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- SummaryPress conference with Peter-Michael Diestel and Günter Eichhorn on the dissolution of the Ministry for State Security (MfS), photos of the picket in front of the Stasi headquarters in Normannenstraße, statement by Wolf Biermann on the Stasi files and press conference of the squatters in front of the MfS.
- ShotlistC1/1370: GDR Interior Minister Peter-Michael Diestel et al. enter the hall; Diestel takes a seat on the podium, photographers in the VG; various pictures of the participants of the conference on the podium (among others Günter Eichhorn); Diestel OT: "...would like to use this press conference to give you as much information as possible about the things that have been contradictorily presented in the last days and weeks/ on 16 May 1990 the Council of Ministers decided on further tasks and measures resulting from the dissolution of the former Ministry of State Security/ this Council of Ministers decision is from all parties that were still present in the governing coalition at that time..../ the committee for the dissolution of the former MfS, formed by decision of the Modrow government of 08.02.1990, was subordinated to the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of the Interior / the leader of this committee - Mr. Eichhorn - was appointed by me / decision of 16. May, however, also determines the responsibility of other ministers to cope with the entire problem/ Preliminary remark seems important to me, because especially since my assumption of office, flanked by opinions expressed by some politicians of a certain colour, the media often speculately give the impression that the Stasi problem is a personal hobby of Diestel/ would like to point out that corresponding checks have shown that/ my first personal contacts with the state security result from the time after the 12th century / my first personal contacts with the state security are after the 12th century / my first remarks are not a problem for me.04.1990, thus in connection with the assumption of this office, the problem of state security has also become a problem of mine personally/ of mine personally exclusively with regard to these tasks, which I present here/ would like, what concerns this kind of journalism and political spectacle no media scolding generally distribute/ is however already strange, how tendentiously unseriös and superficially in some media straight, which concerns the still highly sensitive problem disclosure and Sensationsjournalismus is operated/ I have understood my office to mean that this problem must be dealt with historically, legally possibly also literarily and not be the subject of the election campaign and not the subject of the final division of our people"; Thistel gives an example; Diestel OT: "...I am accustomed to attacks on my person in relation to the Stasi problem in the meantime and will not be prevented, on the basis of the decision of the Council of Ministers of 16 May 1990, from solving the task assigned to me according to Christian-democratic understanding and constitutional principles..."; Diestel OT on the current state of affairs: "My allies, in addition to my ministerial colleagues, are the parliamentary special committee for monitoring the dissolution of the former MfS/ AfNS, the state committee for the dissolution of the MfS/ AfNS and the government commission which advises me, as well as all citizens who want to bring a democratic, constitutional and morally clean GDR into a new Germany and of course the victims of the state security for whose rehabilitation I am fully committed/ State security was the best organized secret service system in the world/ we succeeded in peacefully smashing this inhuman system of repression and surveillance/ no one died in my term of office in connection with it/ the people and politicians of the de Maizière government succeeded in preventing Romanian conditions/ What is particularly important to me is not to push these 86,000 people, who were employed full-time in the Ministry of State Security, generally into the sidelines and thus create an uncontrollable coup potential/ despite all contradictions, emotions and difficulties, we responsible politicians, the population to a large extent contributed to eliminate or decimate this danger/ The former MfS-employees have to cope with the moral side of their past on their own/ they have to help each other to settle their own accounts by relentlessly coming to terms with the past/ as far as the criminal processing of the crimes of the Stasi is concerned, those who charged themselves with guilt according to the principles of the rule of law will do so according to law and order, have to answer for themselves/ state committee for the dissolution of the MfS/AfNS has done extensive work/ Mr. Eichhorn will report in detail/ basic documentation on structure and functioning of the former Ministry for State Security is available/ according to the decision of the Council of Ministers of the 16th and 18th of July mentioned by me05.1990 and the recommendations of the government commission, the special committee has created an overview of the officers in the special mission (OibE) under strict observance of the personal data protection/ delegates of this committee have decided to hold the direct, personal conversation with this circle of persons. would like to point out once again that it was not me who made