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Access to Records

  • Access to the records in the reading room.
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    Access for Research and Media

    The Stasi Records Archive supports research and media (press, radio and film). It also supports civic education agencies in their political and historical reappraisal of the activities of the State Security Service, the power mechanisms in both the former GDR and Soviet zone of occupation and National Socialist past.

     

  • Application form for private individuals.
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    Access for Private Individuals

    Every individual has the right to view the records that the Ministry for State Security collected about him or her. Since 1992 more than 1.5 million people gained access to their files.

     

  • Index files in the Stasi Records Archive.
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    Access for Public and Private Agencies

    Public and private agencies may receive information from theStasi Records Archive about whether evidence exists to suggest that individuals in prominent social and political positions collaborated in the past with the Ministry for State Security.

     

    • 111

      kilometres of documents are in the Stasi Records Archives. A total of almost 50 kilometres of material is held in the Berlin archive.

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    Information and Services

    • Arial view of Berlin headquarters.

      Stasi Headquarter. Campus for Democracy

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    • Hand-torn documents in the Stasi Records Archive., Source: BStU

      The Reconstruction of Torn Documents

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    • A recreated pile of files is in the centre of one of the exhibition rooms. In the background you see a woman with a child who use the touchscreen., Source: <dreipc data-type="abbreviation" data-uid="5736" data-obj-uid="1">BStU</dreipc> / Popa

      Exhibitions and Museum

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