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DDR Archiv Scrapbook Collection

Preserved at the Wende Museum in a set of 159 binders, this collection offers a continuous history of the German Democratic Republic (GDR) as seen through different aspects of the activities of the Ministerium für Staatssicherheit (MfS, Ministry for State Security, Stasi). These are arranged in a linear manner covering the history of the organization’s function in East Germany dating from 1945 and the earliest days of the Soviet Occupation Zone through the mid-1990s and the GDR’s dissolution/Treuhand. In these binders activities of the MfS are seen through compilations of secondary documents such as newspaper clippings, articles, copied documents/reports, photographs, publications and a selection of what look to be primary documents that originate from the MfS office or subsidiary offices of the MfS.

Though only one segment of the GDR governing structure, the Ministry encompassed so many areas of controlling authority as to be practically synonymous with the GDR itself. Best known as the surveillance arm of the government, the MfS was also the fiscal authority behind the military economy, foreign trade, passports and tourism, and all matters of intelligence / counterintelligence.

The cataloging and digitization of this collection was made possible by the support of Arcadia – a charitable fund of Lisbet Rausing and Peter Baldwin.

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SBZ Archiv : UFJ Berlin : Akten : Jan. - Juni 1958
SBZ Archiv : UFJ Berlin : Akten : Jan. - Juni 1958
Scrapbooks; ring binders; magazines (periodicals); texts (documents); photocopies
Maker: [Gerd Heidemann]; Unknown; Various
ID: 2010.103.014.004.007.031
Date Made: January-June, 1958; 1950s
SBZ Archiv : UFJ Berlin : Akten : Juli - Dez. 1958
SBZ Archiv : UFJ Berlin : Akten : Juli - Dez. 1958
Scrapbooks; ring binders; magazines (periodicals); texts (documents); photocopies; newspaper clippings
Maker: [Gerd Heidemann]; Unknown; Various
ID: 2010.103.014.004.008.032
Date Made: July-December, 1958; 1950s
SBZ Archiv : UFJ Berlin : Akten : 1959
SBZ Archiv : UFJ Berlin : Akten : 1959
Scrapbooks; ring binders; photocopies; newspaper clippings; notes (documents); receipts (financial records); correspondence; envelopes
Maker: [Gerd Heidemann]; Unknown; Various
ID: 2010.103.014.005.001.033
Date Made: 1959; 1950s
SBZ Archiv : UFJ Berlin : Akten : 1960-69
SBZ Archiv : UFJ Berlin : Akten : 1960-69
Scrapbooks; ring binders; notes (documents); newspaper clippings; letters (correspondence); envelopes; photocopies
Maker: [Gerd Heidemann]; Unknown; Various
ID: 2010.103.014.005.002.034
Date Made: 1960-1969; 1960s
DDR Archiv : Akten : 1961
DDR Archiv : Akten : 1961
Scrapbooks; ring binders; photocopies; magazines (periodicals); photographs
Maker: [Gerd Heidemann]; Unknown; Various
ID: 2010.103.014.005.003.035
Date Made: 1961; 1960s
DDR Archiv : DDR-Zuwanderung : Presse : Maerz - Juli 1961
DDR Archiv : DDR-Zuwanderung : Presse : Maerz - Juli 1961
Scrapbooks; ring binders; newspaper clippings
Maker: [Gerd Heidemann]; Unknown; Various
ID: 2010.103.014.005.004.036
Date Made: March-July, 1961; 1960s
DDR Archiv : DDR-Zuwanderung : Presse : Aug. - Dez. 1961
DDR Archiv : DDR-Zuwanderung : Presse : Aug. - Dez. 1961
Scrapbooks; ring binders; texts (documents); newspaper clippings
Maker: [Gerd Heidemann]; Unknown; Various
ID: 2010.103.014.005.005.037
Date Made: August-December, 1961; 1960s
SBZ Archiv : Hefte : 1962
SBZ Archiv : Hefte : 1962
Scrapbooks; ring binders; summaries
Maker: [Gerd Heidemann]; Unknown; Various
ID: 2010.103.014.005.006.038
Date Made: 1962; 1960s
DDR Archiv : Akten : 1962
DDR Archiv : Akten : 1962
Scrapbooks; ring binders; photocopies; magazines (periodicals); photographs
Maker: [Gerd Heidemann]; Unknown; Various
ID: 2010.103.014.005.007.039
Date Made: 1962; 1960s
DDR Archiv : DDR-Zuwanderung : Presse : Jan. - Juni 1962
DDR Archiv : DDR-Zuwanderung : Presse : Jan. - Juni 1962
Scrapbooks; ring binders; texts (documents); newspaper clippings
Maker: [Gerd Heidemann]; Unknown; Various
ID: 2010.103.014.005.008.040
Date Made: January-June, 1962; 1960s
DDR Archiv : DDR - Zuwanderung : Presse Juli - Dez. 1962
DDR Archiv : DDR - Zuwanderung : Presse Juli - Dez. 1962
Scrapbooks; ring binders; texts (documents); newspaper clippings
Maker: [Gerd Heidemann]; Unknown; Various
ID: 2010.103.014.006.001.041
Date Made: July-December, 1962; 1960s
DDR Archiv : DDR - Zuwanderung : Presse 1963
DDR Archiv : DDR - Zuwanderung : Presse 1963
Scrapbooks; ring binders; texts (documents); newspaper clippings
Maker: [Gerd Heidemann]; Unknown; Various
ID: 2010.103.014.006.002.042
Date Made: 1963; 1960s
DDR Archiv : Akten 1963
DDR Archiv : Akten 1963
Scrapbooks; ring binders; texts (documents); photocopies; lists (document genre)
Maker: [Gerd Heidemann]; Unknown; Various
ID: 2010.103.014.006.003.043
Date Made: 1963; 1960s
DDR Archiv : DDR - Zuwanderung : Presse 1964
DDR Archiv : DDR - Zuwanderung : Presse 1964
Scrapbooks; ring binders; texts (documents); newspaper clippings
Maker: [Gerd Heidemann]; Unknown; Various
ID: 2010.103.014.006.004.044
Date Made: 1963; 1960s
DDR Archiv : Kampfgruppen : Fotos 07 Okt. 1969
DDR Archiv : Kampfgruppen : Fotos 07 Okt. 1969
Scrapbooks; ring binders; photograph albums
Maker: [Gerd Heidemann]; Unknown; Various
ID: 2010.103.014.006.005.045
Date Made: October 7, 1969; 1960s
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