this decision/ even myself, as Minister of the Interior of the GDR, do not know any names about OibE/ do not have any material/ have interviewed the chairman of the committee and the members of the committee several times via my State Secretaries/ cannot fall back on the results of this committee's work .../ please bear in mind that it is necessary for a Minister of the Interior to need the information for the area under his control in order to make personnel decisions / to be able to make decisions to remove Oibes, employees who have a state security burden / have done what I can / have carried out a large number of surveys / have made personnel decisions on a large scale to the extent that I have received honest, open information / have made personnel decisions on a large scale / have made personnel decisions on a large scale / have made personnel decisions on a large scale to the extent that I have received honest, open information / have made personnel decisions on a large scale to the extent that I have been able to make personnel decisions / have made personnel decisions on a large scale to the extent that I have been able to make personnel decisions / have made personnel decisions on a large scale to the extent that I have been able to make personnel decisions / have made personnel decisions on a large scale to the extent that I have been able to make decisions / have removed from the Oibes, employees who have a state security burden / have done my part in this / have carried out large. in order to ensure general cooperation with the Special Committee of the People's Chamber, an agreement has been concluded in the interest of expedient, unbureaucratic and at the same time legally sound effectiveness/ corresponds to the principles of the rule of law, the responsibility of the legislative and executive branches arising from the separation of powers and their strict separation/ representative for cooperation with the People's Chamber Committee is the jurist Prof. Dr. Schüßler/ on the transfer of MfS properties to the municipalities, I would like to point out that the state committee continues to work on this issue/ clear clarification of the former ownership situation of such properties and any claims of third parties based on it is difficult/ in addition, the unification agreement makes it difficult for old buildings, facilities and inventory of the former MfS to be transferred to the assets of the Treuhandanstalt.../ I can therefore, as I am often accused of, not make arbitrary decisions/ the concept was developed for the further political-historical reappraisal of the MfS..."; Diestel OT on the political-historical processing of the MfS: "..further documents, secret or confidential classified information such as guidelines, orders, etc.". the structures and methods of the Stasi are to become clear to all people in our country and in a united Germany/ the history of the Ministry of State Security is to be worked out step by step/ a task in which historians, people influenced by citizens' committees, but also employees of the MfS are to work together/ is not only about the dissolution of an administrative apparatus, about the smashing of structures, but above all about the disclosure of a complicated, national and social network, so that such a juggernaut can never arise again"; Diestel OT on the advisory activity of the government commission: "The government commission constituted on 30 May has so far held eleven meetings on fundamental questions of the further dissolution of the former Ministry for State Security (MfS) and has submitted corresponding proposals for solutions/ From the beginning of its activity the commission has endeavoured to cooperate closely with the Special Committee of the People's Chamber./ chaired by Mr. Gauck / for this purpose, Dr. Hummer and Mr. Gill, as predestined representatives of the Citizens' Committees, held joint consultations with the Members of Parliament and participated in each other's meetings / Commission focused its activities on the following problem areas: Conception for the handling of personal documents of the former MfS/ historical processing of these documents/ transfer of objects of the former MfS/ design of the research and memorial site for the victims of Stalinism..."; Sectional views: Excerpt from running tape recorder GA; various recordings of the journalists; cameraman on the side; writing journalist OH (from front); Photographer looks through camera with very large lens (from front); various shots of the journalists (from the front, from the side); Thistel OH; Diestel OT: "....Act on the protection and use of personal data of the former MfS was submitted by the Prime Minister for decision/ unfortunately the arguments of the Government Commission were not sufficiently appreciated by the Special Committee/ Special Committee on its part worked out its own law taking into account the mentioned draft law/ we currently had a law on the protection and use of personal data of the former MfSB. at that time proposed to store the personal data documents centrally in a special depot/ special committee proposed to store and archive them in the transmitter archives of the five countries to be formed as well as in the central special archive of the former MfS/ as is well known, the corresponding law was passed on 24 August.In 1990, it was passed by the People's Chamber and was to be enshrined as a continuing right in