NS documentation centre of the city of cologne

Cologne - This is a museum of the dark past of Germany - the Nazi regime. This museum is Cologne’s National Socialism Documentation Center was founded by a resolution passed by the Cologne city council 1979 and has become the largest regional memorial site in all of Germany for the victims of the Nazis.

signboard to this Nazi museum

Entrance to this NS documentation centre

Grim reality of the Nazi documentation centre

The walls and floors are kept this way to make it look grim and a stark reality of how cruel the Gestapo were. Cologne residents were documented, interrogated, tortured and murdered in this same building.

Photos of the protest

Map of cologne during the beginning of Nazi regime

Nazi symbol in churches

Religion and christianity are frown upon, and if christians do have to worship in churches, symbols of Nazi need to be alongside symbols of christianity. Nazi indoctrinate the Aryan race as the most superior, and murder millions of other races like Jews. Nazi put to death homosexuals, disabled and other non-pure elements of the Aryan race.

One of the small dark cells underground the building

In Germany, the Nazis promoted this false notion that glorified the German people as members of the "Aryan race," while denigrating Jews, Black people, and Gypsies as “non-Aryans.”

Execution courtyard

There are all mirrors surrounding this courtyard, you can feel a sense of eerie-ness in the atmosphere in this place which I don't usually feel. Further walking down the dark chamber gives you a creepy feeling and I quickly walked out.

One more underground to prison cells

Humans must live in peace and the cruelty of humanity must never be forgotten nor repeated.

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