A paper shredder is a mechanical device used to cut sheets of paper into either strips or fine particles. Government organizations, businesses, and private individuals use shredders to destroy private, confidential, or otherwise sensitive documents.
Paper shredder with built-in wastebasket
Inner view of a paper shredder with motor
Detail of a cross-cut paper shredder
Multi-cut scissors used to shred paper
The Ministry for State Security, commonly known as the Stasi, an abbreviation of Staatssicherheit, was the state security service of East Germany from 1950 to 1990.
The main entrance to the Stasi headquarters in Berlin
Citizens protesting and entering the Stasi building in Berlin; the sign accuses the Stasi and SED of being Nazi-like dictators (1990).
The former Stasi Prison, Erfurt
Cells in Bautzner Strasse Memorial, Dresden