Nazi Documentation Center Cologne

You can revisit one of the grimmest periods from Cologne’s past at the former HQ of the Gestapo secret police.

Despite the role it filled from 1935 the EL-DE Haus escaped real damage in the Second World War, making it an interesting if harrowing document of the Nazi period.

The permanent exhibition has more than 30 high-tech multimedia stations giving an account of Cologne under national socialism.