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: Že dve leti po njeni ukinitvi so dokumenti postali javno dostopni in zgodovinarji smo jih začeli preučevati, da bi izvedeli, kako je deloval nadzor v NDR.