Augustusburg Castle on a mountain cone not far from Chemnitz was a facility deemed suitable by the GDR state leadership as an isolation or internment camp in the event of a crisis. Up to 6,000 opposition citizens and foreigners from "enemy states" were to be housed there. From Thursday, an exhibition entitled "Geheime Verschlusssache" (Secretly Classified) will now provide an insight into the secret plans and preparations of the State Security, which never came to fruition - the Peaceful Revolution of 1989 intervened before they could strike.
This will make another part of the history of this memorial accessible and visible, said castle director Patricia Meyn in advance. Following a series of events on the years 1933 to 1945, "the focus is now on the GDR with previously unknown findings". According to the exhibition, the Stasi prepared for "Day X" "with bureaucratic precision".
