Overview

• On Sunday a man dressed in East German NVA uniform drove a Trabant bearing DDR-Grenztruppen insignia onto the courtyard of the Berlin-Hohenschönhausen Stasi memorial, declaring the former prison would soon reopen.
• Memorial staff informed him that displaying DDR symbols violated site rules and requested he leave the premises.
• The man only departed after employees alerted police, and he drove off on red license plates reserved for transfer and test drives.
• Director Helge Heidemeyer condemned the stunt as glorifying the SED dictatorship and disrespecting victims of the communist regime.
• Gedenkstätte Berlin-Hohenschönhausen has formally filed a police complaint as authorities investigate potential legal consequences.