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Campus for Democracy</span></li></ol></nav> <a id="main-content" tabindex="-1"></a>  <div class="pageHeader-sub"> <div class="inner"> <figure> <picture><source srcset="/assets/bundesarchiv/en/_processed_/9/e/csm_headquarters_berlin_campus-04_2e68abeabc.jpg" media="(max-width: 600px)" type="image/jpg"><source srcset="/assets/bundesarchiv/en/_processed_/9/e/csm_headquarters_berlin_campus-04_27602fe19e.jpg" media="(max-width: 900px)" type="image/jpg"> <img src="/assets/bundesarchiv/en/_processed_/9/e/csm_headquarters_berlin_campus-04_c8ac1850bc.jpg" title="View onto "Stasi Headquarters. Campus for Democracy"" alt="View onto "Stasi Headquarters. Campus for Democracy"" height="500" width="1440"></picture> <figcaption class="toggle"> <button> <i class="icon" aria-hidden="true"></i> <span class="is-invisible"> Show image description </span> </button> <p> View onto "Stasi Headquarters. Campus for Democracy", Source: Dronebrothers.de </p> </figcaption> </figure> <header> <h1 class="exclude-from-search"> <abbr title="State Security Service" lang="en" class="dreipc-abbreviation">Stasi</abbr> Headquarters. Campus for Democracy </h1> <p>Site of Repression, Site of the Revolution, Site of Reflection</p> </header> </div> </div>   <div class="article-content is-narrow"> <p>What began as a place of repression is now a campus for democracy: The former headquarters of the Ministry for State Security once housed thousands of employees of the secret police tasked with helping to secure the power of the <abbr title="Socialist Unity Party of Germany" lang="en" class="dreipc-abbreviation">SED</abbr>-dictatorship. Today it is a place where these injustices of the past are addressed and connected to discussions about contemporary conflicts and values of society.</p> </div> <div class="article-content is-narrow"> <h2 id="c48480" tabindex="0"> History of the complex </h2> <p>The headquarters of the Ministry for State Security (<abbr title="Ministry for State Security" lang="en" class="dreipc-abbreviation">MfS</abbr>) in Berlin-Lichtenberg was a huge complex with almost 50 buildings and thousands of offices. This is where, for almost four decades, as many as 7.000 official employees organized the surveillance and persecution of the population of the German Democratic Republic.</p> <p>In January 1990, demonstrators forced their way onto the sealed-off grounds and helped to end the activities of the <abbr title="State Security Service" lang="en" class="dreipc-abbreviation">Stasi</abbr>. Today this former bastion of <abbr title="Socialist Unity Party of Germany" lang="en" class="dreipc-abbreviation">SED</abbr> (East German Communist Party) rule is an educational site about dictatorship and resistance and a learning centre for democracy.</p> <p>As a place of reflection on the East German dictatorship, the Campus for Democracy is home to the Robert Havemann Society with its archive of the <abbr title="German Democratic Repubic" lang="en" class="dreipc-abbreviation">GDR</abbr> opposition movement and the ASTAK Association running the Stasimuseum. The <abbr title="State Security Service" lang="en" class="dreipc-abbreviation">Stasi</abbr> Records Archive has its central archive location here. Individual and group visitors can tour the grounds, the archives and the exhibitions as well as attend events.</p> </div> <div class="article-content"> <h2 id="c48478" tabindex="0"> Things to see </h2> <figure> <picture><source srcset="/assets/bundesarchiv/en/_processed_/2/2/csm_headquarter_plan_houses_7fa14f2e8a.jpg" media="(max-width: 600px)" type="image/jpg"><source srcset="/assets/bundesarchiv/en/_processed_/2/2/csm_headquarter_plan_houses_e305129ec4.jpg" media="(max-width: 900px)" type="image/jpg"> <img src="/assets/bundesarchiv/en/_processed_/2/2/csm_headquarter_plan_houses_82baf2549d.jpg" title="" alt="Site plan for the "Stasi headquarters. Campus for Democracy"." height="938" width="1200"></picture> <figcaption> <small><span>Site plan for the "<abbr title="State Security Service" lang="en" class="dreipc-abbreviation">Stasi</abbr> headquarters. Campus for Democracy".</span><span>Source: Pralle Sonne</span></small> </figcaption> </figure> </div> <div class="article-content"> <div class="columns sticky-columns"> <div class="column"> <figure> <picture><source srcset="/assets/bundesarchiv/en/_processed_/c/7/csm_access-to-secrecy_4d31528d16.jpg" media="(max-width: 600px)" type="image/jpg"><source srcset="/assets/bundesarchiv/en/_processed_/c/7/csm_access-to-secrecy_38d67e3b83.jpg" media="(max-width: 900px)" type="image/jpg"> <img src="/assets/bundesarchiv/en/_processed_/c/7/csm_access-to-secrecy_edf9edeef5.jpg" title="" alt="Walk-in files, interactive media stations and original objects provide insight into the archive of the GDR secret police" height="436" width="580"></picture> <figcaption> <small><span>Walk-in files, interactive media stations and original objects provide insight into the archive of the <abbr title="German Democratic Repubic" lang="en" class="dreipc-abbreviation">GDR</abbr> secret police</span><span>Source: <abbr title="Federal