Sven O. Hill

Shortly after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Stasi shredded hundreds of kilometers of sensitive documents during its final hours of operation. The documents were never completely destroyed. Since reunification, a department has been piecing these Stasi scraps back together.

Hamburg, Germany, summer 1988. A young bank employee embezzles a large amount of money using an ingenious technique and flees to Australia, from where he phones his girlfriend to tell her what he has done so easily; but her reaction is not what he naively expected.

Shortly after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Stasi shredded hundreds of kilometers of sensitive documents during its final hours of operation. The documents were never completely destroyed. Since reunification, a department has been piecing these Stasi scraps back together.

Shortly after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Stasi shredded hundreds of kilometers of sensitive documents during its final hours of operation. The documents were never completely destroyed. Since reunification, a department has been piecing these Stasi scraps back together.

Hamburg, Germany, summer 1988. A young bank employee embezzles a large amount of money using an ingenious technique and flees to Australia, from where he phones his girlfriend to tell her what he has done so easily; but her reaction is not what he naively expected.

Hamburg, Germany, summer 1988. A young bank employee embezzles a large amount of money using an ingenious technique and flees to Australia, from where he phones his girlfriend to tell her what he has done so easily; but her reaction is not what he naively expected.