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Leipzig's Eerie Stasi Museum, Full Of History And Terror

First Posted: 12/10/10 04:54 PM ET Updated: 05/25/11 07:20 PM ET

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The Berlin wall came down in 1989, reuniting East and West Germany. But though the German Democratic Republic is no more, there is still, in the city of Leipzig, one chilling reminder of the dreaded Stasi (SSD), the secret police of the GDR. It is the Stasi Museum and it encompasses the original rooms of a Stasi headquarters.

Located in the stately 19th century building known as "Runde Ecke" -- the Round Building -- the museum features a powerful permanent exhibit called "Stasi - Power and Banality." Walk through the rooms where the secret police operated a sinister network of spying and terror and it becomes clear how the Stasi infiltrated every aspect of the everyday life in the GDR.

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The Berlin wall came down in 1989, reuniting East and West Germany. But though the German Democratic Republic is no more, there is still, in the city of Leipzig, one chilling reminder of the dreaded S...
The Berlin wall came down in 1989, reuniting East and West Germany. But though the German Democratic Republic is no more, there is still, in the city of Leipzig, one chilling reminder of the dreaded S...
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12:34 AM on 12/12/2010
good to be able to see and learn about what happened, especially for the younger generation. That's called "Die Vergangenheit aufarbeiten" (to come to term with the past).

I wish we would do the same thing here so openly. Firstly to account for our past, and secondly to come to terms with it.
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10:20 PM on 12/11/2010
If you can't go there, see the great German movie The Lives of Others.
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valhalladad
Justice went out of style too soon
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09:15 PM on 12/10/2010
Why go there to see it when we can experience the same tactics here in 'free' America?
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