Berlin-Hohenschönhausen Memorial

This guide to the Berlin-Hohenschönhausen Memorial follows what happened to someone pulled off a Berlin street and driven, disoriented, in a hidden compartment of a Stasi delivery van to East Germany's central political prison, which operated from 1951 until the Stasi fell in 1989. It traces the roughly eleven thousand people who passed through these gates, from the windowless submarine cells dug into the cellar by the Soviets to the later Stasi wing, where isolation and stolen sleep did the work violence once did. Stand in the garage where the vans once unloaded their prisoners.