Between 1951 and 1990, the Berlin-Mitte remand prison, or also called UHA II, was located in Keibelstraße on Berlin’s Alexanderplatz. As an institution under the control of the Ministry of the Interior, people awaited the outcome of their trials on various alleged offences in the prison, which was located within the East Berlin Presidium of the People’s Police.
The angry mood of the autumn of 1989 was also reflected in the detention center: one person destroyed his cell furnishings, other inmates rioted on their way to the prison yard on the roof or increasingly tried to make contact with each other. Calls for “amnesty for all” rang out from several cells.
To mark the 35th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Keibelstraße learning site is offering a public guided tour on 9 November 2024 at 12 noon, in which the history of the site and the conditions of detention in the former remand prison will be presented.
Please register: [email protected]
For further information please consider the event page at Lernort Keibelstrasse.
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