Plötzensee prison is a memorial, which was created by order of the Berlin Senate. Its location was not chosen by chance, a monument stands exactly where it was executed more than 2000 people during the Third Reich. This museum is open to tourists, talks about the cruel torture of prisoners subjected to Nazism in the XX century.

In Plёttsenzee penalty convicts have begun since 1890. Until 1932 convicted by dying in the walls of this building, there were 36 people. Executions carried out by the executioner ax in the courtyard of the prison. In subsequent years, the number of victims is growing rapidly in the period of 1933-1945, it reached 2891 people. Until 1933, the walls Ploetzensee resulted in a death sentence for the killers and those who have committed serious crimes, but later became victims of innocent people. In 1936, Hitler approved received from the Minister of Justice Gurtner suggestion that the penalty is not carried out by the ax, and the guillotine.

Plötzensee prison tells about the cruel and bloody period in German history when subjected to torture and death of citizens of different countries, among whom were natives of France, Czechoslovakia, Poland. In front of the museum is a memorial stele, on which you can read the inscription "To the Victims of Hitler's dictatorship of 1933-1945.". In the next room is another museum where visitors talk about the resistance movement. Everything here is dedicated to the executed prisoners.

In 2002, the number of presented expositions of the museum joins stand, which was dedicated to two famous writers - Tatars Abdellah Alicia and Musa Jalil, executed in 1944 in the walls Ploetzensee.