Berlin Nazi History and Jewish Heritage Tour

With this guided tour you will discover how Hitler's rise to power in 1933 was possible and all the secrets of the tragic relationship between Berlin's Christians and the Jewish world. Retrace the places of Nazi terror, discover the Jewish Quarter with the Tolerance Road and the New Synagogue, the Museum of German Resitance and the ruins of the Anhalter Bahnhof station. With this tour you will understand how Hitler came to power and consolidated the birth of modern anti-Semitism and how Germany lives with this chapter of its history.

Meeting Point

Potsdamer Platz 10

Potsdamer Platz 10, 10785 Berlin, Germany

We meet 20 minutes before the tour starts. In front of the Espresso House, at the corner with Gabriele-Tergit-Promenade.

What's included:

• Guide in Italian
• Professional guide
• Local taxes

Not included:

• Transportation to/from attractions. You should buy a day card for the public transportations of Berlin for the zones AB
• Food and drinks
• Tip for the guide (optional)

What to expect:

Duration: 3 hours

Vive Berlin Tours

Flottwellstraße 16 - Office, 10785 Berlin, Germany

The Italian tour "Berlin during the Third Reich" starts at the meeting point at Potsdamer Platz no. 10 (S/U-Bahn Potsdamer Platz). look for the blue bicycle of VIVE BERLIN TOURS, you will easily recognize the flag with our logo!

10 minutes

German Resistance Memorial Center

Stauffenbergstr. 13 -14, Entrance through the Commemorative Courtyard, Berlin, 10785

This memorial is located in the place from where the operation Valkyrie was directed and illustrate german resistance to National Socialism. The center's goal is to show how individual persons and groups took action against the National Socialist dictatorship from 1933 to 1945.

25 minutes

T4 - Memorial for the Victims of the Nazi Euthanasia Program

Tiergartenstr. 4, Berlin, 12683

A Berlin's monument in memory of about 300,000 victims of the Nazis, people killed because of mental and physical disabilities or with chronic diseases.
The Nazi eugenics program was known as T4, from the name of the office in Tiergartenstrasse n.4 from which it was directed.
It is considered a precursor to the Holocaust.

15 minutes

Anhalter Bahnhof

Stresemannstrasse, Berlin, 10963

It was the biggest European station at the end of 1800, today only the ruins destroyed during the Second World War remain. From the railway station departed many "death trains" from 1942 to 1945.

10 minutes

Scheunenviertel

Scheunenviertel, 10178 Berlin, Germany

Questo parte del quartiere di Mitte a Berlino è denominata “Quartiere Ebraico”. Insieme alla guida verranno visitate alcune delle istituzione ebraiche più importanti di Berlino come la Nuova Sinagoga o la scuola fondata dal filosofo illuminista e modernizzatore dell’ebraismo Moses Mendelssohn.

45 minutes

Museum Blindenwerkstatt Otto Weidt

Rosenthaler Strasse 39, , Berlin, 10178

Otto Weidt also known as the Schindler from Berlin . Weidt hired Jewish workers - including blind and disabled employees - to save them from deportation to Nazi extermination camps. Its history is now remembered in the original location of the factory owned by Mr. Weidt.

15 minutes

Stiftung Neue Synagoge Berlin - Centrum Judaicum

Oranienburger Str. 28 - 30, , Berlin, 10117

The New Synagogue (Neue Synagoge) is one of Berlin's most significant Jewish landmarks. Built in 1866, to seat 3200 people as the largest Jewish place of worship in Germany, the Synagogue was literally a symbol of the thriving Jewish community.

10 minutes

Alter Judischer Friedhof (Old Jewish Cemetery)

Grosse Hamburger Strasse 26, Berlin, 10115

The cemetry in Hamburger Straße was once the resting place of many famous members of Berlin’s Jewish community. It is now the oldest recognisable cemetery in the inner city. Today very little remains of the original place, the cemetery was destroyed during the Nazi period by the Gestapo.

10 minutes