Editing Stasi (section)

===Erfurt===
[[File:Former Stasi Prison, Erfurt.jpg|thumb|The former [[Stasi Prison (Erfurt)|Stasi Prison]], Erfurt]]
[[Memorial and Education Centre Andreasstraße]] – a museum in [[Erfurt]] which is housed in a former Stasi remand prison. From 1952 until 1989, over 5000 political prisoners were held on remand and interrogated in the Andreasstrasse prison, which was one of 17 Stasi remand prisons in the GDR.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Wüstenberg |first1=Jenny |title=Civil Society and Memory in Postwar Germany |date=2017 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |location=Cambridge | language =en |isbn= 978-1-1071-7746-8|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4jQyDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA223}}</ref><ref>[https://www.stiftung-ettersberg.de/en/andreasstrasse/ Stiftung Ettersberg. Andreasstrasse] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190711083542/https://www.stiftung-ettersberg.de/en/andreasstrasse/ |date=11 July 2019 }}. Retrieved 18 August 2019</ref> On 4 December 1989, local citizens occupied the prison and the neighbouring Stasi district headquarters to stop the mass destruction of Stasi files. It was the first time East Germans had undertaken such resistance against the Stasi and it instigated the take over of Stasi buildings throughout the country.<ref name=local>[https://www.thelocal.de/20141204/how-ordinary-people-smashed-the-stasi How ordinary people smashed the Stasi] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190711084543/https://www.thelocal.de/20141204/how-ordinary-people-smashed-the-stasi |date=11 July 2019 }} in [[The Local|The Local.de]], 4 December 2014. Retrieved 25 July 2019</ref>