1 Wolf was convicted, but two years later the judgement was overturned by the Federal Constitutional Court, which ruled that former officers of the DDR intelligence service could not be prosecuted for treason and espionage. Whether he was at all grateful for this expression of the rule of law, or even amused by the irony of it, in the Federal Germany of which he now found himself a citizen, and which he had worked so hard and so skilfully to undermine, he does not say in his memoirs. Brandt, incidentally, was one of the people who had spoken out against his prosecution in the first place.