Tag: government

  • 10. Erich Mielke’s Breakfast Order

    10. Erich Mielke’s Breakfast Order

    By Caroline West (@Caroline_N_West) The archives of the East German Ministry for State Security (known as the Stasi) are vast. The holdings contain 111 kilometers of documents on the ministry’s operations – and perhaps most significant, its comprehensive and detailed recordings of the private lives of East German citizens. In 1989, aware that public support…