Gallery 8:   Foreign Ministry Demolition and Stasi Headquarters

GDR Foreign Ministry, June 1995

September 1995: Preparing the GDR Foreign Ministry for demolition

October 1995: Demolition of the GDR Foreign Ministry

November 1995: Demolition of the GDR Foreign Ministry

GDR Foreign Ministry gone in early 1996

Stasi Building in the Normannenstrasse, September 1995

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"For years Günther Rauch cleaned the streets near Stasi headquarters. After the Wall opened he knew something was going on ...(the files were being burned)... At the gate, Günther Rauch in a reverberating voice demanded to see a ranking officer. As the smoke continued to rise, so did the indignation of the citizens. The Stasi had been stealing pieces of their lives for as long as they remembered and, watching the chimney emissions, they knew it was their files, their lives going up in smoke..." (p. 297)