Berlin
Victorious look, fist in the air and a waving flag decorated with a hammer and sickle: the bronze bust for the communist leader Ernst Thälmann survived the fall of the GDR.
Berlin-Hohenschönhausen Memorial
The Stasi prison Hohenschönhausen is hidden in an ordinary neighbourhood in Berlin. From 1951 onwards, the GDR regime interrogated and imprisoned thousands of political prisoners here.
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