Stasi Museum (Photo courtesy: Fridolin freudenfett / CC BY-SA 4.0 / Wikimedia Commons)
Berlin: Berlin's Stasi Museum, which showcases items of East Germany's hated secret police, was burgled overnight, authorities said Sunday, days after a spectacular heist in Dresden.
The burglars broke in through a window on the first floor, and "smashed several showcases, and stole medals and jewellery", said police in a statement.
They made off with their spoils undetected.
The hour of the raid was unclear but a museum employee found showcases smashed in the exhibition rooms on Sunday morning.
The latest robbery came hot on the heels of a brazen heist at the Green Vault museum in Dresden's Royal Palace on November 25.
Having sparked a partial power cut before breaking in through a window, the thieves stole priceless 18th-century diamond jewellery -- including a famous 49-carat Dresden white -- from the collection of the Saxon ruler August the Strong.
Police are still hunting four suspects, and have offered half a million euros ($550,000) in reward for information leading to an arrest or recovery of the stolen goods.
Fears are growing however that the diamonds will never be recovered.
