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Shedding Light on East Germany's Secret Police

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Hemma JägerDecember 29, 2011

Germany's law preserving and opening the files of the East German secret police, the Stasi, was passed 20 years ago today. We look back at the efforts needed to rescue the files and establish a public archive.

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