Nationales Sicherheits-Amt

What if electric computers and the internet existed before the nazi regime and the second world war? This book begins with a glimpse what surveillance and exessive data collection can be used for in a totalitarian regime, effectively even worsening the holocaust. The story is written around two characters, their role in the hypothetical “Nationales Sicherheits-Amt” (National Security Agency) and ultimately their personal fate. The story is gripping, but in my opinion the story is a bit too much focues on the characters and a more broad view is missing. While at the first half of the book you can closely follow the development of a dystopian system, the story disconnects and solely focuses on the characters. Only at the very end, when there isn’t anything to tell anymore, the consequences to the system and the people within are show. I wish there would have been more details here. The end felt a little bit too abrupt for me. Nevertheless I still enjoyed the read and recommend this book.