The prison, together with the Royal Saxonian State Court building (which now houses the Amtsgericht Leipzig [de]) were completed in 1906.

[3][5] The executions were secret and hidden from both the people living nearby and from the inmates of the prison.

[4] They were given falsified death certificates, cremated and interred anonymously at Leipzig Südfriedhof cemetery.

[7] Since 2008, a memorial plaque (commissioned by the Leipzig city council and designed by Gerd Nawroth) at the Arndstraße entrance commemorates the execution site.

Roland Puhr – Nazi war criminal who murdered dozens of prisoners at Sachsenhausen concentration camp.

Horst Fischer – Nazi war criminal who murdered at least 75,000 people by participating in their selections at Auschwitz concentration camp.

Josef Blösche – Nazi war criminal and Einsatzkommando who participated in at least 2000 murders and at least 300,000 deportations.

[12] Erwin Hagedorn – Serial killer who murdered three young boys; executed in 1972.

Paul Hermann Feustel – Nazi war criminal who had 42 Czech civilians executed and 2460 sent to concentration camps after Reinhard Heydrich was fatally wounded during an assassination attempt.