Our services for researchers

The NS-Documentation Centre preserves extensive source and literature material about the history of National Socialism with a collection that focusses on Cologne. If you are researching your family history, the history of your street, your neighbourhood or specific issues, institutions or people from the NS era in Cologne and would like to find out if specific documents, photos or other sources are available in the NS-Documentation Centre, please contact us.

Library

In our library, you will find literature covering the National Socialism, didactics, memorials, remembrance culture and right-wing extremism issues.

Archive & Documentation

Here we can tell you about the various testimonies that the NS-Documentation Centre collects, develops and stores about the history of Cologne under National Socialism.

Databases

These databases are available free-of-charge for your research: memorial book of Jewish victims, stumbling stones in Cologne, forced labour camps, war graves.