The Soviet Special Camp No. 7/No. 1 in Sachsenhausen

Sjoma Liederwald provides an insight into the history of the Soviet Special Camp No. 7/No. 1, where 60,000 people were imprisoned, 12,000 of whom died. He explains the different groups that were imprisoned there by the Soviet secret service after the occupation of Germany. Liederwald also tells of the liquidation of the camp in 1950, when 4,800 convicts were handed over to the GDR for imprisonment, and more than 700 people who had been imprisoned until then without a verdict were handed over for sentencing in the unlawful "Waldheim Trials", in which some received the death penalty.
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