Piecing Together The East German Stasi’s Dark Past

(FEDERALJACK)   Twenty years after the opening of the vast archives left behind by the Stasi — communist East Germany’s despised intelligence service — thousands of collaborators are still being unmasked. Some of their names appear on lists that were hastily shredded in the regime’s dying days but a new digital program is helping to piece the scraps back together.

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