the Unification Treaty/ was rejected in the negotiations on the Treaty between State Secretary Dr. Krause and Federal Minister of the Interior Dr. Schäuble did not consider/ I have clearly articulated my point of view on the personal data in public/ stand by it/ in the meantime they have been informed about the status of the correction and the renegotiation/ assume that a broad consensus has also been reached on the procedural issues of the parties involved/ make every effort to ensure that appropriate safeguards are in place to prevent the removal of documents from existing archives/ is a scandal, if Mr. Brinksmeier - as chairman of the interior committee of the Volkskammer - accused me of impeding the processing of the Stasi problem with my proposals and determinations.../ his colleagues Schwalm and Ebert were obviously Stasi employees and would have the same opportunity to support this important, constructive processing / but believe that by not commenting on the accusations for a week, there is no doubt that the processing situation is at risk... It is very complicated for a Minister of the Interior, if he has information about suspicions, I cannot comment on the article of the magazine "Der Welt", because I simply do not know the past of Mr. Schwalm and Mr. Ebert in such detail, but would have expected that two employees in such a sensitive area, if they are already exposed to accusations, deny these accusations at very short notice and defend themselves/ this dubious situation generally raises doubts in the public as to whether this problem is being dealt with properly by those responsible/ I would like to thank all those responsible who have so far given me support in the dissolution of the MfS..../ would like to make the problem clear once again after the press conference with some examples.../ we as the government have set ourselves the task of overgrowing the united Germany in a peaceful and well-organized manner/ in this context, the constitutional overcoming of the Stasi problem is of outstanding importance/ we consider the public's attention to the Stasi problem, which is now only reduced to the Stasi problem, to be very detrimental and wrong for the current difficult problems facing our people.../ thank you for your attention..."; Günter Eichhorn OT (Head of the GDR Committee for the Dissolution of the Stasi): "...was repeatedly reported about the dissolution of the state security/ would like to give them today more complex information about the state of the dissolution/ ....Since the beginning of the peaceful revolution, the dissolution of the power apparatus of the SED, superficially represented by the Ministry of State Security, had been the focus of public attention in our country/ with the decisions of the government at that time, however, this task was only tackled half-heartedly/ Work staff with less than 30 employees was to control the dissolution of the Ministry of State Security, who could never be able to do so/ after all, it was a security apparatus which, due to its staff and its level of equipment, eclipsed everything that had existed so far/ attempted to rescue part of the Ministry of State Security in a rebirth as a constitutional agency or intelligence service at the turn of the year, The fact that it was not possible for outsiders in October or December 1989 to recognize the extent, let alone the means and methods with which this security apparatus worked, throughout the entire country, to clearly recognize/events around the 15th anniversary of the war, was beyond question. January 1990 were finally reason for a consistent implementation of measures for the complete dissolution of this security apparatus / first measure was complete disarmament...". C1/1371: Continuation of the press conference on the dissolution of the Ministry of State Security (MfS); Günter Eichhorn OT (Head of the GDR Committee for the Dissolution of the Stasi): "...the decision of the Council of Ministers was passed on 08. The committee for the dissolution of the Office for National Security was formed/ Of the 860000 employees, 9200 worked to counter espionage, to safeguard the national economy and the state apparatus, and to combat oppositional and extremist efforts in the country/ 2170 employees were responsible for postal control in violation of postal secrecy/ 1480 employees for telephone surveillance..../ 4000 employees in the reconnaissance activity and external defence/ 8420 employees were busy with electronic reconnaissance and defence.../ Ministry for State Security had ultra-modern technology/ more than 10000 employees worked in the district offices of the former State Security..."; Eichhorn OT to the district offices and the tasks; Eichhorn OT on personnel: "...furthermore 12000 people were working in cross-border traffic for the control and 16000 employees in the guard regiment and in the security units/ these former employees were dismissed by the committee for the dissolution of the Office for National Security until March 31, 1990/ between 400 and 600 dismissals were necessary per day/ thus the personnel capacity of the service units and structures was destroyed/ the process did not take place on its own initiative/ constant confrontations/ in part still/ gradually implemented measures to reduce privileges in connection with the pension scheme of the Ministry of State Security..."; Diestel OH; Diestel drinks water; Diestel looks at Eichhorn; Eichhorn