17 inches

Stasi prison July 27, 1985

Lunch was somewhere between the last two jails.
I won’t get fat here.
No contact.

Got a stack of clothes.
A guard takes me to my cell.
I finally meet the guys I will spend my next months with.

25x15ft cell.
4 triple deck beds.
2 tiny tables, 6 three-legged stools.

It seems to be military-organized.
The ‘cell-senior’ shows me my bed.
Clothes and towel are to be folded to exactly 17 inches.

*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.