Gedenk- und Bildungsstätte Andreasstraße

Museum in Erfurt, Germany

The Memorial and Education Centre Andreasstraße (German: Gedenk- und Bildungsstätte Andreasstraße), is a museum in Erfurt, Germany, which is housed in a former prison used by the East German Ministry for State Security (Stasi). It is informally known as the Stasi Museum. From 1952 until 1989, over 5000 political prisoners were held on remand and interrogated in the Andreasstraße prison, which was one of 17 Stasi remand prisons in the German Democratic Republic (East Germany). The museum was opened in 2013 as a memorial to repression and resistance in the Thuringia region during the GDR dictato

From Memorial and Education Centre Andreasstraße on Wikipedia, CC BY-SA.

Where:
Erfurt, Germany

Coordinates:
50.98°N, 11.02°E

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