OH; Lectern HT; Eichhorn OT: "...Idea is therefore a focal point in the current historical reappraisal of the history of the Ministry of State Security/ first editorial publication of the Committee of Documents was the book 'Ich liebe euch doch alle'/in addition, intensive public relations work is carried out daily/ various insinuations...Attempts to disguise facts...in relation to the activities of the MfS must be decisively rejected/ Part of the movable property and stock has been sold in recent months/ Public sale/ Proceeds so far 13 million Marks of the GDR.../ Sale of computer technology has yielded 33 million Marks..."; Eichhorn OT: "...the present Unification Agreement stipulates that the assets of the former MfS are to be transferred to the Treuhandanstalt/ tasks of documenting the history of the MfS, including a research and memorial site, residual work for the removal of general documents to be destroyed as well as the complex of social services are to be transferred to the Federal Minister of the Interior/ the Committee as such will in the foreseeable future discontinue work/ the tasks to be solved are to be continued in the Treuhandanstalt and in the Federal Ministry of the Interior/ special attention is to be paid by the Committee to the transfer of the assets of the former MfS to the Treuhandanstalt/ until the 30th anniversary of the foundation of the MfS.09. the processing of applications for the transfer of assets is carried out by municipalities, towns and districts, insofar as these assets are required for self-administration tasks, municipal and service tasks and the self-financing is possible for this/all other assets are transferred to the Treuhandanstalt..."; Eichhorn OT: "...the inglorious past must be overcome on the basis of principles of the rule of law, so that the citizens of our country can shape their future unencumbered by it/ thank me"; Diestel responds to questions from journalists: Diestel OT for file archiveing/ Krauses setting: "....I have the task as Minister of the Interior and as Member of Parliament, who I have a vote of 400 in Parliament, to implement what the majority of Parliament or the future Bundestag decides/ Centralisation of the files is a procedural issue/ Of course the files can also be stored safely at great expense in the current district offices/ I am of the opinion that it would be better on one point, because one could better organise the guarding effort and the safe custody/ Mr Krause has expressed himself, my personal opinion/ cannot enforce it administratively/ I depend on what the Volkskammer decides..."; Diestel OT on hysteria in connection with the Stasi/ Example: "...harms us all, because the real masterminds - namely the SED, Central Committee and Politburo - are completely ignored/ Examples of unexplained deaths..."; This is OT for the death of Dean Reed; Diestel criticises the representation of Reed's death by the Stasi; Diestel and Eichhorn OH; Diestel OT on the Barschel affair; Diestel OT: "...but to reduce everything to the Stasi is simply wrong..."; Diestel OT: "...I am carried by the thought that this chapter Stasi, Stasi files and the like, may not torpedo the German Unity and the Unification Treaty in any way/ if it were to be published at this point, then it would be like this/ Unification Treaty will certainly not be specified contentwise - according to my estimation - but consider it very necessary that the things which the occupiers also demand, which are not so far away from my original considerations, should be the same....this exchange of notes will to a large extent result in the result that the demands of the Volkskammer ...that these contents be implemented in a common German legal order after the 03.10."; Diestel OT: "...Negotiation commission of the GDR went into the negotiations with the intention and with the intent to implement what the People's Chamber had instructed it to do...was not able to assert itself against the different legal opinion of the German side at that time / now the far-reaching consensus has been reached / Volkskammer has brought about this correction and not the street, nor the squatters in the Normannenstraße, but the Volkskammer / expression of the new democracy / correctly so that we do not let ourselves be blackmailed, but that here a functioning young parliament has asserted itself in an excellent way; Attorney General Seidel OT: "...can inform them that extensive relations have been established in these matters between the Office of the Attorney General of the Federal Republic of Germany and the Office of the Attorney General General of the GDR, which are aimed at providing legal assistance in the investigation of crimes committed in the Federal Republic of Germany/ insofar as they concern criminal offences on the territory of the GDR, We have already secured a number of documents in this connection and, in response to very detailed information from the Attorney General on structures, responsibilities and documents which could play a role in this context, we have taken up investigations and will make them available immediately if they are meaningful and promote clarification."; Eichhorn OT: "....I would like to say in response that, while acknowledging this fundamental concern, and here I agree with the Minister in his remarks that the problems formulated by the occupiers there as an appeal also represent my view, but I must make it clear that