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Germany: Stasi Smell Museum

Written byVeronica Khokhlova

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Read this post in Português, Ελληνικά
Posted 3 July 2007 20:48 GMT

Boing Boing writes about the Stasi Smell Museum: “The Stasi — East German secret police — kept an enormous museum of ‘smell samples’ of German citizens, kept in case they ever needed to give hunting dogs the scent of a fugitive criminal.”

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Written byVeronica Khokhlova

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