Shredded Secret Police Files Being Reassembled

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday May 9, 2007 @01:30PM from the burn-the-papers-from-now-on dept.

An anonymous reader writes "German researchers at the Frauenhofer Institute said Wednesday that they were launching an attempt to reassemble millions of shredded East German secret police files using complicated computerized algorithms. The files were shredded as the Berlin Wall fell in 1989 and it became clear that the East German regime was finished. Panicking officials of the Stasi secret police attempted to destroy the vast volumes of material they had kept on everyone from their own citizens to foreign leaders."

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Re:Iranian Revolution by delirium+of+disorder · 2007-05-09 14:03 · Score: 4, Informative

The Iranian revolutionaries did the same thing to CIA documents in the embassy. The re-assembled documents are available at www.memoryhole.org

I think you mean http://www.thememoryhole.org/

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