13 January 2000. Thanks to Quintessenz and Primavista.
The Stasi List: ftp://ftp.uni heidelberg.de/incoming/ma_stasi.zip (1.5MB)
Cryptome mirror: http://cryptome.org/ma_stasi.zip; or ftp://cryptome.org/ma_stasi.zip
Parrhesia mirror: http://www.parrhesia.com/ma_stasi.zip
http://www.zdnet.de/news/artikel/2000/01/13012-wc.html
ZDNet, Germany
13 January 2000
The desired Stasi List, which was available during the past weekend under www.nierenspende.de ready for download, until the administrator closed it again due to "legal doubts," is again available under other URLs.
On the bulletin board of the Gauck authority (http://www.snafu.de/~bstu/schwbrett/wwwboard.html) Internet addresses are listed from which the large 1.5 MByte "zip" file can be obtained. "Alone the past Saturday we had for our site over 37,000 accesses," ZDNet was told by the operator of the site, who would in particular not like to be named. Thousands of downloads were made on weekend.
To the question, why was the list -- which names coworkers of the Stasi in particular with date of birth and income -- placed on the Net, the 57-year-old former East German official answers: "We cannot conceal it any more. There was a dictatorship, and many of the informers are again today in the highest positions."
He points to the fact that after the blockage the list is offered again for download on foreign sites.
This wish was fulfilled in the meantime: The desired file is to be found among other things on the server of Xoom.com. "The only way which will help us bring democracy back to its feet is the Internet," explains the administrator of the site. It states that the owner of the domain changed in the meantime and the former owner announced to the Denic he does not have to do anything with the Stasi list.