Tour World War II & Nazi Period
Duration: 4 hours with 4 stops
Meeting point: hotel / by agreement
Start: between 9 a.m. and 10 a.m.
End: hotel or downtown
Tour description:
World War II ended in Europe on May 8, 1945. Around 80,000 Red Army soldiers were killed in the “battle of Berlin”. We start our city tour at the Soviet War Memorial in the park area of Tiergarten. Right next door is the Reichstag building, today's seat of the Bundestag (Federal Parliament). The Nazi dictatorship began 1933 in Germany with the fire set in the Reichstag on February 27. There are two other monuments close to the parliament: first one is for the murdered Sinti and Roma (National Socialists considered "gypies" racially inferior) and the other one for the murdered Jews of Europe (Holocaust Memorial). Next stops are at the so-called “Führer Bunker”, the German Resistance Memorial Center and the “Topography of Terror” documentation center. A place of remembrance on the site where until the end of the Second World War the headquarters of the SS, Secret State Police (Gestapo) and the Reich Security Main Office were located. Hermann Göring's Ministry of Aviation and Josef Goebbel's Ministry for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda were only a few blocks further. Our tour ends at Checkpoint Charlie.
Stops:
Soviet War Memorial
Reichstag
Sinti and Roma Memorial
Holocaust Memorial
"Führerbunker"
German Resistance Memorial Center
"Topography of Terror"
"Topography of Terror"
Checkpoint Charlie
