Central Reception Home X-Ray Valley
The Central Reception Home (ZAH for short) was a GDR facility in Röntgen near Berlin , to which immigrants and, above all, resettlers and returnees from the Federal Republic of Germany were admitted for examination.
history
The secret facility was opened by the Ministry of the Interior in April 1979 and remained the last of several reception centers to operate until the spring of 1990. It could accommodate up to 117 people.
At the beginning of the 1980s, the facility had a total of 112 employees who came from the main criminal police department (work group of the People's Police , 51 employees), the internal affairs department (32 employees) and the company security commandos of the Pankow People's Police Inspection (29 employees). There were also 19 full-time employees of the State Security . In the period from 1981 to 1985, 1,100 people were screened at the facility; just over half of the people were turned away. After their settlement in the GDR, the new citizens continued to be controlled by the state security and the people's police.
During their stay at the facility, they were not allowed to leave the fenced-in area. There were routinely multiple interrogations by the State Security and People's Police. The facility received public attention through reports from returnees who stated that their stay was associated with detention-like circumstances and intimidating interrogations. During their stay, they were left in the dark about the future fate of their person and their family and were worn down. Some people would have committed suicide under these circumstances.
The future Minister of the Interior and Social Affairs of the State of Brandenburg Alwin Ziel is one of the contemporary witnesses . Some RAF terrorists who were admitted to the GDR also passed through this facility.
Web links
literature
- Ulrich Stoll: Once freedom and back: the history of returnees from the GDR , Berlin 2009. ISBN 978-3-86153-544-7 .
- Tobias Wunschik: Migration-political hypertrophies: Admission and monitoring of immigrants from the Federal Republic of Germany in the GDR. (PDF; 907 kB) In: IMIS-BEITRÄGE, issue 32/2007, ISSN 0949-4723 . December 2007, accessed May 20, 2009 .
- Off to the home. How the GDR wore down its returnees. In: Märkische Allgemeine. May 20, 2009, archived from the original on May 22, 2009 ; Retrieved May 20, 2009 .
- West-East emigrants (broadcast manuscript). In: exactly. MDR, October 10, 2006, archived from the original on October 30, 2006 ; accessed on September 29, 2016 .
- I'm going over there. (Send manuscript). (RTF; 46 kB) In: SWR2. Südwestrundfunk, June 24, 2008, accessed May 20, 2009 .
- Evidence of the institution's files in the Federal Archives (DO 102). Retrieved May 20, 2009 .
- Rontgental reception center. In: www.bar-blog.de (private blog). November 2007, accessed May 21, 2009 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.das-parlament.de/2009/42_43/PolitischesBuch/27550453/303204
- ↑ Klaus Marxen , Roland Schissau, Gerhard Werle : Strafjustiz und DDR-Inrechtdokumentation: Volume 6, MfS-Strafaten , Verlag Walter de Gruyter, 2006, ISBN 3899493443
Coordinates: 52 ° 39 ′ 9.4 " N , 13 ° 30 ′ 33.1" E