I must carry out such a measure under normal constitutional conditions, if there was an identity card under the pretext that there was no right of entry to the archives, the attempt is made to get into such a house, property damage is done, the seal is broken, then I have quite simply the duty as a legal entity for this object to have an investigation carried out, so no statement has yet been made as to whether it is in any way a criminal relevance / have initiated such an investigation order...that's right." Diestel OT: "....it is completely undisputed that this is a violation of the law which was carried out here / as Minister of the Interior I have the task of implementing order and security and also the legal provisions / if I had done in this case / am of course against a forcible eviction / would like to tell you that this eviction is no longer within my competence, because the head of state of our GDR, Dr. Sabine Bergmann-Pohl, has decided in this matter and has asked in principle, since it is a politically motivated and not other in the sense of criminal law or in the sense of administrative offence, to accept that this occupation is tolerated as long as possible on the same conditions also/have the necessary discipline vis-à-vis the head of state of our country to accept this as well. C1/1372: Continuation of the press conference on the dissolution of the Ministry of State Security (MfS); Diestel responds to journalists' questions; Diestel OT: "...I understand the content demands of the occupiers/ I am not so far away from my original opinion/ I have always held the opinion that it is a GDR problem and the files must not be suitable to divide the GDR people apart and German civil servants may not reach into the bag and say 'Who is that?' and then the file pull 'Aha, encumbered or unencumbered'/ there is no contradiction to what Dr. Ullmann and Prof. Reich of the New Forum or of the Alliance '90, but I am not willing to court infringers who think they need not adhere to the order decreed in this state / I am willing to entertain myself with Mrs. Bohley and the others there / then we would have to make an appointment and I will gladly make the premises of my ministry available"; Thistel OH; Diestel OT: "...these accusations with the OibEs are of course clever/ but you can't accuse me of working with Stasi people here, if objectively there is no possibility for me as Minister of the Interior to unmask the OibEs?/ can only go the awkward way and that has been gone to talk with all people/ one or the other has admitted a little bit and then I have made extensive personnel decisions/ but if Mr. Gauck could decide to and he obviously has the information and numerous journalists have obviously also the information to give me these names, then I would immediately be able to make personnel decisions / possibly one tries here to harm the Minister of the Interior / that I go into the file archive, where I may not go at all, look at everything and do my own research, which I may not do at all, I will not do this action, because then I would not be worthy to be Minister of the Interior, then I would be a lawbreaker."; Speaker's podium HT; Thistel OT: "....I think it is impossible for a Member with a Stasi past to press a Member's chair next to me/ I think it is just as impossible for such a Member to perform his duties in the Bundestag in future/ Mr Brinksmeier would have had to answer this question until today, because he has so far chaired a parliamentary committee that would have had to clarify this question/ I am in the fortunate position that I, as a lawyer, examined my DSU Members at the time and can say that this group is clean and Diestel is also clean/ nothing has been corrected either/ I think it is just as impossible for such a Member to press a Member's chair next to me in the future/ Mr Brinksmeier should have had to answer this question until today, because he has so far chaired a parliamentary committee that would have had to clarify this question/ I am in the fortunate position that I, as a lawyer, examined my DSU Members at the time and can say that this group is clean and Diestel is also clean/ nothing has been corrected either.../ it is incomprehensible that this problem has not been resolved / I call on the group to clarify the problem / I do not know whether this is so very difficult / I am accused of having obstructed the work of this committee / I blocked the work of this committee for one day / I refused access to the files for one day because it was intended to inspect the material without lawyers or representatives of the Members concerned, because it was intended to have copies of the material....because this file material should be transported without police protection/thus a delay of one day has happened/ they know how long we are in office/as long is the committee that is supposed to clarify this question also appointed .../ I do not have any legal legitimation to do any checks on members of parliament in any way/ I will also guard myself/ but will make everything available that I can do as Minister of the Interior/ Police protection, technical equipment, possibly also vehicles to bring the investigators from one place to another, but the inspection of files itself is very clearly regulated/ is the task of another body"; Thistel OT: "....find it very questionable if the right hand of Mr. Brinksmeier, as the accusation says, I myself