Often, a critical word, a "suspicious" resume, or a neighbor's denunciation was enough: time and again, individuals deemed undesirable were swiftly arrested and imprisoned without due process, first in the Soviet occupation zone and later in the GDR. The Berlin-Hohenschönhausen prison was the central Stasi investigation prison of the GDR. In this book, numerous prisoners describe the degrading conditions of detention, the exhausting interrogations, and the psychological pressure to which they were subjected as inmates.