App for exhibition at the Villa ten Hompel and the pitfalls of Munster

The "Villa ten Hompel" app provides information on the permanent exhibition, places of remembrance and works of art, as well as stumbling blocks that were laid in memory of those persecuted and murdered by the Nazi regime.

While the information on the permanent exhibition can only be found in the historical site of Villa ten Hompel at Kaiser Wilhelm Ring 28 in Münster, information on the stumbling blocks and the outstations are also accessible outside the villa.

The app offers orientation in a dark chapter of German history. It not only provides access to extensive background information on the various exhibits, locations and thematic tours, but also enables interactive handling of what is presented and, in the biographs of the stumbling blocks, offers a rich insight into the lives of people persecuted under Nazi rule.

In the former industrial villa of Rudolf ten Hompel in Münster, the uniformed police force was located during the Nazi era. After the Second World War, an administrative authority decided here on the denazification of Nazi perpetrators and another authority on claims for reparations from those persecuted by Nazi Germany. The villa is a special place in contemporary history, because the violence that was exercised by the people behind the desks can be traced here as well as the sometimes clumsy and unsatisfactory bureaucratic processing of Nazi injustice.