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The Safe That Betrayed a Stasi Master: Mielke's Hidden 1931 Files

The Safe That Betrayed a Stasi Master: Mielke's Hidden 1931 Files

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The Safe That Betrayed a Stasi Master: Mielke's Hidden 1931 Files

The safe in his home hid the original murder files from 1931 for sixty years - the very documents the Soviets expected him to destroy but he kept instead. How did a man who ordered border guards to shoot at the Berlin Wall preserve the evidence of a street assassination and what did those papers ultimately reveal about Erich Mielke?

In this episode, we trace Mielke's path from a nineteen‑year‑old KPD activist and Red Flag writer to the head of East Germany's surveillance state, and we follow the murder of Captain Paul Anlauf on August 9, 1931, to the long concealment of the files that helped bring him to trial in 1992. What did sixty years in a private safe say about the man who built a machine of fear?

Person: Erich Mielke
Event: Murder of Captain Paul Anlauf
Date: August 9, 1931
Location: Bülowplatz, Berlin (entrance of the Babylon Cinema)
Status: Trial held in 1992

- Mielke kept the original 1931 murder files locked in his home safe for sixty years.
- Erich Mielke was born on December 28, 1907, in Wedding, Berlin.
- On August 9, 1931, Mielke fired two shots that struck Captain Paul Anlauf in the neck, killing him at approximately 8:00 p.m.
- Two other officers were shot that night: Captain Franz Lenck (killed) and Senior Sergeant Max Willig (wounded, hospitalized for fourteen weeks).
- Fifteen members of the assassination team who remained in Germany were arrested and convicted on June 19, 1934; Max Willig was executed on May 22, 1935.

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