collected vasts amount of information on opponents, dissidents, or anyone that might act suspicious to the narrow bureaucratic mind. in addition to having friends and family spy and report on each other, they secret police also collect scent samples, as it was trying to develop a system that could detect people from their smell.
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