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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 91-105 of 159
DDR Archiv : Akten : Okt. - Dez. 1985
DDR Archiv : Akten : Okt. - Dez. 1985
Scrapbooks; ring binders; photocopies; correspondence
Maker: [Gerd Heidemann]; Unknown; Various
ID: 2010.103.014.012.004.091
Date Made: October-December, 1985; 1980s
DDR Archiv : Akten : Jan. - Febr. 1986
DDR Archiv : Akten : Jan. - Febr. 1986
Scrapbooks; ring binders; texts (documents); photocopies; correspondence; calendars (documents)
Maker: [Gerd Heidemann]; Unknown; Various
ID: 2010.103.014.012.005.092
Date Made: January-February, 1986; 1980s
DDR Archiv : Akten : Maerz 1986
DDR Archiv : Akten : Maerz 1986
Scrapbooks; ring binders; texts (documents); photocopies; correspondence
Maker: [Gerd Heidemann]; Unknown; Various
ID: 2010.103.014.012.006.093
Date Made: March, 1986; 1980s
DDR Archiv : Akten : April 1986
DDR Archiv : Akten : April 1986
Scrapbooks; ring binders; photocopies; correspondence; black-and-white photographs; texts (documents)
Maker: [Gerd Heidemann]; Unknown; Various
ID: 2010.103.014.012.007.094
Date Made: April, 1986; 1980s
DDR Archiv : Akten : Mai - Juli 1986
DDR Archiv : Akten : Mai - Juli 1986
Scrapbooks; ring binders; correspondence; texts (documents); photocopies; notes (documents)
Maker: [Gerd Heidemann]; Unknown; Various
ID: 2010.103.014.012.008.095
Date Made: May-July, 1986; 1980s
DDR Archiv : Akten : August - Oktober 1986
DDR Archiv : Akten : August - Oktober 1986
Scrapbooks; ring binders; black-and-white photographs; correspondence; photocopies; lists (document genre); texts (documents)
Maker: [Gerd Heidemann]; Unknown; Various
ID: 2010.103.014.013.001.096
Date Made: August-October, 1986; 1980s
DDR Archiv : Akten : Nov. - Dez. 1986
DDR Archiv : Akten : Nov. - Dez. 1986
Scrapbooks; ring binders; texts (documents); photocopies; correspondence; lists (document genre); invoices; receipts (financial records); photographs
Maker: [Gerd Heidemann]; Unknown; Various
ID: 2010.103.014.013.002.097
Date Made: November-December, 1986; 1980s
DDR Archiv : Akten : Jan. - April 1987
DDR Archiv : Akten : Jan. - April 1987
Scrapbooks; ring binders; correspondence; texts (documents); articles; black-and-white photographs; photocopies
Maker: [Gerd Heidemann]; Unknown; Various
ID: 2010.103.014.013.003.098
Date Made: January-April, 1987; 1980s
DDR Archiv : Akten : Mai 1987
DDR Archiv : Akten : Mai 1987
Scrapbooks; ring binders; photocopies; correspondence; charts (graphic documents)
Maker: [Gerd Heidemann]; Unknown; Various
ID: 2010.103.014.013.004.099
Date Made: May, 1987; 1980s
DDR Archiv : Akten : Juni - Aug. 1987
DDR Archiv : Akten : Juni - Aug. 1987
Scrapbooks; ring binders; texts (documents); photocopies; correspondence; lists (document genre); invoices; receipts (financial records); photographs
Maker: [Gerd Heidemann]; Unknown; Various
ID: 2010.103.014.013.005.100
Date Made: June-August, 1987; 1980s
DDR Archiv : MFS : Diensteinheiten Schluessel : Aug. 1987
DDR Archiv : MFS : Diensteinheiten Schluessel : Aug. 1987
Scrapbooks; ring binders; photocopies; lists (document genres)
Maker: [Gerd Heidemann]; Unknown; Various
ID: 2010.103.014.013.006.101
Date Made: August, 1987; 1980s
DDR Archiv : Akten : Sept. 1987
DDR Archiv : Akten : Sept. 1987
Scrapbooks; ring binders; photocopies; postcards; texts (documents)
Maker: [Gerd Heidemann]; Unknown; Various
ID: 2010.103.014.013.007.102
Date Made: September, 1987; 1980s
DDR Archiv : Akten : Oktober 1987
DDR Archiv : Akten : Oktober 1987
Scrapbooks; ring binders; texts (documents); photocopies; correspondence
Maker: [Gerd Heidemann]; Unknown; Various
ID: 2010.103.014.013.008.103
Date Made: October, 1987; 1980s
DDR Archiv : NVA der DDR : Fotos : Okt. 1987
DDR Archiv : NVA der DDR : Fotos : Okt. 1987
Scrapbooks; ring binders; color photographs
Maker: [Gerd Heidemann]; Unknown; Various
ID: 2010.103.014.014.001.104
Date Made: October, 1987; 1980s
DDR Archiv : Akten : Nov. 1987
DDR Archiv : Akten : Nov. 1987
Scrapbooks; ring binders; texts (documents); correspondence; photocopies; invoices; receipts (financial records); black-and-white photographs; forms (documents);
Maker: [Gerd Heidemann]; Unknown; Various
ID: 2010.103.014.014.002.105
Date Made: November, 1987; 1980s
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