The Stasi Records Archive in numbers

• 111 km paper records
• of which 45 million index cards
• 45 km of filmed files
• 15.500 bags of torn files
• ca. 2 Mio. photos
• ca. 2.900 films and videos
• ca. 22.800 audio records
• 106 types of machine-readable data
• Nearly 1000 employees