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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.

Showing search results 46-60 of 159
DDR Archiv : Akten 1965-69
DDR Archiv : Akten 1965-69
Scrapbooks; ring binders; photocopies; articles; photographs; texts (documents); lists (document genre)
Maker: [Gerd Heidemann]; Unknown; Various
ID: 2010.103.014.006.006.046
Date Made: 1965-1969; 1960s
DDR Archiv : Akten Jan. - Juni 1970
DDR Archiv : Akten Jan. - Juni 1970
Scrapbooks; ring binders; texts (documents); photocopies; lists (document genre)
Maker: [Gerd Heidemann]; Unknown; Various
ID: 2010.103.014.006.007.047
Date Made: January-June, 1970; 1970s
DDR Archiv : Akten Juli - Dez. 1970
DDR Archiv : Akten Juli - Dez. 1970
Scrapbooks; ring binders; articles; magazine clippings; medals; texts (documents); photocopies; correspondence; newspaper clippings; lists (document genre)
Maker: [Gerd Heidemann]; Unknown; Various
ID: 2010.103.014.006.008.048
Date Made: July-December, 1970; 1970s
DDR Archiv : Akten Jan. - April 1971
DDR Archiv : Akten Jan. - April 1971
Scrapbooks; ring binders; texts (documents); photocopies; correspondence; newspaper clippings
Maker: [Gerd Heidemann]; Unknown; Various
ID: 2010.103.014.007.001.049
Date Made: January-April, 1971; 1970s
DDR Archiv : Akten Mai - Dez. 1971
DDR Archiv : Akten Mai - Dez. 1971
Scrapbooks; ring binders; texts (documents); photocopies; correspondence; newspaper clippings
Maker: [Gerd Heidemann]; Unknown; Various
ID: 2010.103.014.007.002.050
Date Made: May-December, 1971; 1970s
DDR Archiv : Akten 1972
DDR Archiv : Akten 1972
Scrapbooks; ring binders; correspondence; newspaper clippings
Maker: [Gerd Heidemann]; Unknown; Various
ID: 2010.103.014.007.003.051
Date Made: 1972; 1970s
DDR Archiv : Akten 1973
DDR Archiv : Akten 1973
Scrapbooks; ring binders; newspaper clippings; correspondence; texts (documents)
Maker: [Gerd Heidemann]; Unknown; Various
ID: 2010.103.014.007.004.052
Date Made: 1973; 1970s
DDR Archiv : Kampfgruppen : Fotos Juli 1973
DDR Archiv : Kampfgruppen : Fotos Juli 1973
Scrapbooks; ring binders; correspondence; photographs; text (documents)
Maker: [Gerd Heidemann]; Unknown; Various
ID: 2010.103.014.007.005.053
Date Made: July, 1973; 1970s
DDR Archiv : Akten Jan. - April 1974
DDR Archiv : Akten Jan. - April 1974
Scrapbooks; ring binders; newspaper clippings; correspondence; texts (documents)
Maker: [Gerd Heidemann]; Unknown; Various
ID: 2010.103.014.007.006.054
Date Made: January-April, 1974; 1970s
DDR Archiv : NVA. : Fotos Mai - Sept. 1974
DDR Archiv : NVA. : Fotos Mai - Sept. 1974
Scrapbooks; ring binders; newspaper clippings; photocopies; correspondence; magazines (periodicals)
Maker: [Gerd Heidemann]; Unknown; Various
ID: 2010.103.014.007.007.055
Date Made: May-September, 1974; 1970s
DDR Archiv : Akten Okt. 1974
DDR Archiv : Akten Okt. 1974
Scrapbooks; ring binders; magazines (periodicals); newspaper clippings; texts (documents); photocopies; drawings (visual works); plans (maps); lists (document genre); correspondence
Maker: [Gerd Heidemann]; Unknown; Various
ID: 2010.103.014.007.008.056
Date Made: October, 1974; 1970s
DDR Archiv : Fotos : Nov. - Dez. 1974
DDR Archiv : Fotos : Nov. - Dez. 1974
Scrapbooks; ring binders; postcards; black-and-white photographs; sketches; newspaper clippings; magazines (periodicals)
Maker: [Gerd Heidemann]; Unknown; Various
ID: 2010.103.014.008.001.057
Date Made: November-December, 1974; 1970s
DDR Archiv : Akten : Jan. - August 1975
DDR Archiv : Akten : Jan. - August 1975
Scrapbooks; ring binders; photocopies; newspaper clippings; texts (documents); magazines (periodicals); correspondence; postcards
Maker: [Gerd Heidemann]; Unknown; Various
ID: 2010.103.014.008.002.058
Date Made: January-August, 1975; 1970s
DDR Archiv : NVA, DDR : Fotos : Sept. - Dez. 1975
DDR Archiv : NVA, DDR : Fotos : Sept. - Dez. 1975
Scrapbooks; ring binders; postcards; photographs; correspondence; texts (documents)
Maker: [Gerd Heidemann]; Unknown; Various
ID: 2010.103.014.008.003.059
Date Made: September-December, 1975; 1970s
DDR Archiv : Akten : Jan. - Juli 1976
DDR Archiv : Akten : Jan. - Juli 1976
Scrapbooks; ring binders; texts (documents); photocopies; correspondence; postcards; photographs
Maker: [Gerd Heidemann]; Unknown; Various
ID: 2010.103.014.008.004.060
Date Made: January-July, 1976; 1970s
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