english: Only two years after its dissolution, its documents were opened to the public, and historians such as me started to study these documents to learn more about how the GDR surveillance state functioned.
non_english: Nauwelijks twee jaar na haar ontbinding werden haar documenten openbaar gemaakt en begonnen historici zoals ik deze documenten te bestuderen om te leren hoe de DDR-politiestaat werkte.