Stasi chief's office reopened in new exhibition

   The Stazi was created in order to spy on the East German people from 1957 until 1989. This Museum is an interesting one because it gives a glimpse into what the cold war was like from the Allied controlled West Germany. the interior of the office shows that even though the rest of the world saw the area as black and white and that the people inside Germany also saw it as black and white, that there was color in the strangest places. The German government has invest about 14 Billon dollars or about 11 euros into renovating the office and making it into a museum.
    The thing that surprised me the most was the color scheme on the inside of the office. The carpet was bright red and the furniture was a real bright blue. Besides pictures being black and white i just always have imagined the Cold War era in Germany as a dark and dismal place and then in the heart of one of the biggest spy offices, there was this array of colors. The fact that it was revealed that the office was spying on the East Germany people that was communist run and that seems to go with everything i have heard and studied about there being espionage.
    The cultural aspect about this is that the German People who saved the furniture and thousands of papers in the 80s wanted to immortalize what they had went through for the future generations to see. The German people have had a lot happen to them since the beginning of the 20th century and they know that they can not run and hide from the past and they also know that learning about the past is the only way to not repeat the past. This museum is a great piece of history for them.
This Article byMarcel Fürstenau can be read at http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,15667988,00.html