The Prohibited District: The Stasi Restricted Area Berlin–Hohenschönhausen

The Berlin-Hohenschönhausen Memorial recalls more vividly than any other site in Berlin the degree of terror and repression that existed in the GDR.
The memorial was located on a site that had not been identified on any map in East Germany. This was the area where the State Security Service established its central remand prison in

1. It was hermetically sealed and carefully monitored. After the war the Soviet occupiers maintained there a camp and later a remand prison.

1. After the Berlin Wall was erected, most of the inmates were regarded as "deserters of the republic" or "dissidents." The entire prison complex, which included the notorious "U-Boot" basement cells and the expansive interrogation wing, was designed break down the prisoners' resistance through psychological methods.