Opinion by Katja Hoyer: Germany is still trying to crack the Stasi puzzle
on both left and right is causing widespread anxiety, while right-wing populist regimes in Hungary and Poland are undermining democratic institutions in Berlin’s own neighborhood.Given this background, Germans have an urgent interest in achieving a full understanding of the most extensive surveillance state Europe has ever experienced.
For decades, Germany has been trying to reassemble the shredded Stasi files. Archivists spread out bits of paper by hand, then match them up and glue them together. Last year,were reconstructed in this way — but that was a drop in the ocean. In the past three decades, the puzzle-solvers have processed a mere 600 sacks of paper, less than 4 percent of the total.
Germany is determined to find a better solution. The Federal Archives, the agency that looks after the Stasi files, recently announced that it’s searching for new information technology to speed up the process. The archive’s director, Michael Hollmann,He’s right. Many East Germans fought hard to preserve this evidence. A few weeks after the fall of the Berlin Wall, people in the city of Erfurt noticed thick clouds of smoke hanging over their city.
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