Station 7

Here, between the rear side of the maintenance building and the bunker (prison wing), you find a courtyard. This was a site for inflicting punishment and carrying out executions including the shooting deaths of many Soviet officers.

Enter the camp prison, or bunker. This structure was built during the new construction of the camp in 1937-38 and replaced earlier prison buildings. It was used above all to punish prisoners and to extort confessions.

Also imprisoned here in the last few years of the war were some of the so-called special prisoners who, as hostages, were provided with better conditions. In February 1945, Georg Elser, who had attempted to assassinate Hitler, became one of these special prisoners; the SS murdered him shortly before liberation.

Today, first-hand accounts from bunker prisoners are to be found in the individual cells, including audio and visual terminals with biographical information on some of the prisoners that were detained here.