Berlin Trip Overview
Berlin was the dark heart of Nazi Germany – the capital city of a dictatorship that was responsible for waging a war that destroyed swathes of the European continent and industrially murdering millions.
Why did the Germans think they needed Adolf Hitler in 1933? How could a civilised people fall so deep into the moral abyss? Why were Jewish and other minority groups, both in Germany and across Europe, ruthlessly targeted? What is the legacy of Nazism in Germany today?
This tour answers such questions, giving crucial context regarding the rise of Adolf Hitler in pre-Nazi Germany, providing a comprehensive overview of the National Socialist capital, and telling the dramatic tale of the Battle of Berlin and the collapse of the regime in 1945.
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Duration: 4 hours
Starts: Berlin, Germany
Trip Category: Cultural & Theme Tours >> Cultural Tours
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What to Expect When Visiting Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Berlin was the dark heart of Nazi Germany – the capital city of a dictatorship that was responsible for waging a war that destroyed swathes of the European continent and industrially murdering millions.
Why did the Germans think they needed Adolf Hitler in 1933? How could a civilised people fall so deep into the moral abyss? Why were Jewish and other minority groups, both in Germany and across Europe, ruthlessly targeted? What is the legacy of Nazism in Germany today?
This tour answers such questions, giving crucial context regarding the rise of Adolf Hitler in pre-Nazi Germany, providing a comprehensive overview of the National Socialist capital, and telling the dramatic tale of the Battle of Berlin and the collapse of the regime in 1945.
Itinerary
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Stop At: Reichstag Building, Platz der Republik 1, 10557 Berlin Germany
Visit the German parliament, burned down shortly after Hitler’s rise to power, and see where the Soviet flag fluttered over the ruins of Berlin at the end of WWII.
Duration: 15 minutes
Stop At: The Holocaust Memorial – Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, Cora-Berliner-Strasse 1, 10117 Berlin Germany
Journey through the field of concrete stellae, bear witness the atrocities of Nazism, and hear the stories of the everyday bravery of the persecuted.
Duration: 15 minutes
Stop At: Hitler’s Bunker, Gertrud-Kolmar-Str. 14, 10117 Berlin Germany
Stand where history’s most notorious criminal committed suicide, having brought a continent to ruin, at the end of WWII.
Duration: 10 minutes
Stop At: Topography of Terror, Niederkirchnerstrasse 8, 10963 Berlin Germany
Witness the dark heart of Nazi Germany at the former headquarters of the SS and Gestapo. See the excavated torture cells, and one of the last remaining pieces of Nazi architecture in the city centre: the former Reich Aviation Ministry.
Duration: 15 minutes
Stop At: Memorial to the Sinti and Roma Victims of National Socialism, Simsonweg/Scheidemannstrasse Between Brandenburg Gate and the Reichstag Building, 10117 Berlin Germany
Visit the central point of commemoration in Germany for those persecuted under Nazism as ‘gypsies’, and learn about other groups who were ruthlessly targeted by the regime.
Duration: 10 minutes
Stop At: Soviet Memorial Tiergarten, Strasse des 17. Juni, 10623 Berlin Germany
Pay tribute to some 2,000 Soviet soldiers who died during the Battle of Berlin, and get up close and personal with the first two T34 tanks that entered Berlin at the end of the Second World War.
Duration: 10 minutes
Stop At: Stiftung Neue Synagoge Berlin – Centrum Judaicum, Oranienburger Str. 28 – 30, 10117 Berlin Germany
Delve into Berlin’s former Jewish Quarter and to see the ornate golden domes of the New Synagogue, a target during the November 1938 pogroms, the Stolpersteine, personal tributes to victims of Nazism, the Auschwitz trees and the old Jewish graveyard.
Duration: 45 minutes
Stop At: Museum Blindenwerkstatt Otto Weidt, Rosenthaler Str. 39, 10178 Berlin Germany
Hear the story of Otto Weidt, the brush-maker who put his life on the line to shelter his Jewish workers from deportation at the hands of the SS and Gestapo.
Duration: 10 minutes
Stop At: Museum Island, Museum Island, Berlin
See where huge propaganda events were staged in the heart of Berlin, and also where Hitler addressed crowds of fanatic followers hundreds of thousands strong.
Duration: 10 minutes
Stop At: Johann Georg Elser Sculpture, Wilhelmstrasse/An der Kollanade, Berlin Germany
Here the story of Georg Elser: the man who tried to assassinate Adolf Hitler by blowing up a beer hall in Munich in 1939.
Duration: 10 minutes