cannot comment on the accusation, because I myself do not do any research about it, but the fact that Mr. Ewert has not expressed himself for over a week is at least very questionable for me/ there is nothing known about a Stasi past of Mr. Ewert/ they have still addressed the archivists and other specialists on the part of the former MfS, the work that was done there / these people made themselves available to the citizen committees / there is no doubt at all about their Stasi past / in the Modrow government all electronic finding aids were destroyed / expert archivists are necessary / were hired in consultation with the citizen committee - before our time / have presented, how large the scope is/ is no secret/ would find it very useful that they are not former state security guards, but if this special knowledge is necessary for these dissolutions, for these inspections, then we would totally block the work, if we remove the only experts/ would consider it much more favorable, if there are perhaps archivists or experts with a not politically impairing past."; Diestel and Eichhorn OH; Diestel OT: "...there are many accusations against me and against the Ministry of the Interior that we withhold files/ have asked Mr. Secretary of State Müller and Mr. Attorney General Seidel to process the 150 km of files/ long searches necessary/ not possible to get immediate access..."; Diestel OT: "...then of course I must first talk to the people who seriously seek to talk to me and then with those who are pushing themselves in with political violence/ of course I would talk to Mrs. Bohley and the others / but I will not document with a visit there in these occupied rooms my consent for their action / am against squatting / am against trespass / am quite simple, conservative lawyer ..."" Squirrel OH; Eichhorn OT on unemployment: "...on the question of 86000 employees and unemployment, I have to tell you that we currently have only little knowledge, because no definitive statistics are kept by the employment office through the placement and also onward placement of such unemployed people / cannot derive any definitive statement .../ does not give any concrete overview from the ministry and the committee for the dissolution of the office cannot give such an overview either"; Eichhorn OT: "....can say in any case clearly that a number of structures which have been dissolved in principle, but tasks of course had to be taken over by other central bodies, think of such things as border protection, such as customs bodies, such as the fight against terrorism and much more / here it would be necessary to give them another definitive statement / have concrete figures at the moment / the unofficial staff, there was a statement in the past months, that we estimate approximately 100-110 000 unofficial employees (IM) / after the research we have gained the insight that this number of unofficial employees is obviously not yet sufficient / one could come to the conclusion that the number of unofficial employees could increase by a factor of five / definitely does not give clear statements if one would not try to forest the files in detail / is an unsolvable task..."; Diestel and Eichhorn OH; Diestel OT at home in Zeuthen: "...according to my knowledge there is a so-called Herzog-Villa in Zeuthen, but I do not live in it/ this is a guesthouse of the MfS, but I have nothing to do with it/ this is mediated through the trust to any interested party/ there are 5-6 million, I was not interested in this building/ my personal budget exceeded far ..."; Speaker's podium HT; The site of the Ministry of State Security in Norman Street: Burning candles on windowsills of guard houses (cut); wind-up and swivelling on closed gate (entrance); banner on gate with lettering "No access to our files for the secret services"; Burning candles on windowsills of guard houses (cut); wind-up and swivelling on closed gate with transparency; People's policeman sits on platform of lorry (truck) and reads newspaper; puller and swing on entrance with banner "No access to our files for the secret services" at the gate (side); Panning and zooming in on people policemen in the truck; Transparent with the lettering "No union of Stasi and BND" hangs between masts; Pulling up and swinging on vigil with tent in front of the Stasi headquarters; People stand around information booth; Wolf Biermann OH in conversation with two men; zoom on Biermann close; burning candles on the windowsill of the guard house in front of the Stasi headquarters; Reminder guard in front of the Stasi headquarters T with street in the VG; swing over the building complex and back; Detail German flag GA with printed symbol of the GDR peace movement "Swords to Ploughshares"; Posters glued on traffic signs with the writing "Heute wieder Demo 17 Uhr"; A group of people in front of the information stand; Frog's perspective tent of the vigil cut as well as sign with stroke "Wir lassen nicht locker" at the Trabant; Information sheet of the new forum behind car windshield with stroke "The Stasi files belong to us..."; Biermann in interview; audience close, various shots; Transparent on construction fence with quote: "Germany is the only country where lack of political ability secures the way to the highest honorary posts! Carl von Ossietzky"; Men talking; Signature lists on table GA; People talk; Biermann close; Biermann speaks to the people; Biermann OT: "...do you