Centre d'Histoire de la Résistance et de la Déportation
Former military school turned Gestapo torture site, now a museum of resistance and deportation.
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This guide to Lyon's Centre d'Histoire de la Résistance et de la Déportation opens inside the building that became the Gestapo's Lyon headquarters after German forces seized this former military health school in March 1943, run by a young lieutenant later remembered as the Butcher of Lyon. You'll hear how prisoners were held at Montluc, brought down into windowless cellars here, and marched upstairs for interrogation, among them a resistance leader believed to have passed through these rooms. It follows the building through Allied bombing in 1944 and the years of silence that came after.
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