Catacombs

Stasi prison July 26, 1985

It feels like eternity.
My wrist starts bleeding.
I can’t feel the pain anymore.

We turn onto platform 16.
There is no train here.
Rushing.

Down the stairs at the end of the platform.
Dark tunnel, connecting all platforms like an underground concourse.
Service vehicles, bunker-like cells and offices, more shuffling and yelling.

More pain.
We rush away up a rusty stairwell.
We must have made more than a kilometer.

*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.