To commemorate the 25th anniversary of the founding of the GDR, this exhibition aimed to demonstrate the development of the socialist state using the town of Stralsund as an example. According to surviving documents, the exhibition dealt not only with political and economic topics, but also with the “care and maintenance of our cultural heritage”. This necessarily meant the inclusion of the Hiddensee Hoard, which, according to the official narrative, was secured and “rescued” by the Soviet military administration in the confusion of the post-war period. The efforts made by Fritz Adler, museum director of the time, to ensure the return of the hoard to the museum were of course quietly ignored (cf. film in TO CONCEAL).