Inside Stasi 1/29

Interrogation room, Gedenkstaette Berlin-Hohenschoenhausen

OSTKREUZ photographer Thomas Meyer went to search for the traces of the Secret Police of the GDR. He found places where the executors of the socialistic law – the Staatssicherheit – operated. The different sections of the "Stasi" were spread throughout the GDR. The prison in Berlin Hohenschoenhausen is preserved as a museum and the former “ministry for the safety of the state” is still an authority with millions of files to manage and research.
Thomas Meyer found filing cabinets, magnetic tapes, smell examples and devotional objects as well as the current administrative machinery and the working employees.
Observing tools and prison cells represent the inhuman methods of the Secret Police of the GDR still today and get oppressively vivid with the reserved view of Thomas Meyer.


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Inside Stasi 2/29

Prisoner transporter, Gedenkstaette Berlin-Hohenschoenhausen

OSTKREUZ photographer Thomas Meyer went to search for the traces of the Secret Police of the GDR. He found places where the executors of the socialistic law – the Staatssicherheit – operated. The different sections of the "Stasi" were spread throughout the GDR. The prison in Berlin Hohenschoenhausen is preserved as a museum and the former “ministry for the safety of the state” is still an authority with millions of files to manage and research.
Thomas Meyer found filing cabinets, magnetic tapes, smell examples and devotional objects as well as the current administrative machinery and the working employees.
Observing tools and prison cells represent the inhuman methods of the Secret Police of the GDR still today and get oppressively vivid with the reserved view of Thomas Meyer.


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Inside Stasi 3/29

Photographic room, Gedenkstaette Berlin-Hohenschoenhausen

OSTKREUZ photographer Thomas Meyer went to search for the traces of the Secret Police of the GDR. He found places where the executors of the socialistic law – the Staatssicherheit – operated. The different sections of the "Stasi" were spread throughout the GDR. The prison in Berlin Hohenschoenhausen is preserved as a museum and the former “ministry for the safety of the state” is still an authority with millions of files to manage and research.
Thomas Meyer found filing cabinets, magnetic tapes, smell examples and devotional objects as well as the current administrative machinery and the working employees.
Observing tools and prison cells represent the inhuman methods of the Secret Police of the GDR still today and get oppressively vivid with the reserved view of Thomas Meyer.


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Inside Stasi 4/29

Cell, Gedenkstaette Berlin-Hohenschoenhausen

OSTKREUZ photographer Thomas Meyer went to search for the traces of the Secret Police of the GDR. He found places where the executors of the socialistic law – the Staatssicherheit – operated. The different sections of the "Stasi" were spread throughout the GDR. The prison in Berlin Hohenschoenhausen is preserved as a museum and the former “ministry for the safety of the state” is still an authority with millions of files to manage and research.
Thomas Meyer found filing cabinets, magnetic tapes, smell examples and devotional objects as well as the current administrative machinery and the working employees.
Observing tools and prison cells represent the inhuman methods of the Secret Police of the GDR still today and get oppressively vivid with the reserved view of Thomas Meyer.


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Inside Stasi 5/29

Prison yard, Gedenkstaette Berlin-Hohenschoenhausen

OSTKREUZ photographer Thomas Meyer went to search for the traces of the Secret Police of the GDR. He found places where the executors of the socialistic law – the Staatssicherheit – operated. The different sections of the "Stasi" were spread throughout the GDR. The prison in Berlin Hohenschoenhausen is preserved as a museum and the former “ministry for the safety of the state” is still an authority with millions of files to manage and research.
Thomas Meyer found filing cabinets, magnetic tapes, smell examples and devotional objects as well as the current administrative machinery and the working employees.
Observing tools and prison cells represent the inhuman methods of the Secret Police of the GDR still today and get oppressively vivid with the reserved view of Thomas Meyer.


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Inside Stasi 6/29

Vera Lengsfeld, politian and former political prisoner

OSTKREUZ photographer Thomas Meyer went to search for the traces of the Secret Police of the GDR. He found places where the executors of the socialistic law – the Staatssicherheit – operated. The different sections of the "Stasi" were spread throughout the GDR. The prison in Berlin Hohenschoenhausen is preserved as a museum and the former “ministry for the safety of the state” is still an authority with millions of files to manage and research.
Thomas Meyer found filing cabinets, magnetic tapes, smell examples and devotional objects as well as the current administrative machinery and the working employees.
Observing tools and prison cells represent the inhuman methods of the Secret Police of the GDR still today and get oppressively vivid with the reserved view of Thomas Meyer.


