With its 91,000 full-time employees and approximately 180,000 informants, the Ministry for State Security (Stasi) collected, processed, and archived millions of pieces of information about the East German population and other countries until the fall of the Berlin Wall.
While courageous citizens took to the streets in the autumn of 1989, loudly expressing their discontent with the SED regime, Stasi officers secretly destroyed the traces of their illegal activities. The storming of the Stasi headquarters on January 15, 1990, put an end to this destruction of files in Berlin.
Today, the documents of the East German secret police that were secured at that time are kept in the Stasi Records Archive. During the guided tour of the permanent exhibition and in the archive rooms, participants learn more about the events of the autumn and winter of 1989/90, the reconstruction of so-called "pre-destroyed" documents, and the significant challenges of preserving these records.
Following the guided tour, you can visit the sample file collection of the Stasi Records Archive and submit an application for file access on site.
The number of participants is limited to 15. Advance registration is possible by emailing Einblick-ins-geheime@bundesarchiv.de or calling +49 30 18 665-6699.
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Dates
December 2025
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