Chemnitz. The remand prison of the Ministry of State Security in Karl-Marx-Stadt 21 May 1986: Shortly after 13 clock opens a gate at the back for Kaßberg road. Two West German tour bus with DDR-plate roll off the prison yard. Their destination: the border crossing point Warton near Eisenach. Three hours later, the bus driver is in no man's land to press a button: How in the East German spy movie license plate folds to a West German mark and comes to light - the way to the West is free.
It is a secret trip - and yet it remains in Karl-Marx-Stadt unattended. At the intersection street / road Limbacher, then listed a Stasi captain his observation, waiting to clock 13.15, a man and a woman. jumps when the traffic lights to red, the man collapsed on the street, waving both the Businsassen. Then someone discovered the young woman on the bus. She rows with her arms and shouts: "There is my sister." What the two young people in this observe May Day 1986, at which time long since become routine. The GDR sold their people to the West. Political prisoners against foreign currencies - since 1963 is that way. And starting in 1964, the Stasi prison in Karl-Marx-Stadt, the central hub - apparently because of the convenient location. For each GDR regime opponents, who landed on the open-buy list, the Kaßberg is the last stop on the way to freedom. Today, 20 years after the fall of this chapter in the history of the house seems largely forgotten. The record is scarce, is a comprehensive documentation of it.
separated from the MDI - the Stasi as a state within a state
The prison on the Kaßberg in 2009. Government Oberrätin Susan Schmelcher and the security guard Thomas Wolf close to the journalists on the doors. Through a security gate and it's corridors of the former prison of the GDR Ministry of the Interior (MDI) in the Zwischenhof with the Stasi complex. "The two areas were separated hermetically from each other," says Thomas Wolf. The 42-year-old had begun in 1987 in MDI's prison service. When it came turn to back he and his colleagues the Stasi area. "We are in awe crept through the aisles. That was by then so secret it was never allowed to do something with it," says Wolf. The Stasi, the state was in StaateDie Division XIV of the former Stasi district administration is a massive, gray building - from the outside many of the old substance, partly restored from the inside functional. In the show "special tasks" certain Verwahrtrakt B ransom prisoners were housed. "Bird cage" of the wings in an allusion to the lawyer Wolfgang Vogel was called, of the transactions on behalf of the East German government abwickelte.Besonders flourished in the 80 years of human trafficking between the East and West - the East went bankrupt in the foreign exchange purchase all the stops. And the Stasi even had logistical problems. In a report dated May 1986, some complained about difficulties to meet the delivery times in Karl-Marx-Stadt. The dates were always short-term, Documents had to raise it in time. Were added, the show acts of Birthler authority curious "special trips" as in May 1986, when a purchase is sent to free some prisoners by Karl-Marx-Stadt for the divorce of his marriage to Wolgast. The rush is so great that the Stasi noticed only at the stop in Berlin: The prisoner must not be present to the process. As a result, records a Stasi-scribe: "Four employees unnecessarily waste a workday and fuel for 600 kilometers." The pre-trial detention was once the largest area in the Stasi prison in the Kaßberg. There are still relics of the past remained. Before the prison shop, where inmates now with shower and stock up sweets, four gray doors leading into chambers of the size of a broom closet. Less than one square meter of new arrivals remained standing in the cells before the first hearing. Some living cells that are no longer occupied, still contain original inventory: wash basins, plastic faucet and toilet bowl made in GDR. Only the obligatory glass blocks that once prevented any view into the open, were ausgebaut.Der ends tour of the backyard. There, inmates play volleyball on a modern tartan square. 20 years ago, it looked different: eight open boxes, gray walls, in the middle of a post tower. In the plant covered with wire mesh, the so-called "pig pens" the detainees had their daily hour to complete clearance. "You would have to document all times," said security guard Wolf. And government Oberrätin Schmelcher notes soberly: "Here, nobody cares for it." Retirement work before the house: "That chapter is closed" one who could tell, to this day, lives a stone's throw from his former workplace. If Helmut Klinger, Stasi retired major, looking out of a kitchen window, he has the JVA Kaßberg front of you. Inside, he was, he says, since not change. "I would like to see every now and how it looks today," says the 82-year-old. But then held him off but something. "The Chapter has been for me, "says the 80 years er.In Klinger was deputy head of the Stasi underground prison. He has ensured proper procedures in the house, he summarizes his work. This included such that Smokers and nutcrackers, the a 40-man work detail from prisoners made were served properly by the people in the buses, he will have hardly noticed.. "You did all the comrades from Berlin" In retrospect, justifies Klinger, he did after the Nazi era want to help that such a thing does not repeat. And lastly, those who sat for the Stasi in prison for breaking the law. "Those who violated the state border, knew that this was a punishable offense." Sabine Popp had made under the East German criminal law. As a student she creates sensational late 70s off state-critical solutions such as "Class Order reunification and" wall "on streets and walls in the Vogtland. After she squealed a schoolmate in Reichenbach, she was sentenced to five years imprisonment and bailed after two years and three months . The last days of the "bird cage" it has now cleared largely from her memory - ". because I did not really gone," Nevertheless, Sabine Popp, who now lives again in the Vogtland, in retrospect grateful for every minute in the West, "Who knows. what made in the GDR with me had. "From the Oliver HachStichwort Kaßberg Prison The prison on the Kaßberg built in 1886 as the Royal Saxon prisoners institution. It consisted of the round and administration building with the Wings A to C. After the Second World War moved the Soviet military administration, was later from the remand prison of the Stasi district administrative Karl-Marx-Stadt. There were, according to the research and memorial Norman Street in the 80 years up to 700 prisoners one. In addition a further 300 were in the building D. This was only after the Second World War completed and stood under the East German Ministry of the Interior (MDI). Today, sitting in the prison Kaßberg up to 200 penalty and remand one. (OHA)
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