The plain building right behind Dortmund’s central train station hides many secrets. Established as a police station, it was turned into a Gestapo prison during the Nazi rule. Now the building is a memorial museum on resistance and persecution. The police headquarters opened in 1906, and since it was located on Steinstraße, the locals soon started calling the building Steinwache (stone guard). In the 1920s, the police added a five-story prison building next to the initial headquarters. After the Nazis came to power in the 1930s, the Gestapo (the Nazi…
