The prison Museum Plattensee is a memorial that was created by order of the Senate of Berlin. Its location was not chosen by chance, a monument stands where it was executed more than 2,000 people during the Third Reich. This Museum is open to tourists, talks about the cruel torture of prisoners, victims of Nazism in the twentieth century.

In Plotzensee executions of convicts began conducting in 1890. Until 1932 convicts, who died in this building, there were 36 people. The execution was carried out by the executioner by ax in the courtyard of the prison. In subsequent years the number of victims has increased rapidly, in the period 1933-1945 gg it reached 2891 people To 1933 in the prison Plotzensee resulted in the execution of the death sentence only for murderers and those who committed serious crimes, but the victims were innocent people. In 1936, Hitler endorsed received from the Minister of justice of Gurtner the suggestion that the killings were carried out not by the axe and the guillotine.

The prison Museum Plotzensee tells the story of the cruel and bloody period of German history when torture and death suffered by the citizens of different countries, among whom were natives of France, Czechoslovakia, Poland. In front of the Museum there is a memorial stele on which one can read the inscription "to the Victims of Hitler's dictatorship, 1933-1945.". In the next room is another Museum where tourists will learn about the Resistance movement. Everything here is dedicated to the executed convicts.

In 2002, a number of expositions of the Museum joined the bench, which was dedicated to two famous writers – the Tatars Abdellah alisha and Musa Jalil, who was executed in 1944 in the prison Plotzensee.