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Re:The Man Who Disobeyed His Boss and Opened the Berlin Wall by MCRed on Saturday November 08, 2014 @12:25PM (#8577495)
If you ever find yourself in Berlin, there's a wonderful East Germany Museum, which covers some of this.

http://www.ddr-museum.de/en

One of the exhibits that made an impression on me was a wall of jars with cloth in them.

The stassi collected the Scents of people and kept them in their files, in case they ever needed to give dogs the persons sent during a manhunt!

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Re:The Man Who Disobeyed His Boss and Opened the Berlin Wall by brightsize on Saturday November 08, 2014 @09:51PM (#8578936)
That museum is good fun, though extremely touristy. For a really deep dive, be sure to visit the Stasi Museum. The guided tour is excellent. http://www.stasi-museum.de/en/enindex.htm
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Re:The Man Who Disobeyed His Boss and Opened the Berlin Wall by rmc on Sunday November 09, 2014 @02:22PM (#8580592)
I would suggest the Stasi museum (in their former headquaters). It's a much better museum for finding out about how repressive it was.

The DDR museum has many mundane things like "what type of soap they had in East Germany". The Stasi musuem makes you realise how oppressive it was. Letters from school children written to people who build the Berlin Wall thanking them for building the wall to protect the East German people, etc.

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