1240

Stasi prison July 26, 1985

NAUMBURG! Naumburg?!??

This is 30 minutes away!

By regular train that is.

We are 4.

4 new ones.

‘Greeted’ by an officer.

JVA, JustizVollzugsAnstalt Naumburg 1985.

Rules.

I just lost my name.

We’re supposed to respond with: ‘SG 1240’.

SG stands for ‘Strafgefangener’, prisoner.

Plus ‘my' number.

1240.

When addressing an officer we’re supposed to start the sentence with: ‘SG 1240’.

This is an open prison thank god: locked building, move freely inside.

I have no way of telling how big this place is.

After more rules they let us in.

Will keep my civil clothes for one more night.

It’s too late for whatever the hell they got to do with newbies.

I’m too hungry, too exhausted to understand what it means to be in Naumburg.

Two slices of hard bred with lard and salt.

My first food in almost a week.

 

*Testimony -> Start. This blog entry is part of a linear narrated testimony of the contemporary witness Jens Thieme who was imprisoned 1985-1986 as a political prisoner in various GDR prisons by the GDR Ministry of State Security. Stasi prison, Stasi jail, Stasi detention.