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Inside Stasi 7/29

Prison courtroom, Gedenkstaette Berlin-Hohenschoenhausen

OSTKREUZ photographer Thomas Meyer went to search for the traces of the Secret Police of the GDR. He found places where the executors of the socialistic law – the Staatssicherheit – operated. The different sections of the "Stasi" were spread throughout the GDR. The prison in Berlin Hohenschoenhausen is preserved as a museum and the former “ministry for the safety of the state” is still an authority with millions of files to manage and research.
Thomas Meyer found filing cabinets, magnetic tapes, smell examples and devotional objects as well as the current administrative machinery and the working employees.
Observing tools and prison cells represent the inhuman methods of the Secret Police of the GDR still today and get oppressively vivid with the reserved view of Thomas Meyer.


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Inside Stasi 8/29

Ministry of state security buildings, Berlin Normannenstrasse

OSTKREUZ photographer Thomas Meyer went to search for the traces of the Secret Police of the GDR. He found places where the executors of the socialistic law – the Staatssicherheit – operated. The different sections of the "Stasi" were spread throughout the GDR. The prison in Berlin Hohenschoenhausen is preserved as a museum and the former “ministry for the safety of the state” is still an authority with millions of files to manage and research.
Thomas Meyer found filing cabinets, magnetic tapes, smell examples and devotional objects as well as the current administrative machinery and the working employees.
Observing tools and prison cells represent the inhuman methods of the Secret Police of the GDR still today and get oppressively vivid with the reserved view of Thomas Meyer.


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Inside Stasi 9/29

File card archive, BStU Berlin Normannenstrasse

OSTKREUZ photographer Thomas Meyer went to search for the traces of the Secret Police of the GDR. He found places where the executors of the socialistic law – the Staatssicherheit – operated. The different sections of the "Stasi" were spread throughout the GDR. The prison in Berlin Hohenschoenhausen is preserved as a museum and the former “ministry for the safety of the state” is still an authority with millions of files to manage and research.
Thomas Meyer found filing cabinets, magnetic tapes, smell examples and devotional objects as well as the current administrative machinery and the working employees.
Observing tools and prison cells represent the inhuman methods of the Secret Police of the GDR still today and get oppressively vivid with the reserved view of Thomas Meyer.


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Inside Stasi 10/29

File card archive, BStU Berlin Normannenstrasse

OSTKREUZ photographer Thomas Meyer went to search for the traces of the Secret Police of the GDR. He found places where the executors of the socialistic law – the Staatssicherheit – operated. The different sections of the "Stasi" were spread throughout the GDR. The prison in Berlin Hohenschoenhausen is preserved as a museum and the former “ministry for the safety of the state” is still an authority with millions of files to manage and research.
Thomas Meyer found filing cabinets, magnetic tapes, smell examples and devotional objects as well as the current administrative machinery and the working employees.
Observing tools and prison cells represent the inhuman methods of the Secret Police of the GDR still today and get oppressively vivid with the reserved view of Thomas Meyer.


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Inside Stasi 11/29

Audio tape, BStU Berlin Normannenstrasse

OSTKREUZ photographer Thomas Meyer went to search for the traces of the Secret Police of the GDR. He found places where the executors of the socialistic law – the Staatssicherheit – operated. The different sections of the "Stasi" were spread throughout the GDR. The prison in Berlin Hohenschoenhausen is preserved as a museum and the former “ministry for the safety of the state” is still an authority with millions of files to manage and research.
Thomas Meyer found filing cabinets, magnetic tapes, smell examples and devotional objects as well as the current administrative machinery and the working employees.
Observing tools and prison cells represent the inhuman methods of the Secret Police of the GDR still today and get oppressively vivid with the reserved view of Thomas Meyer.


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Inside Stasi 12/29

Microfilm archive, BStU Berlin Normannenstrasse

OSTKREUZ photographer Thomas Meyer went to search for the traces of the Secret Police of the GDR. He found places where the executors of the socialistic law – the Staatssicherheit – operated. The different sections of the "Stasi" were spread throughout the GDR. The prison in Berlin Hohenschoenhausen is preserved as a museum and the former “ministry for the safety of the state” is still an authority with millions of files to manage and research.
Thomas Meyer found filing cabinets, magnetic tapes, smell examples and devotional objects as well as the current administrative machinery and the working employees.
Observing tools and prison cells represent the inhuman methods of the Secret Police of the GDR still today and get oppressively vivid with the reserved view of Thomas Meyer.


