Hello friends and family. So, I neglected to write last week, mostly because of a combination of being busy and being tired. I actually am still pretty tired, so I'm going to try to make this a little more succinct, instead of my usual long-winded, rambling mess. So, last week we went to a former Stasi Prison. The Stasi were the East German secret police and, like all secret police of repressive totalitarian regimes, they needed some sort of secret compound where they could bring enemies of the state to torture them into not being enemies of the state. It actually started out as a Soviet prison where the Red Army pretty much locked up anyone who was happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time in the few years after the war.
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