After the Cathedral, we walked along the main shopping district and Karsten bought a bikini for me. Why a bikini in that crazy weather, you ask. Well, the next stop would be Frankfurt: first to visit Karsten's cousin Gerfrid and then stay at Thomas' place (Karsten's colleague) who has an indoor pool and a sauna! That was what we needed a bikini for!
We left Köln on Easter Sunday after visiting a museum that use to be the headquarters of the SS but I'll have to have Karsten correct me on this, my memory is a bit weak.
Oh and that was Danie's first Easter so Karsten bought her a big chocolate bunny that was really cute with a medallion and all that. It distracted Danie for a while but we never really got around eating it since 2 days later, she puked all over it! I think you can see glimpses of the bunny in some of the pictures.
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The museum was the "EL-DE Haus/NS-Documentation Centre":
The Cologne trader Leopold Dahmen had this two-storey house erected in 1935 on the corner of Appellhofstraße and Elisenstraße, which takes its name from his initials.
In the same year the secret police (Gestapo) took over sole occupation of the house and set up their office here for the government district of Cologne. From this time onwards the name of the EL-DE house was a synonym for torture and execution. The Gestapo set up 10 prison cells in the cellar. The inscriptions on the walls still show today the terrible suffering that was inflicted here on political dissidents and many Jewish citizens. The Nazi documentation centre and the permanent exhibition "Cologne in the Nazi era” have been housed here since June 1996; the cellar with the former cells has been turned into a memorial.
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