When considering the recovery of people, and every other aspect of “Stasiland”, it is necessary to be clear what the Founders value, in terms of this topic. Each story received is filtered through its purpose and perspective, Funder is intent on having her interviewees reconcile with their past, as she is aware that recovery can take a long time, but more importantly, it can cause people to separate from their past and leave it behind. , as an issue that has been addressed and finalized. Therefore in "Stasiland" reconstruction does not exist, as it not only deems it necessary for people to remain attached to their past for the creation of their future, but most people are unable to recover due to the absence of a life previous, which these people classified as worthy of returning and recreating. However, reconciliation is, for many, associated with healing. As readers it is not possible to conclude that the characters are not yet able to regain their sense of presence and importance in the world, because we have not been subjected to this level of oppression, so the recovery looks very different from what we construct of the Germans of the 'east. The German environment remains harsh and unforgiving: “In northern Germany I live on the gray part of the spectrum: gray buildings, gray earth, gray birds and gray trees.” This is the message Funder gets from his opening remarks, the color and life of the country and its people have been removed, or potentially never existed. Consequently, how can we expect people like Julia and Miriam to rebuild their lives if they have been rejected by society, to the point that outsiders classify them as “oppressed whiners” who “have had communism for forty years, and now o. .. .... half of the paper ...... do not appear defined by the past, as Julia and Miriam, receive the necessary attention, and are therefore not dismissed as invalid or useless for the history of Germany, based on the their level of shame and embarrassment about their past. The reassurance it provides for these characters to reconcile with their past creates a stable and positive future, because no matter how hard these people may try to fully recover, the brutality and mental damage caused by the regime will always ensure that the past is in ambush. somewhere in the shadows of their future. It is also necessary, as an outsider, not to underestimate the actions taken by these characters and, consequently, classify them as minimal. The eventual happiness and reentry they manage to create for themselves is great in the scheme of their past, and is truly a step towards healing, aided by time and effort...