Puzzle-Women
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jazzy_daveIn 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
"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."
Some people are still puting together the pieces by hand and these are known as puzzle-women.
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
"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."
Some people are still puting together the pieces by hand and these are known as puzzle-women.
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