Berlin Nazi-Era History and Memorial Tour

This tour focuses on the Berlin of the Nazi-era. By singling out a range of buildings the mechanisms and the brutality of the Nazi-regime will get highlighted, as will the fact that besides millions of people losing their lives, at the end of the Nazi-terror lay a city and a country in shame and in rubble, to be subsequently divided, with a wall separating the east from the west. This tour takes visitors back to places where things actually happened by also underlining the fact that the Germany of today is a place different from what it was then, yet still haunted by the phantoms of the past.

Meeting Point

Anhalter Bahnhof

10963 Berlin, Germany

Next to the ruins of Anhalter Bahnhof Station

What's included:

• my experience as licenced and trained tour guide

What to expect:

Duration: 3 hours, 30 minutes

Anhalter Bahnhof

Stresemannstrasse, Berlin, 10963

See the ruin of a once glamorous railway station, damaged in WWii and later fully taken down.

10 minutes

Topography of Terror

Niederkirchnerstrasse 8, , Berlin, 10963

Visit the Topography of Terror (formerly the location of the infamous SS and Gestapo HQ) and see a model of what the government district in Nazi-era Berlin looked like.

15 minutes

Memorial of the Berlin Wall

Bernauer Strasse 111, Berlin, 13355

See one of only three remnants of the original Berlin Wall.

10 minutes

Gropius Bau

Niederkirchnerstr. 7, Berlin, 10963

Learn more about Martin Gropius and admire one of his greatest buildings, damaged during WWii and with the scars from the war still visible on the facade.

10 minutes

Potsdamer Platz

Berlin, 10785

Experience what is once again one of Berlin's most buzzing squares, but which was a wasteland during the city's division when parts of it became the infamous "death strip".

15 minutes

Fuhrerbunker

Gertrud-Kolmar-Str. 14, Berlin, 10117

See the location of where the Führer Bunker used to be, now dubbed "the most expensive parking lot in the world". Find out why!

10 minutes

Johann Georg Elser Sculpture

Wilhelmstrasse/An der Kollanade, Berlin

Visit the Georg Elser Memorial and learn more about this courageous man and how he tried to bring Hitler down, all by himself.

10 minutes

Zietenplatz

Mohrenstr. 66 - 67, Berlin, 10117

Discover of what's left of one of the most feared ministries during the Third Reich and find out what's going on in there today.

10 minutes

The Holocaust Memorial - Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe

Cora-Berliner-Strasse 1, Berlin, 10117

Experience what arguably is one of the starkest, most powerful, and most visited memorials in the world. Learn more about its history and its location.

20 minutes

Reichstag Building

Platz der Republik 1, Berlin, 10557

Hear more about the history of the Reichstag, what became of it after 1945, and how it emerged at last as a democratic bulwark in the heart of country which over the course of 100 years went through about 5 different political systems.

20 minutes

Brandenburg Gate

Pariser Platz, Berlin, 10117

To conclude our tour, we visit the Brandenburg Gate, symbol of Germany's division as well as its reunification. Learn more about the gate and how it was used and abused by various regimes, notably the Nazis.

15 minutes