Berlin Trip Overview
This a great tour to book whether you have a solid educational background in the Third Reich and the Second World war or just a curious interest. Your guide has had a life-long passion for the Second World War and we can / will literally cover everything related to the rise of the Nazi’s, looking at the period between 1918-1933. The establishment of the dictatorship and the road to war and genocide between 1933-1939.
There will be an emphasis as well on the military aspects of the Second World War in Berlin. The impact, ebbs and flows of the strategic bombing raids on the city throughout the war and the final onslaught of the Soviets, the Battle of Berlin. With the near complete destruction and also the political removal of buildings post-war some sites are now merely “ghost sites” but we will endeavor to discover as many tangible, physical things as possible. As well as shattering some common myths and misconceptions along the way!
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Duration: 3 to 4 hours
Starts: Berlin, Germany
Trip Category: Cultural & Theme Tours >> Historical & Heritage Tours
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What to Expect When Visiting Berlin, Berlin, Germany
This a great tour to book whether you have a solid educational background in the Third Reich and the Second World war or just a curious interest. Your guide has had a life-long passion for the Second World War and we can / will literally cover everything related to the rise of the Nazi’s, looking at the period between 1918-1933. The establishment of the dictatorship and the road to war and genocide between 1933-1939.
There will be an emphasis as well on the military aspects of the Second World War in Berlin. The impact, ebbs and flows of the strategic bombing raids on the city throughout the war and the final onslaught of the Soviets, the Battle of Berlin. With the near complete destruction and also the political removal of buildings post-war some sites are now merely “ghost sites” but we will endeavor to discover as many tangible, physical things as possible. As well as shattering some common myths and misconceptions along the way!
Itinerary
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Stop At: Mitte, Berlin Germany
Focusing on the rise and fall of Nazi Berlin, this tour visits the key sites from the darkest chapter of Berlin’s history.
We will discuss how the Nazi seized power and established their brutal dictatorship (visiting the key sites realted to that) and look at how their instruments of terror and suppression (Gestapo and SS) functioned. There will be ample opputunity to learn about Berlin during the war itself and to look at the piecemeal destruction of the Capital of the Third Reich from air and land as the tide of war turned against the Nazi’s.
This tour walks through the Government district (Wilhelmstrasse), the nerve centre of the Third Reich. Visiting the former Reich Main Security Office, Headquaters of the SS and Gestapo, the former Luftwaffe HQ, The New Reichs Chancellery and Hitler’s bunker. Whilst the latter is now a “ghost site” we will visit the imposing bunker on Reinhardtstrasse, as well as over-looked sites related to the Battle of Berlin. We will discuss in some depth the Soviet assault on the city at the end of the Second World War and see the many scars that the city still bears. We will also visit several incredible memorials to the victims and victors of the Second World War.
List of site visited:
Brandenburg Gate
Reichstag
Air-raid shelter on Reinhhardt Strasse
Moltkebrücke
Site of the Kroll Opera House
Soviet War Memorial
Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe
Site of the Fuhrer Bunker and New Reich’s Chancellery
Former Luftwaffe HQ
Former Gestapo and SS HQ
Duration: 3 hours
Stop At: Brandenburg Gate, Pariser Platz, 10117 Berlin Germany
See the iconic Brandenburg Gate whilst learning the about Germany before at and at the end of the Fist World War and the background to the rise of the Nazis.
Duration: 15 minutes
Stop At: Reichstag Building, Platz der Republik 1, 10557 Berlin Germany
Visit one of the most iconic buildings in Germany and discuss it’s significance with regard to the establishment of the Nazi Dictatorship as well a recounting the bloody battle fought by the Soviets to take the building
Duration: 15 minutes
Stop At: Soviet Memorial Tiergarten, Strasse des 17. Juni, 10623 Berlin Germany
Visit the imposing Soviet War Memorial in the Tiergarten, the only Soviet Memorial in former West Berlin as we talk about the War in the East and the Battle of Berlin. We will also discuss the Allied bombing campaigns over Germany and Berlin.
Duration: 20 minutes
Stop At: The Holocaust Memorial – Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, Cora-Berliner-Strasse 1, 10117 Berlin Germany
Visit and experience the largest and most significant of the many, many memorials in Berlin
Duration: 20 minutes
Stop At: Bundesministerium der Finanzen, Wilhelmstrasse 97 Detlev-Rohwedder-Haus, 10117 Berlin Germany
Now the Finance Ministry but originally the HQ for the Luftwaffe. learn about its history and an overview of the Nazi architecture.
Duration: 10 minutes
Stop At: Topography of Terror, Niederkirchnerstrasse 8, 10963 Berlin Germany
Enter one of the most horrific of all the sites within Nazi Berlin…the site of the SS and Gestapo HQ. Learn how these organizations functioned, what they done on the site and how the site has been memorialized over time.
Duration: 15 minutes
Stop At: Hitler’s Bunker, Gertrud-Kolmar-Str. 14, 10117 Berlin Germany
Learn not only what was below ground but also above ground at what is now one of the world’s most infamous car park/Parking lots. Also learn what were the key events in the run up to Hitler taking his life in late-April 1945.
Duration: 15 minutes
