Officials from the Central Bureau of Statistics and the Stasi (Ministry for State Security) found shelter there; even after German reunification in 1990, the building continued to be used as a Federal Bureau of Statistics regional department.
The gates were locked in 2008 because the building no longer meets contemporary requirements. The wall painting by Paris was dismantled. It now hangs in the DDR Museum, a "unique testimony of that time," according to the museum itself, a "glorification of communism," according to the Berliner Zeitung newspaper.