Hohenschönhausen Prison

• Hohenschönhausen Prison is a German Stasi prison which is now a museum. 
• Finsished construction in 1939
• It was originally established in 1945 as a holding camp for those who would be later shipped to Soviet Camps known as Special Camp #3. 
•  1948-Labor
• More than 20,000 people 
• Not enough food
• Small and cramped areas for the amount of prisionsers
• Officail Soviet Statistics list about 900 deaths, but realisticly there were closer to 3000 in about one year
• In 1951 it became the main remand prison for the Stasi
• Contained a Hospital 

•  Under Stasi
• Contained various prisoners 
• Leaders of June 17, 1953 uprising
• Jehova's Wittenesses
• escapees - August 13, 1961
• Walter Linse
• Kidnapped in 1952 - executed in Moscow a year later
• Prisoners rarely knew why 
• Psychologically tortured - threaten them and their families and friends
• Physically tortured
• Many times were arrested and imprisoned for attempting to escape East Berlin 

• October 3, 1990 Prison was closed when the  German Democratic Republic became the Federal Republic of Germany

Prison watch tower 

Map of the Prison 

Inside the prison 

An overall look of the prison

Sources

Berlin guide. 2005. http://berlin.barwick.de/sights/east-berlin/hohenschoenhausen-memorial-center-prison-museum.html

http://en.stiftung-hsh.de/

 http://www.awayplan.com/germany/berlin/things-to-do/hohenschoenhausen-prison