Berlin-Hohenschönhausen Memorial

The Berlin-Hohenschönhausen Memorial is a museum-memorial complex in the Alt-Hohenschönhausen district of Berlin at the site of the former Stasi prison. It is among the 20 most visited museums in the city.nImmediately after the end of the war in May 1945, the Soviet administration organized one of ten internment camps. In October 1946, the special camp was closed, and all contained in it were transferred to other internment camps. The Soviet occupying authorities organized a central investigative prison in the kitchen building, which was informally called the “submarine”, because its cells either had no windows at all or were tightly covered with tin sheets.nThe main objective of the memorial is to “study the history of Hohenschönhausen prison from 1945 to 1989, educate the general public through exhibitions, publications and various events, and also involve the public in critical discussions about the forms and consequences of political persecution and oppression during the communist era. dictatorships ”, for which it is considered necessary to preserve as much as possible the whole situation during the time of the prison in Hohenschönhausen.