Now the penitentiaries were readied for us. First, some of us went to the penitentiary in Untermassfeld. A few found themselves in the former military penitentiary at Torgau. The girls were brought to the women's penitentiary in Hoheneck. Because of the different conditions in every single penitentiary, one can only look at the specific conditions of each.
Generalization is difficult.
Everybody was hoping for it, but nobody really believed it. Until now, many tears had been shed on our horrifying journey, but now the great joy of having survived prevailed. For some of us, the time of imprisonment, the time of deprivation and fear, had not yet come to an end. Without any explanation, Klaus Adlung and Gunther Mielke were held until 1954. 13 of our youngsters from Wittenberge, more than half of those arrested, were innocent yet were executed in Brandenburg or died of starvation and tuberculosis in Sachsenhausen.