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Witness History: Inside an East German jail

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13/08/2021 GMT

Inside an East German jail

BBC World Service - Witness History, Inside an East German jail

Vera Lengsfeld was imprisoned by the communist authorities in East Germany in 1988

Vera Lengsfeld, a former East German dissident, remembers life inside a jail in East Germany.

Vera Lengsfeld was a prominent human rights activist in East Germany who was arrested and jailed for taking part in a peaceful protest. She was sent to Hohenschönhausen, the main political prison of the former East German Communist Ministry of State Security, the Stasi. There she was kept in solitary confinement until shortly before the Berlin Wall came down.  Vera Lengsfeld spoke to Lucy Williamson about her time in jail.

This programme is a rebroadcast.

Photo: A cell inside Hohenschönhausen Prison which has now been made into a museum.  Credit: Flickr Commons.

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