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'Puzzlers' reassemble shredded Stasi files, bit by bit
LATimes ^ | November 1, 2009 | Kate Connolly

Posted on 11/01/2009 7:20:33 AM PST by Pan_Yan

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The shredded files, which any good German bureaucrat knows as vorvernichtete Akten or pre-destroyed files -- fill a staggering 16,000 mail sacks that contain about 45 million individual pages, or 600 million scraps. Thus far, the puzzlers are 440 sacks into the process.

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"However many documents I piece together, it'll never cease to amaze and shock me the extent to which friends, colleagues, even husbands and wives, went to betray each other. It shows you what a poison regime it was," she says.

(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...


TOPICS: History
KEYWORDS: communism; ddr; stazi
Interesting read about what we nave to look forward to under communism.
1 posted on 11/01/2009 7:20:37 AM PST by Pan_Yan
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To: Pan_Yan

‘nave’ does not equal ‘have’


2 posted on 11/01/2009 7:22:03 AM PST by Pan_Yan (All gray areas are fabrications.)
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To: Pan_Yan
the extent to which friends, colleagues, even husbands and wives, went to betray each other.

Not just who was willing to betray who but also over every little thing like: person came home at 20:00 took a bath and play music for an hour.

Just insane crap like that which some twisted imagination turned into a big deal.

3 posted on 11/01/2009 7:26:47 AM PST by Berlin_Freeper (give total war a chance)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

Criminal records carry over from the old DDR to the new Germany, so hundreds of thousands of people are requesting their files to prove they were convicted on false pretenses. We were alarmed by Waco. People should take a look at what we have coming if things don’t change.


4 posted on 11/01/2009 7:41:12 AM PST by Pan_Yan (All gray areas are fabrications.)
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To: Pan_Yan

Reminds me of a movie recommendation: “The Lives of Others”. Excellent, rent it if you haven’t seen it.


5 posted on 11/01/2009 7:51:29 AM PST by FrdmLvr ("The people will believe what the media tells them they believe." Orwell)
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To: FrdmLvr

I just looked it up. I’ll see if I can find a copy.

Thanks.


6 posted on 11/01/2009 8:06:25 AM PST by Pan_Yan (All gray areas are fabrications.)
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“It’ll never cease to amaze and shock me the extent to which friends, colleagues, even husbands and wives, went to betray each other. It shows you what a poison regime it was,”

Your future on Obamunism....
Have you denounced an old person to FLAG@whitehouse.Gov, yet?


7 posted on 11/01/2009 8:42:03 AM PST by tcrlaf ("Hope" is the most Evil of all Evils"-Neitzsche)
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To: tcrlaf

ping for later


8 posted on 11/01/2009 8:45:11 AM PST by Shimmer1 (Froggie sez water nice and warm)
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To: FrdmLvr
Reminds me of a movie recommendation: “The Lives of Others”. Excellent, rent it if you haven’t seen it.

The "Lives of Others" is simply one of the best thriller/drama movies I've seen in years.

Another is the Chinese movie "Blind Shaft". Though a bit harder to understand, very eye opening.

9 posted on 11/01/2009 9:44:26 AM PST by The_Media_never_lie
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