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Police and Judiciary

Memorial museums also exist at sites of police detention and interrogation, at former offices of the Gestapo and other police groups, and in penitentiaries and prisons. They commemorate the imprisonment of political opponents, the victims of socio-racist exclusion, as well as thousands of resistance members from countries occupied during World War II, a large number of whom were executed.

Many of the prisons were built during the imperial period and later taken over by the Nazi justice system and police. Many continued to be used as detention centres after the liberation from Nazism. For this reason, some of the historical sites are not accessible today, which is why memorial museums could only be established on the fringes of such places of detention. As a result, some historical sites remain inaccessible to this day. Memorial museums have been set up in buildings - some historic, some newly constructed - on the outskirts of such detention sites.

The special significance of the involvement of the police and judiciary in the perpetration of Nazi crimes often becomes evident at the respective sites precisely through comparison with their other periods of use.

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Memorial for the Köpenick Blood Week of June 1933
Puchanstraße 12, 12555 Berlin
Memorial museum
Police and Judiciary
Early Concentration Camps
[Translate to Englisch:] © Gedenkstätte Zellentrakt, Foto: Jürgen Escher
"Zellentrakt" Memorial in the Herford Town Hall
Rathausplatz 1, 32052 Herford
Memorial museum
Police and Judiciary
[Translate to Englisch:] © Stiftung Sächsische Gedenkstätten/Gedenkstätte Bautzen
Bautzen Memorial
Weigangstraße 8A, 02625 Bautzen
Memorial museum
Police and Judiciary
[Translate to Englisch:] Foto: Thorsten Bachner (CC BY-SA 3.0), via Wikimedia Commons
Bittermark Memorial
Theodor-Freywald-Weg, 44229 Dortmund
Memorial | Monument
Police and Judiciary
Brandenburg-Görden Prison Memorial
Anton-Saefkow-Allee 38, 14772 Brandenburg an der Havel
Police and Judiciary
[Translate to Englisch:] © LVR-Archivberatungs- und Fortbildungszentrum, Patrick Führer
Brauweiler Memorial
Ehrenfriedstraße 19, 50259 Pulheim
Memorial museum
Police and Judiciary
[Translate to Englisch:] © Staatsarchiv Bremen
Documentation Center for the Ostertorwache Prison
Am Wall 209, 28195 Bremen
Documentation site
Police and Judiciary
[Translate to Englisch:] © Landesamt für Kultur und Denkmalpflege Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
Documentation Center of the Country for the victims of the Dictatorships in Germany
Obotritenring 106, 19053 Schwerin
Documentation site
Police and Judiciary
[Translate to Englisch:] © Friedenszentrum Anklam
Former Wehrmacht-Prison - Foundation Center for Peace Work
Friedländer Straße 3, 17389 Anklam
Documentation site
Police and Judiciary
[Translate to Englisch:] © KZ-Gedenkstätte Neuengamme (ÖA)
Fuhlsbüttel Concentration Camp and Prisons Memorial
Suhrenkamp 98, 22335 Hamburg
Memorial museum
Police and Judiciary
Early Concentration Camps
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