The building in Dittrichring, which is popularly called the "Round Corner", used to house the Leipzig STASI (secret police) headquarters until 1989. It was one of the focal points during the Monday Demonstrations which lead the way to the peaceful revolution German reunification.
Today it is the home of the Museum in the "Round Corner" documenting the "power and banality" of the GDR secret police.
Free, unlike the Museum of COmmunism in Prague. More straightforward and dignified, less informative, and less entertaining . . . no English, only Deustche. The Banality is all of the sample documents they show of spying, professional, confessional, and amateur, on their own people. Instructive, I believe for all Nationalities, but now, especially to Americans. I am of two minds, that 1) we are already there, but 2) we are not quite there yet, to the same degree ... if you see what I mean . . . but these would be clews:
Today it is the home of the Museum in the "Round Corner" documenting the "power and banality" of the GDR secret police.
Free, unlike the Museum of COmmunism in Prague. More straightforward and dignified, less informative, and less entertaining . . . no English, only Deustche. The Banality is all of the sample documents they show of spying, professional, confessional, and amateur, on their own people. Instructive, I believe for all Nationalities, but now, especially to Americans. I am of two minds, that 1) we are already there, but 2) we are not quite there yet, to the same degree ... if you see what I mean . . . but these would be clews:
- if your bedroom looks like this . . . you may be living in a Fascist State
- if your bedroom door looks like this . . . you may be living in a Fascist State
- if your day is full of difficult converstations under duress . . . you may be living in a Fascist State
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