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Interview - Stasi: Transparency never expires

November 11, 2016

East Germany’s secret police, the Stasi, has become Roland Jahn’s lifework. As an activist the Stasi spied on him. Today he manages public access to the files they kept on millions of their own people.

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BStU Roland Jahn spricht bei seinem Besuch der Dokumentations- und Gedenstätte in der ehemaligen Untersuchungshaftanstalt der Stasi zu Besuchern
Image: picture-alliance/dpa

East Germany’s secret police, the Stasi, has become Roland Jahn’s lifework. As an activist the Stasi spied on him. Today he manages public access to the files they kept on millions of their own people. He’s convinced that exposing a dictatorship is the best way of improving democracy.