NS Documentation Center
In the historic EL-DE House, Cologne's former Gestapo headquarters. A cellar prison with inscriptions left by the prisoners.
The NS Documentation Center occupies the EL-DE House, the former Gestapo headquarters for Cologne and the surrounding area. In the cellar, the ten prison cells with more than 1,800 inscriptions by former prisoners are preserved and accessible. The permanent exhibition documents National Socialist Cologne from 1933 to 1945.
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