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| Current News | 05.01.2010
New visitor's record in 2009
 The memorial Berlin-Hohenschönhausen has posted a new record: In 2009, 314.000 people have visited the former central political prison of the East-German State Security (Stasi). The year before, 249.000 people came to visit the memorial - an increase of 26 percent. In conclusion, since its creation in 1994 more than 1,7 millions of people have visited the Stasi-prison.
| | 20.05.2009
Memorial takes part in anniversary celebrations
 The Berlin-Hohenschönhausen Memorial will be taking part in the official 60th anniversary-celebrations of the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) on the 23rd May. Between the Brandenburg Gate and the “Siegessäule”, former detainees of the Stasi-prison will talk about their experiences during remand. Visitors will also have
| | 06.05.2009
German Chancellor Merkel meets last political prisoners of the GDR
During her visit in the Berlin-Hohenschönhausen Memorial on Tuesday (5th May 2009), German Chancellor Angela Merkel met the last detainees of the former Stasi-prison. They had regained freedom in the course of the Peaceful Revolution in the GDR in the autumn of 1989.
As a consequence of the ...
| | 06.05.2009
Jürgen Fuchs – Vernehmungsprotokolle („Interrogation Protocols“)
No one else has described the subtle cruelty of the GDR State Security as precise as the deceased author and psychologist Jürgen Fuchs. He had been exposed to the methods of the interrogation specialists in the main remand prison in Berlin-Hohenschönhausen for nine months, from 19th November to 26th August 1977. After his release he wrote ...
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