NS-Dokumentationszentrum der Stadt Köln

Museum in Altstadt-Nord, Germany

The NS Documentation Centre of the City of Cologne(German: NS-Dokumentationszentrum der Stadt Köln) was founded by a resolution passed by the Cologne city council on December 13, 1979, and has become the largest regional memorial site in all of Germany for the victims of the Nazis. Since 1988, it has been housed in "EL-DE Haus," the EL-DE building, named for the initials of its owner, Catholic businessman Leopold Dahmen. This building was the headquarters of the Cologne Gestapo (secret police) between December 1935 and March 1945. In the final months of the war, several hundred people, most of

From NS Documentation Centre of the City of Cologne on Wikipedia, CC BY-SA.

Where:
Altstadt-Nord, Germany

Coordinates:
50.94°N, 6.95°E

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