Access to the files would be kept open, said Roland Jahn, Special Commissioner for the Stasi Records. The waste was to be pulped or burnt but "citizen committees" stormed Stasi offices across East Germany, seizing millions of files along with 15,500 bags of torn-up documents. READ ALSO: Stasi documents trove released onlineThe Aufarbeitungsverein Bürgerkomitee 15. Asked if the restructuring was the wrong move on a key anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, Jahn told broadcaster Deutschlandfunk: "Quite the opposite." We don't want an agency for absolute truth... rather we want a Stasi archive that makes documents readily available, so that a discussion can take place in society," he said.

Source: The Local September 26, 2019 12:33 UTC