“The Stasi Had a Giant Smell Register of Dissidents”
July 29th, 2021Via: DW:
German police have been accused of using Stasi methods after admitting to using “scent profiling” of G8 activists. In an interview, the head of the Stasi museum in Leipzig explains why the issue is so emotive.
Tobias Hollitzer is the head of the Stasi “Runde Ecke” Museum in the eastern German city of Leipzig. A row of sealed jars, each containing a seemingly innocuous yellow dust cloth, forms part of the museum’s permanent exhibition. But these jars were part of the East German secret police’s collection of scent samples used to keep track of dissidents.
Hollitzer talked to DW-WORLD.DE about the Stasi’s collection of people’s smells and what he thinks of law enforcement using the method today.
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