understand? I haven't thought about it at all/ the files, if you string them together, make a distance of 100 or 150 km/ now they find their file in this sea/ is like a tear in the ocean/ they only get to this file if they have the file card that contains the code with which they find this file at all/ so it's enough just to go into the file card section, take away the card and the file will never be found again/ you don't even have to run away with the files and smuggle it through..."; People's policemen check the people at the entrance; the press is not admitted; Discussion about admission; Press conference of the occupiers; Occupant OT: "....you have seen through this short demonstration what the statements of the Minister of the Interior are basically worth/ promise the press conference, if we want to hold it, in house 21 has been worth just as much/ still the press has not had free access to the house / as we still demand it / had offered this morning a telephone conversation with Secretary of State Krause/ has offered, If, in the negotiations with Bonn which he is conducting today, he basically gets the green light to come here this afternoon and explain to us what is to be included in the exchange of notes/have a position on it/ continue to insist on our demand that the law of 24 March should be passed.08, which the Volkskammer reaffirmed one week later, will be fully included in Annex Two of the State Treaty as continuous law/all regulations with regard to the files, since they are a part of GDR history, since the MfS has grown out of this ideology, must also be clarified here in the GDR before the 03rd Reich. October and that cannot be left to an all-German parliament / have further demands / insight for everyone into his personal file / have pointed out in our open letter that these files must be treated differently, because there are three different types of files / can be regulated in an exchange of notes ...". C1/1373: Continuation of the press conference of the occupiers in front of the Stasi headquarters: Speaker OT: "....that it becomes clear in which way we are proceeding here / we had after the end of the people's chamber session still visit of several deputies / of the DSU, of the alliance 90, of the CDU / have tried to explain our position / to make clear why we basically work so hard for it, that the will of the People's Chamber finds attention in the negotiations on the state treaty / this morning the SPD Bundestag member Penner was with us and wanted to inform himself about what we demand / he once again favored the Thierse proposal of the day before yesterday, which also goes to the point that this law should remain valid until '95 at least / problem is in it, that this law must also be included in Annex Two for this purpose, because otherwise it cannot become a continuing valid law/ Regulation through an exchange of notes is not what we require/ we reject/ we must then already happen/ another important demand is the immediate resignation of Interior Minister Diestel/ I do not have to explain further after the spectacle at the gate/ yesterday afternoon even the vice-president of the People's Chamber should, Mr. Ullmann, not to be admitted/ succeeded only in negotiations with the object commander, although Mr. Diestel had first of all replied at the request of individual members of parliament that he could not imagine that something like this did not exist/ when the request came....cum publico, so to speak, 10 minutes later the phone rang and since yesterday evening all members of the People's Chamber and apparently also of the Bundestag have been able to come in unhindered"; OT spokesman on the question of whether Diestel is still a negotiating partner: "Was never actually a negotiating partner for us..."; various recordings of the journalists; Interview T; various recordings of the interview with the squatters; Wolf Biermann smiling; Biermann leaves; crowd of people around squatters
- TagsGerman Democratic Republic (GDR); German Unity; Reunification; Wende; Ministry for State Security (MfS); Dissolution (MfS); Decision of the Council of Ministers; Press Conference (PK); Minister of the Interior (GDR); Government (GDR); Committee Leader; State Security (Stasi); Minister (GDR); Dealing with the Past; Sensational Journalism; Criticism; Officers in Special Operations (OibE); Unification Treaty; Enlightenment; History (GDR); German Partition; Disarmament; Disarmament; Security Apparatus; District Office; Staff Reduction; Exchange of Notes; Personnel Decision; Proceeds; Sale; Asset value; File archiving; File; Safekeeping; Inspection; Squatters; Eviction; Death; Violation of law; Violation of law; Investigation; State secretary; Inofficial employee (IM); Transparent; Tent; Warning guard; Squatting; Normannenstraße; German People's Police (DVP); Stasi headquarters; Buildings; Peace Movement (GDR); Symbol; Disarmament; New Forum; Demonstration; Demonstration; Demonstration; Man; Artist; Access; Access; Singer-songwriter (GDR); Dissident; Occupant; Alliance 90; Opposition; Headquarters; Archive; Party (DDR); September
- Decade1990
- Production Year1990
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- Actors
- PersonalitiesPeter-Michael Diestel, Seidel, Günter Eichhorn, Wolf Biermann
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- CameraW. Kühne
- Original Clip IdentifierQ6UJ9A00AIL5
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