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- Depicts the opening of the "Marlene Dietrich Collection Berlin" exhibition. Some 300,000 items that the city of Berlin acquired on September 14, 1993 at Sotheby's in New York. The part of the estate on sale consists of clothes, screenplays, letters, graphics, costume designs, pieces of jewellery, furniture, and luggage. The Berliners paid five million dollars for the memorabilia of the diva. A sheik is said to have offered more, but the daughter Maria Riva does not like the thought that the memories of her mother could disappear in the desert. Today, a large part of the collection is housed in the Berlin Film Museum. The exhibition dedicates three rooms to the Prussian prima donna.
- The battle of Mainzer Straße took place in Friedrichshain, East Berlin between 12 and 14 November 1990. It was a major incident in the history of the city, following the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. The magistrate of East Berlin decided to evict a row of squatted apartment blocks and the autonomous movement resisted the eviction for three days, until the buildings were all evicted by the police.
- "The Last Trabant" - begins at the site of the Sachsenring automobile factory and various satellites are shown. Employees then comment on the cessation of production. In the last part, a farewell ceremony is shown in the assembly hall, which is accompanied by a live band. The second volume continues the farewell to Trabant production. A speech by Kurt Hans Biedenkopf and statements by the employees can also be seen. The last part of the second volume shows demolition work in the workshop. A total of 3,096,999 Trabants were produced.
- A visit to the Stasi bunker that in the event of a voltage failure, the object 17/5005 should offer protection to Minister Erich Mielke and his staff. However, there were other areas of activities that suited this place underground.
- "Residences for foreigners in the GDR" - includes an interview with an employee from the immigration center expresses, among other things, on the subject of xenophobia in the GDR, the role of foreigners in the GDR, social tensions and the relationship between GDR citizens and foreigners. Followed by an interview with the director of the residence for foreigners who mention various problems and changes since the fall of the wall and competition in companies.
- Featuring an interview with Joachim Wiegand, who organizes an exhibition with Stasi relics that the citizens' committee has collected, which deals with the processing of the history of the GDR. The interview is conducted in the building of the former Ministry for State Security (MfS). Wiegand goes into the following topics: possible trivialization of state security, Stasi culture, parallels to Nazi art, support from the Ministry of the Interior and the effect of the exhibits. In addition, recordings of the various objects are shown.
- Police officers of the East German People's Police in the Chamber of Clears Affairs when trying their new work clothes, edition of the uniforms, statements from the former folk police officers and recordings of various emergency vehicles from the Berlin police.
- An exhibition in House 1 of the former headquarters of the Ministry for State Security (MfS). Featuring "Day X" referred to East German plans for military conquest of West Berlin during the 1970s and 80s. In the latter part of the Cold War, detailed plans existed to attack and conquer West Berlin on a moment's notice in case of a military conflict. Only the highest-ranking members of East German leadership had full knowledge of it. The plans were top-secret and did not come to lights until after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and German reunification in 1990. To head off discovery, most details were communicated only verbally. Few documents survived. Most were shredded. Only one document with Erich Mielke's handwriting survived. He was the head of the Stasi, East Germany's state security service.
- In 1972, in a secret trial, 5 men were sentenced to 10 to 15 years in prison for the planned assassination attempt on the head of state of the GDR - Walter Ulbricht. They have served their sentence, even if such an assassination was only in the eyes of the investigators. In the Thuringian town of Steinbach, people didn't love the authorities so much and politics was scolded in various pub talks. Especially since the representatives of the party and state leadership took a cure right in front of the Steinbachers in the nearby sanatorium. The Steinbachers are also passionate hunters. All of this in connection with anti-state statements in the local pub triggered the highest level of alert from the Stasi. Two suspected "enemies of the state" were arrested, and the entire town was suddenly in the investigators' net. Weapons were found and other people arrested. From 1968 to 1972, the GDR State Security Service meticulously put together a puzzle using extorted confessions and suitable clues, which resulted in a precisely prepared assassination attempt. After four years of investigations, the Stasi needed success, but could only present flimsy information. Nevertheless, the penalties for the main suspects were unusually high.