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It wasn’t the secret police who were doing this wide-scale surveillance and hiding on every street corner. It was the ordinary German people who were informing on their neighbors.“ [T]he motives found were banal—greed, jealousy, and petty differences.
Later, East Germany's secret police, the Stasi, worked the same way.

From Wikipedia: One of its main tasks was spying on the population, mainly through a vast network of citizens turned informants... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stasi
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