– The Abyss Advent Calendar opens doors every day that would otherwise remain closed. This time we're going to the historic cell prison in Nuremberg. Göring, Hess and von Papen waited here to be executed.
Empty corridors, broken windows and fragile walls – the ravages of time are gnawing at the historic cell prison on the grounds of the Nuremberg JVA. It's a shame, as Frank Edelmann thinks. The spokesman for the prison opens the old building for us and tells us about its dark past.
For our Advent calendar of the true crime podcast “Abysses,” we look behind an otherwise closed door at the police and justice system every day in 24 episodes. In the current episode we entered the old cell prison. The building became famous through the Nuremberg Trials.
Hitler's supporters sat in these cells between 1945 and 1949. They were charged with, among other things, crimes against peace and humanity. Most of them were put on trial and many were executed.
Due to its historical significance, the cell prison should become a world cultural heritage site together with the Memorium Nuremberg Trials. However, the proposal was rejected this year because part of the building had been missing since the 1980s, when the correctional facility was expanded and expanded.
Frank Edelmann tells us in the 17th episode of our Abyss Advent calendar how the prisoners in the cell prison were doing at the time and why not all war criminals were tried.
