Imprisoned under the Swastika. Bautzen I and Bautzen II 1933-1945
The portrayal of the penal system in the Combined Penitentiaries, i.e., Bautzen I and Bautzen II, is intended to illustrate the essential aspects of the National Socialist penal system. Bautzen was among the Germany's five largest prisons and until 1939 had its own juvenile facility. This then changed radically in response to the National Socialists' nationalist and racist policies. In the final phases of the war the prison maintained several satellite labour camps.
