Koeln Tour IV- Zuerst

It looks as if I haven't posted in a long time. Time to fill everybody in.

In the fourth and final tour of Koeln, we covered the dark era of Koeln's history. We visited a former prison/torture dungeon of the Nazis during World War II. It was disturbing the number of people and the conditions in which countless people were incarcerated. There were many inscriptions/drawing on the walls. Many of them said (in various languages, from French to Russian) something along the lines of, "I don't know why I'm here. Been here a week, 27 people in cell." One person, imprisoned for a long time, counted the number of people who walked to the gallows and how many returned. In this way, it was estimated that somewhere between 500-1000 people were hanged. This was not a very big jail, only a handful of cells in a basement.