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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 61-75 of 159
DDR Archiv : Akten : Aug. - Dez. 1976
DDR Archiv : Akten : Aug. - Dez. 1976
Scrapbooks; ring binders; texts (documents); photocopies; correspondence; photographs; newspaper clippings
Maker: [Gerd Heidemann]; Unknown; Various
ID: 2010.103.014.008.005.061
Date Made: August-December, 1976; 1970s
DDR Archiv : Fotos, Akten : 1977
DDR Archiv : Fotos, Akten : 1977
Scrapbooks; ring binders; correspondence; newspaper clippings; postcards; texts (documents)
Maker: [Gerd Heidemann]; Unknown; Various
ID: 2010.103.014.008.006.062
Date Made: 1977; 1970s
DDR Archiv : Akten : 1978
DDR Archiv : Akten : 1978
Scrapbooks; ring binders; correspondence; texts (documents); photocopies
Maker: [Gerd Heidemann]; Unknown; Various
ID: 2010.103.014.008.007.063
Date Made: 1978; 1970s
DDR Archiv : Akten : 1979
DDR Archiv : Akten : 1979
Scrapbooks; ring binders; photocopies; correspondence; photographs; texts (documents); lists (document genre)
Maker: [Gerd Heidemann]; Unknown; Various
ID: 2010.103.014.008.008.064
Date Made: 1979; 1970s
DDR Archiv : Akten u. Fotos Jan. - April : 1980
DDR Archiv : Akten u. Fotos Jan. - April : 1980
Scrapbooks; ring binders; black-and-white photographs; texts (documents); photocopies; lists (document genre); correspondence; hardcover books
Maker: [Gerd Heidemann]; Unknown; Various
ID: 2010.103.014.009.001.065
Date Made: January-April, 1980; 1980s
DDR Archiv : Akten u. Fotos : Mai - Juli 1980
DDR Archiv : Akten u. Fotos : Mai - Juli 1980
Scrapbooks; ring binders; texts (documents); photocopies; correspondence; photographs
Maker: [Gerd Heidemann]; Unknown; Various
ID: 2010.103.014.009.002.066
Date Made: May-July, 1980; 1980s
DDR Archiv : Akten u. Fotos : Aug. - Dez. 1980
DDR Archiv : Akten u. Fotos : Aug. - Dez. 1980
Scrapbooks; ring binders; texts (documents); photocopies; correspondence
Maker: [Gerd Heidemann]; Unknown; Various
ID: 2010.103.014.009.003.067
Date Made: August-December, 1980; 1980s
DDR Archiv : Akten : Jan. - Sept. 1981
DDR Archiv : Akten : Jan. - Sept. 1981
Scrapbooks; ring binders; correspondence; texts (documents); photocopies
Maker: [Gerd Heidemann]; Unknown; Various
ID: 2010.103.014.009.004.068
Date Made: January-September, 1981; 1980s
DDR Archiv : Akten : Okt. - Dez. 1981
DDR Archiv : Akten : Okt. - Dez. 1981
Scrapbooks; ring binders; articles; magazine clippings; correspondence; texts (documents); photocopies
Maker: [Gerd Heidemann]; Unknown; Various
ID: 2010.103.014.009.005.069
Date Made: October-December, 1981; 1980s
DDR Archiv : Akten : Jan. - Marz 1982
DDR Archiv : Akten : Jan. - Marz 1982
Scrapbooks; ring binders; correspondence; texts (documents); photocopies
Maker: [Gerd Heidemann]; Unknown; Various
ID: 2010.103.014.009.006.070
Date Made: January-March, 1982; 1980s
DDR Archiv : Akten : April - Mai 1982
DDR Archiv : Akten : April - Mai 1982
Scrapbooks; ring binders; photocopies; correspondence; texts (documents)
Maker: [Gerd Heidemann]; Unknown; Various
ID: 2010.103.014.009.007.071
Date Made: April-May, 1982; 1980s
DDR Archiv : Akten : Juni - Sept. 1982
DDR Archiv : Akten : Juni - Sept. 1982
Scrapbooks; ring binders; correspondence; texts (documents); photocopies
Maker: [Gerd Heidemann]; Unknown; Various
ID: 2010.103.014.009.008.072
Date Made: June-September, 1982; 1980s
DDR Archiv : Akten : Okt. - Dez. 1982
DDR Archiv : Akten : Okt. - Dez. 1982
Scrapbooks; ring binders; photocopies; correspondence; receipts (financial records); lists (document genre); texts (documents)
Maker: [Gerd Heidemann]; Unknown; Various
ID: 2010.103.014.010.001.073
Date Made: October-December, 1982; 1980s
20 Jahre Kampfgruppen der Arbeiterklasse
20 Jahre Kampfgruppen der Arbeiterklasse
Photograph cases; black-and-white photographs
Maker: Unknown
ID: 2010.103.014.010.002.074
Date Made: [circa 1973]; 1970s
DDR Archiv : Akten : Jan. - Febr. 1983
DDR Archiv : Akten : Jan. - Febr. 1983
Scrapbooks; ring binders; texts (documents); correspondence
Maker: [Gerd Heidemann]; Unknown; Various
ID: 2010.103.014.010.003.075
Date Made: January-February, 1983; 1980s
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