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Inside Stasi 13/29

Hans Bauer, former GDR procecuting attorney

OSTKREUZ photographer Thomas Meyer went to search for the traces of the Secret Police of the GDR. He found places where the executors of the socialistic law – the Staatssicherheit – operated. The different sections of the "Stasi" were spread throughout the GDR. The prison in Berlin Hohenschoenhausen is preserved as a museum and the former “ministry for the safety of the state” is still an authority with millions of files to manage and research.
Thomas Meyer found filing cabinets, magnetic tapes, smell examples and devotional objects as well as the current administrative machinery and the working employees.
Observing tools and prison cells represent the inhuman methods of the Secret Police of the GDR still today and get oppressively vivid with the reserved view of Thomas Meyer.


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Inside Stasi 14/29

Stasi files archive, BStU Berlin Normannenstrasse

OSTKREUZ photographer Thomas Meyer went to search for the traces of the Secret Police of the GDR. He found places where the executors of the socialistic law – the Staatssicherheit – operated. The different sections of the "Stasi" were spread throughout the GDR. The prison in Berlin Hohenschoenhausen is preserved as a museum and the former “ministry for the safety of the state” is still an authority with millions of files to manage and research.
Thomas Meyer found filing cabinets, magnetic tapes, smell examples and devotional objects as well as the current administrative machinery and the working employees.
Observing tools and prison cells represent the inhuman methods of the Secret Police of the GDR still today and get oppressively vivid with the reserved view of Thomas Meyer.


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Inside Stasi 15/29

Office with portrait of Erich Mielke, BStU Berlin Normannenstrasse

OSTKREUZ photographer Thomas Meyer went to search for the traces of the Secret Police of the GDR. He found places where the executors of the socialistic law – the Staatssicherheit – operated. The different sections of the "Stasi" were spread throughout the GDR. The prison in Berlin Hohenschoenhausen is preserved as a museum and the former “ministry for the safety of the state” is still an authority with millions of files to manage and research.
Thomas Meyer found filing cabinets, magnetic tapes, smell examples and devotional objects as well as the current administrative machinery and the working employees.
Observing tools and prison cells represent the inhuman methods of the Secret Police of the GDR still today and get oppressively vivid with the reserved view of Thomas Meyer.


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Inside Stasi 16/29

Erich Mielke´s office, minister of state security

OSTKREUZ photographer Thomas Meyer went to search for the traces of the Secret Police of the GDR. He found places where the executors of the socialistic law – the Staatssicherheit – operated. The different sections of the "Stasi" were spread throughout the GDR. The prison in Berlin Hohenschoenhausen is preserved as a museum and the former “ministry for the safety of the state” is still an authority with millions of files to manage and research.
Thomas Meyer found filing cabinets, magnetic tapes, smell examples and devotional objects as well as the current administrative machinery and the working employees.
Observing tools and prison cells represent the inhuman methods of the Secret Police of the GDR still today and get oppressively vivid with the reserved view of Thomas Meyer.


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Inside Stasi 17/29

Uniform, Stasi Museum Normannenstrasse

OSTKREUZ photographer Thomas Meyer went to search for the traces of the Secret Police of the GDR. He found places where the executors of the socialistic law – the Staatssicherheit – operated. The different sections of the "Stasi" were spread throughout the GDR. The prison in Berlin Hohenschoenhausen is preserved as a museum and the former “ministry for the safety of the state” is still an authority with millions of files to manage and research.
Thomas Meyer found filing cabinets, magnetic tapes, smell examples and devotional objects as well as the current administrative machinery and the working employees.
Observing tools and prison cells represent the inhuman methods of the Secret Police of the GDR still today and get oppressively vivid with the reserved view of Thomas Meyer.


