History Tour of Berlin: Cold War and Third Reich – private tour in a minivan

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Enjoy a comprehensive sightseeing tour along all the main sights in former West and East Berlin with an emphasis on Berlin’s history, particularly on the Third Reich and Cold War.

Perfect for everybody who wants to get a first overview of the city and to get an insight into German history.

With your local tour guide and a minivan with driver we head towards the highlights, such as the great boulevards Kurfürstendamm and Unter den Linden, the Brandenburg Gate and the Reichstag building, seat of the German parliament.

Learn about the sites of the Third Reich and visit the Holocaust Memorial. Discover how the division of the city was a consequence of WWII and how the Cold War affected the Germans. Of course we will also visit Checkpoint Charlie and the last remaining pieces of the Berlin Wall and site of Hitler’s death.

The tour includes stops and short walks such as at the Brandenburg Gate and at Checkpoint Charlie.

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Duration: 3 hours
Starts: Berlin, Germany
Trip Category: Cultural & Theme Tours >> Historical & Heritage Tours



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Enjoy a comprehensive sightseeing tour along all the main sights in former West and East Berlin with an emphasis on Berlin’s history, particularly on the Third Reich and Cold War.

Perfect for everybody who wants to get a first overview of the city and to get an insight into German history.

With your local tour guide and a minivan with driver we head towards the highlights, such as the great boulevards Kurfürstendamm and Unter den Linden, the Brandenburg Gate and the Reichstag building, seat of the German parliament.

Learn about the sites of the Third Reich and visit the Holocaust Memorial. Discover how the division of the city was a consequence of WWII and how the Cold War affected the Germans. Of course we will also visit Checkpoint Charlie and the last remaining pieces of the Berlin Wall and site of Hitler’s death.

The tour includes stops and short walks such as at the Brandenburg Gate and at Checkpoint Charlie.

Itinerary
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Stop At: Brandenburg Gate, Pariser Platz, 10117 Berlin Germany

The Brandenburg Gate is a historical city gate and became later the symbol of the once divided and reunited Germany.

Duration: 20 minutes

Stop At: Checkpoint Charlie, Friedrichstr. 43-45, 10969 Berlin Germany

Former checkpoint between the allied and Soviet sector when the city was divided by the Wall.

Duration: 20 minutes

Stop At: Memorial of the Berlin Wall, Bernauer Strasse 111, 13355 Berlin Germany

Open-air documentation of the Berlin Wall. We will walk on the site of the former death strip where people grabbed tunnels to flee to the West.

Duration: 20 minutes

Pass By: Topography of Terror, Niederkirchnerstrasse 8, 10963 Berlin Germany

We will see the site where the once the headquarter of the Nazi terror regime used to be. Today there is an exhibition you will visit.

Stop At: The Holocaust Memorial – Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, Cora-Berliner-Strasse 1, 10117 Berlin Germany

This huge and impressive memorial is dedicated to the Jews that have been murdered under the Nazis. We will walk through this memorial with you.

Duration: 20 minutes



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