In this episode of »Ask Dr. Wolle", the academic director of the DDR Museum reports on the events surrounding the takeover of the Stasi headquarters on 15 January 1990 in Berlin. He himself was there on that day. In this episode, he tells us how the storming of the Berlin Stasi headquarters came about and, at the same time, introduces the new card game »Stasi raus - es ist aus« (Stasi–over and out!), which was developed by Playing History in cooperation with the DDR Museum.

DDR Museum, 2020, https://www.ddr-museum.de/en

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Dr. Stefan Wolle:
Born in 1950, studied History at Humboldt University in Berlin, expulsion in 1972 for political reasons, worked in a production plant, 1976-89 employee of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR, 1984 promotion, 1990 employee of the Committee for the Dissolution of the Ministry of State Security, 1991-1996 Assistant at Humboldt University, 1996-1998 fellow of the German Research Foundation, 1998-2000 advisor at the Federal Foundation for the Study of the Communist Dictatorship in Eastern Germany, following this an independent author, temporary employee in the Research Association on the SED-State at the Free University in Berlin, the academic leader of the DDR Museum since 2005.