Guided tour in German through the inside of the remand prison with a tour of the “Grotewohl Express”

The site was the GDR State Security central remand prison. Between 1951 and 1989, over 11,000 people were imprisoned here for political reasons.
Large parts of the site and the buildings have been preserved and provide an authentic impression of the conditions and everyday life in prison.
The tour includes a visit to the outdoor facilities, the cells and interrogation rooms and the last existing prisoner transport wagon from GDR times.
The so-called "Grotewohl Express", named after the former GDR Prime Minister Otto Grotewohl, was used to transfer prisoners between different prisons. 
 

Between 1951 and 1989, over 11,000 people were imprisoned for political reasons in the GDR State Security central remand prison.
Large parts of the site, which also houses the only State Security prison hospital, have been preserved and provide an authentic impression of prison conditions and everyday prison life.

The tour includes a visit to the grounds, the cells and interrogation rooms as well as the prison hospital including the X-ray unit, treatment, operating and laboratory rooms.
This is where the Stasi treated GDR refugees shot by border guards, political prisoners with injuries after suicide attempts and those who had gone on hunger strike or suffered from prison psychosis.
 

Between 1951 and 1989, over 11,000 people were imprisoned for political reasons in the GDR State Security central remand prison.
Large parts of the site, which also houses the only State Security prison hospital, have been preserved and provide an authentic impression of prison conditions and everyday prison life.

The tour offers a visit to the outdoor facilities, the cells and interrogation rooms as well as the work and accommodation rooms of the women's prison labour detail, which the Stasi used to accommodate the prisoners on remand. 
 

The remand centre at Berlin-Hohenschönhausen was located in a large Stasi military restricted area. Only closed metal gates, watchtowers, surveillance cameras and armed security guards were visible from the outside to unauthorised people. The site was marked as an empty area on the city maps of East Berlin.

The tour leads past buildings of the Stasi's so-called Operative Technical Sector, where eavesdropping devices and miniature cameras were manufactured, the Stasi's Nazi archive in the Heike Villa and "Camp X", where prisoners had to perform forced labour from the early 1950s onwards.