Stasi Prison Bautzen II 1956-1989. Catalog Accompanying the Exhibition at the Bautzen
MemorialISBN 978-3-95498-450-3Bautzen II was the only GDR prison unofficially controlled by the
Ministry for State Security. Disguised as a normal penal institution on the outside the prison
took on a special position as of 1956. It was here that the State Security locked away
particularly dangerous enemies of the state. Bautzen II served the purpose of detaining members
of the opposition spies those fleeing the GDR and their helpers in the West as well as
renegades within the heads of the GDR's state and military apparatus. The history of the
Bautzen II Stasi prison ends with the collapse of the SED dictatorship in 1989.A View into the
book you can find under http: verlag.sandstein.de reader 98-450_Stasi-Bautzen
