The tragic story of a young man who died defying the Stasi
Matthias Domaschk was only 23 years old when his lifeless body was found dangling from a heating pipe in a Stasi prison, on April 12 1981. Two days earlier, Matthias, known as “Matz” to his friends, had boarded the fast train from his hometown of Jena to East Berlin, the capital of East Germany, or the German Democratic Republic, as it was officially known. All he had wanted to do was attend a birthday party, but he never arrived.
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