Szucha Gestapo prison

Szucha, former Gestapo prison, Warsaw - darkometer rating : 7 - The cellar of a building that during Nazi Germany 's occupation of Poland in World War II was used by the Gestapo as a remand prison. A few of the cells have been preserved and together with some information material form another one of the city of Warsaw 's rather grim museums (see also Pawiak ). > More background info > What there is to see > Location > Access and costs > Time required > Combinations with other dark destinations > Combinations with non-dark destinations > Photos More background info: The Nazis' secret police, the Gestapo, was rightly feared. Their ingeniously sinister interrogation techniques and overall brutality are infamous. In Warsaw, the Gestapo primarily occupied a building as their HQ in the south of the city, namely on the street called al. Szucha, which was also the designation used for the prison itself. In the cellar they had a series of prison cells. And these were put to extensive use, mainly to hold members of the Polish resistance or other such suspects and "undesirables", where they would also be subjected to all manner of torturous interrogations. Little wonder then that many did not survive detention at Szucha. Today the building is part of a complex of guarded government buildings, but the cellar housing the museum is freely accessible to the public. Officially the place carries the name of "mauzoleum walki i meczenstwa", i.e. it is considered a "mausoleum of struggle and martyrdom'. This is a common descriptive phrase for such places in Poland . But it really is a just museum; nobody is buried here. What there is to see: Not all that much, but what is there is rather grim. As you enter the building you go down the wide steps into the cellar, from where two narrow corridors branch off.