Mar. 26th, 2018

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Latest Angel review from Ian -

TPN’s Angel Guide -
I've Got You Under My Skin • Srason 1 Ep. 14


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In my review of Stasiland i forgot to explain the reference to puzzle-women. So from the DW website -

The Stasi puzzle with 600 million pieces


After the fall of the Berlin Wall, officials in the former East Germany did everything they could to destroy documents. But modern technology could now help piece together the puzzle.


http://www.dw.com/en/the-stasi-puzzle-with-600-million-pieces/a-17039143



Reconstructing pieces Copyright: Fraunhofer IPK/Gerold Baumhauer




"The former East Germany Ministry of State Security, better known by its acronym Stasi, spied on citizens for more than 40 years and kept documents of everything in thousands of files, ranging from interrogation transcripts and intercepted mail to internal documents on espionage and business connections with the West. But after the fall of the Berlin Wall, Stasi staff tried to destroy as many of those documents as possible, and what they couldn't destroy with shredders, they did by hand.

What they left behind were more than 15,000 sacks full of an estimated 600 million pieces of torn documents. Five years after the Wall fell, 40 employees of the German agency in charge of salvaging the documents opened the first bags and began piecing the fragments together by hand. Their contents are of immense importance for understanding how the East German regime functioned."




Women in archive Copyright: Tannhof

Some people are still puting together the pieces by hand and these are known as puzzle-women.
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In my review of Stasiland i forgot to explain the reference to puzzle-women. So from the DW website -

The Stasi puzzle with 600 million pieces


After the fall of the Berlin Wall, officials in the former East Germany did everything they could to destroy documents. But modern technology could now help piece together the puzzle.


http://www.dw.com/en/the-stasi-puzzle-with-600-million-pieces/a-17039143



Reconstructing pieces Copyright: Fraunhofer IPK/Gerold Baumhauer




"The former East Germany Ministry of State Security, better known by its acronym Stasi, spied on citizens for more than 40 years and kept documents of everything in thousands of files, ranging from interrogation transcripts and intercepted mail to internal documents on espionage and business connections with the West. But after the fall of the Berlin Wall, Stasi staff tried to destroy as many of those documents as possible, and what they couldn't destroy with shredders, they did by hand.

What they left behind were more than 15,000 sacks full of an estimated 600 million pieces of torn documents. Five years after the Wall fell, 40 employees of the German agency in charge of salvaging the documents opened the first bags and began piecing the fragments together by hand. Their contents are of immense importance for understanding how the East German regime functioned."




Women in archive Copyright: Tannhof

Some people are still puting together the pieces by hand and these are known as puzzle-women.
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On my journeys again.It  is a lovely sunny day .I was going to do a job in Canterbury but due to wring directions given i will now do this another day. So first location i am heading towards is Hythe fro a chaory shop visit. Then up to Westwood Cross to do that mobile phone store job and then the cinema at Westgate to see Tomb Raider. Hence i will be back late. 

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