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Gedenkstätte Plötzensee review Rate it
This memorial stands on the site where the Nazis executed over 2,500 (largely political) prisoners. In a single night in 1943, 186 people were hanged. In 1952, it was declared a memorial to the victims of fascism and a commemorative wall was built. There is little to see, apart from the execution area with its meat hooks from which victims were hanged, and a small room with an exhibition. The stone urn near the entrance is filled with earth from concentration camps.
Gedenkstätte Plötzensee details
Charlottenburg
Area West
Transport U9 Beusselstrasse, then bus 123
Telephone 030 344 3226
Open Mar-Oct 9am-5pm daily. Nov-Feb 9am-4pm daily
Admission free
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