- Mitte - 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
- Passionate and experienced guide
This tour is an excellent choice regardless of your familiarity with the history of the Third Reich and World War II, whether you’re well-versed in it or simply curious. Your guide has a lifelong interest in World War II, and we will thoroughly discuss everything concerning the rise of Nazi Germany, paying special attention to the 1918-1933 period. We will also discuss the establishment of dictatorship and the path to war and genocide from 1933 to 1939.
Special attention will be given to the military aspects of World War II in Berlin, the effects of the strategic bombings on the city during the war, and the final Soviet onslaught, the Battle of Berlin. Despite the near total annihilation and subsequent removal of many buildings post-war, we will make an effort to explore as many remaining tangible sites as possible. Along the way, we will also debunk a few prevalent myths and misconceptions!
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