Commissioner for the Records of the State Security Service of the former German Democratic Republic" lang="en" class="dreipc-abbreviation">BStU</abbr>/Dresen</span></small> </figcaption> </figure> </div> <div class="column"> <h3>Exhibition "Access to Secrecy"</h3> <p>How did the <abbr title="State Security Service" lang="en" class="dreipc-abbreviation">Stasi</abbr> store, analyse and use the information it gathered about individuals? "Access to Secrecy" is the first exhibition to present the foundations and content of the <abbr title="German Democratic Repubic" lang="en" class="dreipc-abbreviation">GDR</abbr> secret police archive. Using “walk-in” files, interactive media stations and original objects, it makes it possible to experience the <abbr title="State Security Service" lang="en" class="dreipc-abbreviation">Stasi</abbr> Records Archive at the historic site. Tours of the exhibition, including a glimpse into the archive, and special project days for school groups are offered regularly.</p> <p>Read more about the exhibition on <a href="http://www.access-to-secrecy.com" title="Access to Secrecy" target="_blank" class="arrow-up-right" rel="noreferrer">www.access-to-secrecy.com</a></p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="article-content"> <div class="columns sticky-columns"> <div class="column"> <h3>Exhibition "State Security in the <abbr title="Socialist Unity Party of Germany" lang="en" class="dreipc-abbreviation">SED</abbr> Dictatorship"</h3> <p>The exhibition “State Security in the <abbr title="Socialist Unity Party of Germany" lang="en" class="dreipc-abbreviation">SED</abbr> Dictatorship” is located in “House 1” – with the former offices of the Minister for State Security a central site of the apparatus of repression. It explains the structure, development and work methods of the <abbr title="State Security Service" lang="en" class="dreipc-abbreviation">Stasi</abbr>. Who were the perpetrators? What was their mission? And how did they go about monitoring and persecuting the <abbr title="German Democratic Repubic" lang="en" class="dreipc-abbreviation">GDR</abbr> population? In addition to the offices of <abbr title="State Security Service" lang="en" class="dreipc-abbreviation">Stasi</abbr> Minister Erich Mielke, which are preserved in their original form, there are many different objects on display, including special cameras, wiretaps, forced entry tools and equipment used to secretly open letters.</p> </div> <div class="column"> <figure> <picture><source srcset="/assets/bundesarchiv/en/_processed_/f/a/csm_stasimuseum_mielke-office_5b524f54e6.jpg" media="(max-width: 600px)" type="image/jpg"><source srcset="/assets/bundesarchiv/en/_processed_/f/a/csm_stasimuseum_mielke-office_4d7f2294be.jpg" media="(max-width: 900px)" type="image/jpg"> <img src="/assets/bundesarchiv/en/_processed_/f/a/csm_stasimuseum_mielke-office_8df1ce8cdc.jpg" title="" alt="Visitors to the Stasi Museum can explore the former offices of Stasi Minister Erich Mielke, preserved in their original form." height="436" width="580"></picture> <figcaption> <small><span>Visitors to the <abbr title="State Security Service" lang="en" class="dreipc-abbreviation">Stasi</abbr> Museum can explore the former offices of <abbr title="State Security Service" lang="en" class="dreipc-abbreviation">Stasi</abbr> Minister Erich Mielke, preserved in their original form.</span><span>Source: ASTAK/Steer</span></small> </figcaption> </figure> </div> </div> </div> <div class="article-content"> <div class="columns sticky-columns"> <div class="column"> <figure> <picture><source srcset="/assets/bundesarchiv/en/_processed_/2/3/csm_rhg_open-air_fbd8b0133e.jpg" media="(max-width: 600px)" type="image/jpg"><source srcset="/assets/bundesarchiv/en/_processed_/2/3/csm_rhg_open-air_bcfdf1c0e3.jpg" media="(max-width: 900px)" type="image/jpg"> <img src="/assets/bundesarchiv/en/_processed_/2/3/csm_rhg_open-air_d7e6cf6f67.jpg" title="" alt="“Revolution and the Fall of the Wall”: The revolution for freedom in the GDR is documented by more than 650 photographs and many historical documents and film recordings" height="436" width="580"></picture> <figcaption> <small><span>“Revolution and the Fall of the Wall”: The revolution for freedom in the <abbr title="German Democratic Repubic" lang="en" class="dreipc-abbreviation">GDR</abbr> is documented by more than 650 photographs and many historical documents and film recordings</span><span>Source: Robert-Havemann-Gesellschaft/Oana Popa</span></small> </figcaption> </figure> </div> <div class="column"> <h3>Open-Air-Exhibition "Revolution and the Fall of the Wall"</h3> <p>The permanent exhibition in the inner courtyard of the <abbr title="State Security Service" lang="en" class="dreipc-abbreviation">Stasi</abbr> headquarters, one of the historic sites of the Peaceful Revolution, documents the most important stages in this event – from the initial protests to the fall of the Berlin Wall and the reunification of Germany. The presentation focuses on the people behind the revolution who brought down the communist dictatorship. 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