As the German Democratic Republic fell into disarray during 1989, the Ministry of State Security (Stasi) found itself stranded. Without direction from the government, employees of the intelligence organisation began tearing up documents from its vast archive of information, destroying the evidence of the State’s extensive spying on some six million members of its own population.
News of the shredding spread quickly and the Stasi headquarters in East Berlin became a centre of protest and occupation. Crowds stormed the building to stop the destruction, saving over 100 shelf-kilometres of filed information. The shredded files were also salvaged and a team of “puzzlers” continues working to this day, painstakingly reassembling documents and images to reveal a more complete picture of life as watched over by the GDR Big Brother. I (gk)
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