
Beginning in the autumn of 1943, this is where the former chairman of the SPD parliamentary fraction, Rudolf Breitscheid, and his wife Tony were imprisoned, as well as the daughter of the Italian king, Mafalda of Hesse, Princess of Savoy. Rudolf Breitscheid and Princess Mafalda died as a result of the air raid on August 24, 1944, in which the isolation tract was partially destroyed.
In spring of 1945, the SS held in the quickly rebuilt tract over 40 family members of the officers and politicians who took part in the assassination attempt against Hitler on July 20, 1944 in a sweeping detention of members of the Goerdeler, von Stauffenberg, von Hofacker, and von Hammerstein families. With the approach of American forces, the SS took them to Bavaria in April 1945. On May 4, 1945, they were freed in South Tyrol by American troops.
Today, the layout of the barracks has been laid bare. A