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Inside Stasi 18/29

Devotional objects and presents, Stasi Museum Normannenstrasse

OSTKREUZ photographer Thomas Meyer went to search for the traces of the Secret Police of the GDR. He found places where the executors of the socialistic law – the Staatssicherheit – operated. The different sections of the "Stasi" were spread throughout the GDR. The prison in Berlin Hohenschoenhausen is preserved as a museum and the former “ministry for the safety of the state” is still an authority with millions of files to manage and research.
Thomas Meyer found filing cabinets, magnetic tapes, smell examples and devotional objects as well as the current administrative machinery and the working employees.
Observing tools and prison cells represent the inhuman methods of the Secret Police of the GDR still today and get oppressively vivid with the reserved view of Thomas Meyer.


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Inside Stasi 19/29

Spy technic and a uniform, Museum Runde Ecke Leipzig

OSTKREUZ photographer Thomas Meyer went to search for the traces of the Secret Police of the GDR. He found places where the executors of the socialistic law – the Staatssicherheit – operated. The different sections of the "Stasi" were spread throughout the GDR. The prison in Berlin Hohenschoenhausen is preserved as a museum and the former “ministry for the safety of the state” is still an authority with millions of files to manage and research.
Thomas Meyer found filing cabinets, magnetic tapes, smell examples and devotional objects as well as the current administrative machinery and the working employees.
Observing tools and prison cells represent the inhuman methods of the Secret Police of the GDR still today and get oppressively vivid with the reserved view of Thomas Meyer.


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Inside Stasi 20/29

Interception system, Museum Runde Ecke Leipzig

OSTKREUZ photographer Thomas Meyer went to search for the traces of the Secret Police of the GDR. He found places where the executors of the socialistic law – the Staatssicherheit – operated. The different sections of the "Stasi" were spread throughout the GDR. The prison in Berlin Hohenschoenhausen is preserved as a museum and the former “ministry for the safety of the state” is still an authority with millions of files to manage and research.
Thomas Meyer found filing cabinets, magnetic tapes, smell examples and devotional objects as well as the current administrative machinery and the working employees.
Observing tools and prison cells represent the inhuman methods of the Secret Police of the GDR still today and get oppressively vivid with the reserved view of Thomas Meyer.


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Inside Stasi 21/29

Stasi office, Museum Runde Ecke Leipzig

OSTKREUZ photographer Thomas Meyer went to search for the traces of the Secret Police of the GDR. He found places where the executors of the socialistic law – the Staatssicherheit – operated. The different sections of the "Stasi" were spread throughout the GDR. The prison in Berlin Hohenschoenhausen is preserved as a museum and the former “ministry for the safety of the state” is still an authority with millions of files to manage and research.
Thomas Meyer found filing cabinets, magnetic tapes, smell examples and devotional objects as well as the current administrative machinery and the working employees.
Observing tools and prison cells represent the inhuman methods of the Secret Police of the GDR still today and get oppressively vivid with the reserved view of Thomas Meyer.


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Inside Stasi 22/29

Dieter Stiebert, former Stasi officer

OSTKREUZ photographer Thomas Meyer went to search for the traces of the Secret Police of the GDR. He found places where the executors of the socialistic law – the Staatssicherheit – operated. The different sections of the "Stasi" were spread throughout the GDR. The prison in Berlin Hohenschoenhausen is preserved as a museum and the former “ministry for the safety of the state” is still an authority with millions of files to manage and research.
Thomas Meyer found filing cabinets, magnetic tapes, smell examples and devotional objects as well as the current administrative machinery and the working employees.
Observing tools and prison cells represent the inhuman methods of the Secret Police of the GDR still today and get oppressively vivid with the reserved view of Thomas Meyer.


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Inside Stasi 23/29

Cortyard, Stasi prison Potsdam

OSTKREUZ photographer Thomas Meyer went to search for the traces of the Secret Police of the GDR. He found places where the executors of the socialistic law – the Staatssicherheit – operated. The different sections of the "Stasi" were spread throughout the GDR. The prison in Berlin Hohenschoenhausen is preserved as a museum and the former “ministry for the safety of the state” is still an authority with millions of files to manage and research.
Thomas Meyer found filing cabinets, magnetic tapes, smell examples and devotional objects as well as the current administrative machinery and the working employees.
Observing tools and prison cells represent the inhuman methods of the Secret Police of the GDR still today and get oppressively vivid with the reserved view of Thomas Meyer.


