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* In 1935, the [[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/EL-DE_Haus EL-DE-Haus]] (a [[SecretShop mid-sized office building]] in downtown [[UsefulNotes/TheSixteenLandsOfDeutschland Cologne]]) was rented out to UsefulNotes/TheGestapo, who promptly turned the cellar compartments into a cell block for political prisoners awaiting interrogation, including a [[Room101 dedicated room]] for the ColdBloodedTorture (usually by way of [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown savage beatings using fists, boots, truncheons, and whips]]) and even a [[EnhancedInterrogationTechniques minuscule, pitch-black cell for solitary confinement]]. The gaol was soon running at an estimated ''10,000% capacity'', with up to thirty prisoners stuffed into a space designed for ''two''. It didn't take long for the torture chamber to become an OpenSecret since the building was situated on a ''very'' busy street and the squalid stench and blood-curling screams of the tortured became hard to ignore. The Gestapo ultimately abandoned all pretenses of secrecy when they began hanging and shooting prisoners right in the building's courtyard, in full view of dozens of co-tenants, neighbours, and even people walking down the street. After the war, the torture cellar quickly fell into obscurity after the building was resold and the cellar repurposed as a file storage, despite the fact that there still were ''hundreds'' of [[ApocalypticLog gut-wrenching graffiti messages carved into the walls]]. It took historians and survivors ''decades'' to lobby for the city to turn the place into a museum and a memorial. Remember Amon Göth, the Nazi camp commander played so chillingly by Creator/RalphFiennes in ''Film/SchindlersList''? The real-life Göth was, if anything, ''even worse'' than he was portrayed in the film. One of the ''many'' atrocities Steven Spielberg [[HistoricalVillainDowngrade had to leave out]] was the torture dungeon Göth built and frequently used under his villa at Płaszów concentration camp. And the reason it, along with other of his real-life crimes, were left out of the movie was because Spielberg was afraid that the audience would [[RealityIsUnrealistic think them all too over-the-top to actually have happened]].
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* In 1935, the [[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/EL-DE_Haus EL-DE-Haus]] (a [[SecretShop mid-sized office building]] in downtown [[UsefulNotes/TheSixteenLandsOfDeutschland Cologne]]) was rented out to UsefulNotes/TheGestapo, who promptly turned the cellar compartments into a cell block for political prisoners awaiting interrogation, including a [[Room101 dedicated room]] for the ColdBloodedTorture (usually by way of [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown savage beatings using fists, boots, truncheons, and whips]]) and even a [[EnhancedInterrogationTechniques minuscule, pitch-black cell for solitary confinement]]. The gaol was soon running at an estimated ''10,000% capacity'', with up to thirty prisoners stuffed into a space designed for ''two''. It didn't take long for the torture chamber to become an OpenSecret since the building was situated on a ''very'' busy street and the squalid stench and blood-curling screams of the tortured became hard to ignore. The Gestapo ultimately abandoned all pretenses of secrecy when they began hanging and shooting prisoners right in the building's courtyard, in full view of dozens of co-tenants, neighbours, and even people walking down the street. After the war, the torture cellar quickly fell into obscurity after the building was resold and the cellar repurposed as a file storage, despite the fact that there still were ''hundreds'' of [[ApocalypticLog gut-wrenching graffiti messages carved into the walls]]. It took historians and survivors ''decades'' to lobby for the city to turn the place into a museum and a memorial.
* Remember Amon Göth, the Nazi camp commander played so chillingly by Creator/RalphFiennes in ''Film/SchindlersList''? The real-life Göth was, if anything, ''even worse'' than he was portrayed in the film. One of the ''many'' atrocities Steven Spielberg [[HistoricalVillainDowngrade had to leave out]] was the torture dungeon Göth built and frequently used under his villa at Płaszów concentration camp. And the reason it, along with other of his real-life crimes, were left out of the movie was because Spielberg was afraid that the audience would [[RealityIsUnrealistic think them all too over-the-top to actually have happened]].
* Remember Amon Göth, the Nazi camp commander played so chillingly by Creator/RalphFiennes in ''Film/SchindlersList''? The real-life Göth was, if anything, ''even worse'' than he was portrayed in the film. One of the ''many'' atrocities Steven Spielberg [[HistoricalVillainDowngrade had to leave out]] was the torture dungeon Göth built and frequently used under his villa at Płaszów concentration camp. And the reason it, along with other of his real-life crimes, were left out of the movie was because Spielberg was afraid that the audience would [[RealityIsUnrealistic think them all too over-the-top to actually have happened]].
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* Serial killer and pedophile Lewis Lent Jr. was in the process of installing one under his house when he was arrested. He soon admitted that his intention was to give himself a place to better restrain his underage victims so that he could abuse them whenever he wanted rather than "only" doing it once and then killing them like he had to do previously.
* An [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murders_of_Nathan_O%27Brien,_Kathryn_Liknes_and_Alvin_Liknes infamous triple murder]] in Canada in 2014 was revealed to involve one of these; although they NeverFoundTheBody, it was inferred from the fact that DNA evidence was recovered on multiple implements in the perpetrator's home, including meathooks, a hacksaw, bloodstains on the walls of the perpetrator's shed, and a burn barrel.
* An [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murders_of_Nathan_O%27Brien,_Kathryn_Liknes_and_Alvin_Liknes infamous triple murder]] in Canada in 2014 was revealed to involve one of these; although they NeverFoundTheBody, it was inferred from the fact that DNA evidence was recovered on multiple implements in the perpetrator's home, including meathooks, a hacksaw, bloodstains on the walls of the perpetrator's shed, and a burn barrel.
