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May 31, 2010

History World

Piecing Together the Stasi’s Dark Legacy

In the chaotic days before the Berlin Wall fell, the East German secret police shredded 45 million pages. Fifteen years later, a team of computer scientists figured out how to put it all back together.

Andrew Curry Wired Jan 2008 15min Permalink