Photographs from the archives of the Stasi, East Germany's legendary, paranoid secret police

Would I need permission to swing by your home and take a couple of snaps of, oh I don’t know, maybe your tax records or the stuff you keep in the bottom drawer of the nightstand?
A lot of the files are about living persons, who (now) have certain rights concerning their privacy.
So yes, you’ll have to make an appointment, which is easy enough to arrange.
I guess ‘cleverly, I worked my way into a secret archive’ sounds cooler than ‘I filled out a form and waited for the department to get back to me’.

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