"Using the institute's expertise in pattern-matching technology, he and his colleagues are about to embark on one of the biggest jigsaw puzzles of all time—or, rather, 45m of them. For that is the number of pages which the 600m fragments of paper, stored in more than 16,000 bags that were recovered from Normannenstrasse, are thought to represent."
"WHEN the shredding machines failed and the mob was at the gates, the spooks at East Germany's State Security Service, better known as the Stasi ... resorted to tearing each page up by hand. The fact that many of the resulting shreds are only a few millimetres across is testament to just how much the soon-to-be-ex-members of the intelligence service did not want their work to fall into the public domain."
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