PLÖTZENSEE MEMORIAL
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A memorial site where political prisoners of the Nazi regime were interned and sentenced to death in Berlin.
It was here, in Plötzensee prison, that the political prisoners of the Nazi regime were interned and sentenced to death. As a result of the sentences handed down by the People's Court(Volksgerichtshof), 2,883 people of 20 different nationalities died here. Guillotined or hanged, their bodies were then sent to the Institute of Anatomy of the University of Berlin. Since 1952, the site has been a memorial.
The execution chamber can be seen today. The guillotine has disappeared, but the hooks still bear witness to executions by hanging. In the adjoining room, you will discover a quality historiographical work, both complete and clear. The short biographies highlight the diversity of the profiles of those condemned to death. Liselotte Hermann, an opponent of the regime, guilty of being in league with Communists abroad; Emmy Zehden, a Jehovah's Witness, guilty of hiding her nephew to protect him from military service; Karlrobert Kreiten, a pianist, guilty of "defeatism" and "demoralizing the troops" after confessing to a friend that he thought the war was lost and that Hitler was a madman; Albert Tamboer, guilty of stealing two cans of fish... One is chilled by the cynicism of the Nazis when one discovers a bill addressed to family members detailing the costs of incarceration and execution.
At the entrance of the camp, an urn filled with earth from the concentration camps serves as a symbol for all the victims.
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