Bezirksverwaltung für Staatssicherheit Leipzig
In Leipzig, in the old building of the Bezirksverwaltung für Staatssicherheit (Stasi) now houses a museum that recalls the history of this building and the (dark side of) Stasi in the GDR.
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In Leipzig, in the old building of the Bezirksverwaltung für Staatssicherheit (Stasi) now houses a museum that recalls the history of this building and the (dark side of) Stasi in the GDR.
The old Stasi prison of Berlin still stands in the Lichtenberg district of Berlin. Built in 1938 as a factory and inaugurated in May 1945 by the Russian NKWD as a camp for “political prisoners”.
The Ministerium für Staatssicherheit (the Stasi or MfS) was the internal security service in the German Democratic Republic (GDR) and its headquarters was in the Lichtenberg district on Normannenstraße. Today it is used as a Stasi Museum.
Who in the GDR times was on the “Bautzner Straße” in Dresden usually had a huge problem because at that time the GDR Ministry for State Security (MfS / Stasi) was located there with a prison for “pre-trial detention”.
In June 1956 the first general strike broke out in Poznan and the first public demonstrations against the Communist policy that prevailed there (Poland) at the time. The protests were bloody suppressed by the military....