Arkivet (Kristiansand)

The building in the functionalist style was completed in 1935, and was 8 March of that year officially adopted by the local department of the National Archives.

[1] The SS-Hauptsturmführer and Kriminalkommisar Rudolf Kerner was in charge of the building at Vesterveien 4, from then on known as Arkivet, one of the most notorious Gestapo stations in Norway, feared by the Norwegian resistance fighters.

[2] According to figures from Stiftelsen Arkivet were From the "House of horror" as Arkivet was nicknamed, Kerner himself and five other Gestapo officers in addition to Norwegian collaborationists including Ole Wehus were prosecuted and harshly judged during the Legal purge in Norway after World War II.

The basement, where there is a museum furnished, is brought back to the condition it was in the period 1942–1945, with reconstructions of cells, torture chambers and equipment.

The names of 162 Norwegian victims who were killed in concentration camps or executed, are mounted on a monument in front of the building.