Kreismuseum Wewelsburg
Burgwall 19
D-33142 Büren-Wewelsburg
Tel.: 0049-(0) 2955/ 7622-0
Fax: 0049-(0) 2955/ 7622-22
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Permanent Exhibition
Characteristics
Wewelsburg castle is a very special place for a museum dealing with german history between 1933 and 1945: Through the planned construction of an ideological centre for the SS, it´s a place of the perpetrators, while the establishment of a concentration camp makes it a place of the victims... read more
Virtual Tour
The
exhibition “Ideology and Terror of the SS” is opened by two segements, located
in the former gymnasium and fencing hall of the SS, with an overview of 1941,
what is considered the key year of Wewelsburg’s Nazi occupation. Included is
also a chronological overview of the general progression of the SS... read more
Origin
In 1982 the
historical exhibition was opened under the name „Wewelsburg 1933-1945: Cult
and Terror site of the SS” in the former guard house; it handled exclusively
with local layout of the history of Wewelsburg and the local concentration
camp. This narrow view needed expanding... read more
