During the Second World War, the Cologne Trade Fair was one of the main sites of persecution in Cologne. A sub-camp of Buchenwald concentration camp, camps for forced labourers and prisoners of war and a Gestapo barracks camp were located on the site directly on the Rhine. The prisoners suffered the most severe torments and risked their lives during bomb clearances and body recoveries after air raids. The site also served as a collection camp for Sinti and Romanies as well as for people persecuted as Jews. From the nearby Deutz-tief railway station, deportations to the ghettos, concentration camps and extermination camps were carried out. On this city walk, you will learn about the history of the building complex and its use as a camp, and you will find out more about the prison and working conditions as well as individual life stories.

Duration
1.5 h

Start
Meet you at Köln Messe/Deutz Bf stop, Charles-de-Gaulle-Platz 1, exit Auenweg

Costs
45 € for pupils
75 € for students / youth groups (plus admission)
112,50 € for adults (plus admission)
All of our educational tours are free of charge for schools based in Cologne.

Please note
This city walk is taking place exclusively on site in Cologne-Deutz and the EL-DE-Haus will not be visited.

Languages
We offer this guided city walk in either German or English. Please note that there are additional costs for foreign language city walks as well as city walks on public holidays and weekends (€ 15 per guided city walk).

Please register your school class here.

Book a private group city walk here.

Get to know the history and stories, biographies and fates from the former working-class district of Ehrenfeld during the 1930s and 1940s. During the city walk of the neighbourhood you will meet David Kuflik, a Jewish old clothes dealer, the Hitler-Youth boy Stefan Pick, Heinz Grünebaum, son of the cantor at the Ehrenfeld synagogue as well as the non-conformist youngsters around Barthel Schink.

We follow the traces of the past on the historical sites. Contemporary photographs and documents illustrate the descriptions.

Afterwards follow their life stories and topics to the EL-DE building to learn more about the city's history and the background to the persecutions and crimes in the permanent exhibition and the memorial.

Duration
2.5 hours

Start
Meet you at Venloer Str./Gürtel stop (line 3, 4 and 13) in front of "McDonald’s"

Costs
€ 75 for pupils
€ 125 for students / youth groups (plus admission)
€ 187.50 for adults (plus admission) 

All of our educational tours are free of charge for schools based in Cologne.

Please note
This guided city walk is suitable for all groups from year 8 upwards, even if they do not yet have extensive knowledge of the NS era. Please note that the maximum group size is 15 people.

Please purchase your ticket for Cologne public transport (KVB) to go from Ehrenfeld station to the NS-Documentation Centre at Appellhofplatz after the first part of the city walk.

Languages
We offer this guided city walk in either German or English. Please note that there are additional costs for foreign language city walks as well as city walks on public holidays and weekends (€ 15 per guided city walk).

Please register your school class here.

Book a private group city walk here.

Guided city walk about the Navajos, Edelweiss pirates and non-conformist teenagers in Cologne

Follow the history and stories of non-conformist teenagers in the southern part of Cologne. Get to know the Volksgarten, one of their main inner-city meeting places during the 1930s and 1940s.

Learn more about the biographies and everyday life of the youngsters on-site, their songs and outfits, their behaviour and other destinations where the various groups met - as well as their conflicts with the Hitler Youth and their persecution by the police and the Gestapo.

Via the Rosengarten and Eifelplatz – the site of a major raid by the Gestapo at the end of 1942 – participants can follow in the footsteps of the youngsters back to the NS-Documentation Centre in the EL-DE building, where they can learn more about their fate in the former Gestapo prison.

Duration
2.5 hours

Start
Meet your guide on Chlodwigplatz by the Severinstorburg

Costs
€75 for pupils
€125 for students / youth groups (plus admission)
€ 187.50 for adults (plus admission) 

All of our educational tours are free of charge for schools based in Cologne.

Please note
This city walk is recommended for groups  from year 9 upwards who have already studied the NS era and have a basic knowledge of NS ideology. Please note that the maximum group size is 15 people.

Please purchase your ticket for Cologne public transport (KVB) to go from Eifelstraße stop to the EL-DE building in Appellhofplatz after city walk.

Languages
We offer this city walk in either German or English. Please note that there are additional costs for foreign language city walks as well as city walks on public holidays and weekends (€ 15 per guided city walk).

Register your school class here.

Book a private group city walk here.