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Inside Stasi 24/29

Photographic room, Stasi prison Potsdam

OSTKREUZ photographer Thomas Meyer went to search for the traces of the Secret Police of the GDR. He found places where the executors of the socialistic law – the Staatssicherheit – operated. The different sections of the "Stasi" were spread throughout the GDR. The prison in Berlin Hohenschoenhausen is preserved as a museum and the former “ministry for the safety of the state” is still an authority with millions of files to manage and research.
Thomas Meyer found filing cabinets, magnetic tapes, smell examples and devotional objects as well as the current administrative machinery and the working employees.
Observing tools and prison cells represent the inhuman methods of the Secret Police of the GDR still today and get oppressively vivid with the reserved view of Thomas Meyer.


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Inside Stasi 25/29

Cell, Stasi prison Potsdam

OSTKREUZ photographer Thomas Meyer went to search for the traces of the Secret Police of the GDR. He found places where the executors of the socialistic law – the Staatssicherheit – operated. The different sections of the "Stasi" were spread throughout the GDR. The prison in Berlin Hohenschoenhausen is preserved as a museum and the former “ministry for the safety of the state” is still an authority with millions of files to manage and research.
Thomas Meyer found filing cabinets, magnetic tapes, smell examples and devotional objects as well as the current administrative machinery and the working employees.
Observing tools and prison cells represent the inhuman methods of the Secret Police of the GDR still today and get oppressively vivid with the reserved view of Thomas Meyer.


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Inside Stasi 26/29

Museum inside the Stasi-Bunker, Machern near Leipzig

OSTKREUZ photographer Thomas Meyer went to search for the traces of the Secret Police of the GDR. He found places where the executors of the socialistic law – the Staatssicherheit – operated. The different sections of the "Stasi" were spread throughout the GDR. The prison in Berlin Hohenschoenhausen is preserved as a museum and the former “ministry for the safety of the state” is still an authority with millions of files to manage and research.
Thomas Meyer found filing cabinets, magnetic tapes, smell examples and devotional objects as well as the current administrative machinery and the working employees.
Observing tools and prison cells represent the inhuman methods of the Secret Police of the GDR still today and get oppressively vivid with the reserved view of Thomas Meyer.


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Inside Stasi 27/29

Bedroom and office at the Museum inside the Stasi-Bunker, Machern near Leipzig

OSTKREUZ photographer Thomas Meyer went to search for the traces of the Secret Police of the GDR. He found places where the executors of the socialistic law – the Staatssicherheit – operated. The different sections of the "Stasi" were spread throughout the GDR. The prison in Berlin Hohenschoenhausen is preserved as a museum and the former “ministry for the safety of the state” is still an authority with millions of files to manage and research.
Thomas Meyer found filing cabinets, magnetic tapes, smell examples and devotional objects as well as the current administrative machinery and the working employees.
Observing tools and prison cells represent the inhuman methods of the Secret Police of the GDR still today and get oppressively vivid with the reserved view of Thomas Meyer.


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Inside Stasi 28/29

Communication technic, Museum inside the Stasi-Bunker, Machern near Leipzig

OSTKREUZ photographer Thomas Meyer went to search for the traces of the Secret Police of the GDR. He found places where the executors of the socialistic law – the Staatssicherheit – operated. The different sections of the "Stasi" were spread throughout the GDR. The prison in Berlin Hohenschoenhausen is preserved as a museum and the former “ministry for the safety of the state” is still an authority with millions of files to manage and research.
Thomas Meyer found filing cabinets, magnetic tapes, smell examples and devotional objects as well as the current administrative machinery and the working employees.
Observing tools and prison cells represent the inhuman methods of the Secret Police of the GDR still today and get oppressively vivid with the reserved view of Thomas Meyer.


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Inside Stasi 29/29

Desktop at the Museum inside the Stasi-Bunker, Machern near Leipzig

OSTKREUZ photographer Thomas Meyer went to search for the traces of the Secret Police of the GDR. He found places where the executors of the socialistic law – the Staatssicherheit – operated. The different sections of the "Stasi" were spread throughout the GDR. The prison in Berlin Hohenschoenhausen is preserved as a museum and the former “ministry for the safety of the state” is still an authority with millions of files to manage and research.
Thomas Meyer found filing cabinets, magnetic tapes, smell examples and devotional objects as well as the current administrative machinery and the working employees.
Observing tools and prison cells represent the inhuman methods of the Secret Police of the GDR still today and get oppressively vivid with the reserved view of Thomas Meyer.


← back to overview