Moritz completes a far more dangerous mission and is beginning to enjoy his life in the West. While General Edel meets with NATO colleagues to discuss the Pershing II missiles deployment, Moritz is ordered by Tischbier to break into Hendrik Mayer’s hotel room and steal a top secret security report. He refuses to do so until Tischbier promises to help his mother, Ingrid, who is suffering from diabetes back home in East Germany, where treatment is scarce. When Moritz finally steals the NATO report, his superiors at the HVA in East Berlin cannot read it because it’s not saved on paper—but on a floppy disk. This technological hiccup turns into a humiliating struggle to keep up in the dawning era of the computer, a key example of the diverging paths of Communism and Capitalism.
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