Reporters - 'Puzzle Women': Piecing together the files destroyed by East Germany's secret police
Archivists in Germany have been working for 30 years to piece together documents destroyed by the Stasi, the East German secret police.
The archivists, known as the 'Puzzle Women', face a monumental task as they meticulously reassemble tiny paper fragments to reconstruct the history of their fellow citizens. Time is running out as the victims of Stasi surveillance are getting older. [ more ]
Reporters - 'Puzzle Women': Piecing together the files destroyed by East Germany's secret police
Archivists in Germany have been working for 30 years to piece together documents destroyed by the Stasi, the East German secret police.
The archivists, known as the 'Puzzle Women', face a monumental task as they meticulously reassemble tiny paper fragments to reconstruct the history of their fellow citizens. Time is running out as the victims of Stasi surveillance are getting older. [ more ]