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The museum is operated by the Antistalinistische Aktion Berlin-Normannenstraße (ASTAK), [3] which was founded by civil rights activists in Berlin in 1990. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] [ 6 ] It aims to foster the development of the museum as a "centre for the collection, preservation, documentation, rehabilitation and exhibition of evidence and research ...
The occupations led to the protection of Stasi files and ended the fear East German citizens had of the Stasi, the last bastion of the SED dictatorship. [50] [9] The Stasi was dissolved on 13 January 1990. [31] In 2013, five of the "Women for Change" were awarded the City of Erfurt's medal of honour for their courage in leading the occupation. [55]
Stasi: The Untold Story of the East German Secret Police. Westview Press. ISBN 978-0-8133-3744-9. Macrakis, Kristie (2008). Seduced by Secrets: Inside the Stasi's Spy-Tech World. New York: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-88747-2. Pickard, Ralph (2007). STASI Decorations and Memorabilia, A Collector's Guide. Frontline Historical ...
The Stasi added a new prison building (using prisoner labour) in the late 1950s. The new building included 200 prison cells and interrogation rooms. After the construction of the Berlin Wall in 1961, the prison was primarily used to house those who wished or attempted to leave East Germany, although political prisoners were also held there.
16th-century Renaissance fortress, includes the City History Museum Spandau, the ZAK Center for Contemporary Art, or the permanent exhibition “Unveiled. Berlin and its Monuments” Sportmuseum Berlin Westend: Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf: Sports: Website, located in Olympiapark, German sports history Stasi Museum: Lichtenberg: Lichtenberg: History
In 2012, the museum at the former Stasi headquarters opened Mielke's office as a permanent exhibit. Soon after, The Guardian correspondent Tam Eastley visited the exhibit and numerous sites in Berlin connected to Mielke's life, times, and legacy. When she visited Mielke's grave, Eastley found that it had become a shrine for adherents of Ostalgie.
The Stasi Records Agency (German: Stasi-Unterlagen-Behörde) was the organisation that administered the archives of Ministry of State Security (Stasi) of the former German Democratic Republic (East Germany). It was a government agency of the Federal Republic of Germany. It was established when the Stasi Records Act came into force on 29 ...
Since 2008, a memorial plaque (commissioned by the Leipzig city council and designed by Gerd Nawroth) at the Arndstraße entrance commemorates the execution site. [4] The site can be visited only twice per year: during Long Night of Museums and during Tag des offenen Denkmals, [8] organised by the Runde Ecke Stasi museum association. [9]