Neustrelitz (dpa/mv) – In Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, another exhibition in an authentic prison commemorates the fate of prisoners in the GDR state security. The exhibition with 22 interviews by former prisoners and also with guards of the GDR secret service is located in the former Stasi detention center in downtown Neustrelitz, as the operator association announced on Monday. For this purpose, the prison in the courtyard of the former district court was restored over a number of years with the support of the State Ministry of Culture and provided with modern exhibition media.
The Neustrelitz site served as a prison for the Neubrandenburg district headquarters of the State Security for around 30 years until 1987, when a new, large district headquarters of the State Security was built in Neubrandenburg. In the GDR, the Ministry for State Security had 17 such pre-trial detention centers, in which mostly critical GDR citizens who were willing to flee were imprisoned.
The fate of Stasi prisoners is also remembered at authentic locations in Schwerin and Rostock. The Neustrelitz association, which ex-prisoners helped to found, wants to keep the memory of injustice alive with its work and at the same time enable democracy and history education.
