Half-day Berlin Tour with WW2 Expert

Half-day Berlin Tour with WW2 Expert

After 15 years of providing tours about the 3rd Reich in Berlin I have collected dozens of fascinating and obscure anecdotes, photos, maps, and artefacts. I love to get up close to the sites we visit and really poke around for details and oddities. We can stand in the very locations that some of the most famous pictures you know from WW2 were taken!

Itinerary
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Stop At: Brandenburg Gate, Pariser Platz, 10117 Berlin Germany

Set the stage for the tour by discussing what factors led to the Nazi seizure of power on Jan 30, 1933.

Duration: 15 minutes

Stop At: Reichstag Building, Platz der Republik 1, 10557 Berlin Germany

Learn new research regarding the Reichstag Fire in 1933, as well as go over the details of the Soviet Assault on the building at the end of the war and the taking of one of the most famous photos from WW2.

Duration: 15 minutes

Stop At: Soviet Memorial Tiergarten, Strasse des 17. Juni, 10623 Berlin Germany

See some Russian T-34s up close, as well as using maps and fotos to go over the Soviet assault on Berlin, and it's aftermath.

Duration: 15 minutes

Stop At: The Holocaust Memorial - Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, Cora-Berliner-Strasse 1, 10117 Berlin Germany

Stroll though the towering stones of one of Berlins most famous memorials and hear details of the persecution of Berlin's Jewish population. Also find out the little-know secret of what lies beneath the memorial.

Duration: 15 minutes

Stop At: Hitler's Bunker (Fuhrerbunker), Wilhelmstrasse 77, 10117 Berlin Germany

Stand on the ruins of Hitler's bunker and go into the details of his last days at the end of the war. Also see the last photos taken of the bunker interior shortly before it's final destruction.

Duration: 15 minutes

Stop At: T4 - Memorial for the Victims of the Nazi Euthanasia Program, Tiergartenstr. 4, 12683 Berlin Germany

Visit the site of the infamous headquarters of the Nazi T-4 euthanasia program which murdered tens of thousands of German physically and mentally disabled in the pursuit of a Nazi dream of genetic purity.

Duration: 10 minutes

Stop At: German Resistance Memorial Center, Stauffenbergstr. 11-13, 10785 Berlin Germany

Visit the former War Ministry and site where the heroes of the 1944 "Valkyrie" plot to assassinate Hitler were executed after their failed attempt.

Duration: 15 minutes

Pass By: Potsdamer Platz Tiegarten, 10785 Berlin Germany

Pass by the ultra-modern new center of Berlin and take a quick break for snacks.

Stop At: Detlev-Rohwedder-Haus, Wilhelmstraße 97, 10117 Berlin, Germany

Visit the former HQ of Hermann Goering's Luftwaffe and discuss National Socialist architecture, the fate of Goering, and the mystery of how the building survived the Bombing of Berlin.

Duration: 15 minutes

Stop At: Topography of Terror, Niederkirchnerstraße 8, 10963 Berlin, Germany

Walk in the ruins of what was once the headquarters of 2 of history's most infamous organisations - Gestapo and the SS. Learn what happened to the people who were brought here, and what happened to the people who worked here.

Duration: 15 minutes

Stop At: Anhalter Bahnhof, Stresemannstrasse, 10963 Berlin Germany

Visit the bombed-out ruins of what was once Germany's largest train station. Then we get on a train of our own to visit the old Jewish Quarter of Berlin ..

Duration: 15 minutes

Stop At: Stiftung Neue Synagoge Berlin - Centrum Judaicum, Oranienburger Str. 28 - 30, 10117 Berlin Germany

This synagogue, once Berlin's "most beautiful house of God", and hear how it miraculously survived the infamous"Kristallnacht" -- the "Night of Broken Glass" -- in 1938.

Duration: 15 minutes

Stop At: Neue Wache, Unter den Linden 4, 10117 Berlin Germany

See the memorial to the victims of war in Germany and discuss the legacy of the war and the 3rd Reich.

Duration: 15 minutes

Stop At: Book Burning Memorial at Bebelplatz, Bebelplatz 1, 10117 Berlin Germany

Visit the site of the infamous Nazi Bookburnings of 1933.

Duration: 10 minutes

Stop At: Zeughaus, Unter den Linden 2, 10117 Berlin, Germany

Visit the German Museum of History and see some famous statues from the 3rd Reich as well as visit the courtyard where a lesser-known assassination attempt was carried out against Hitler in 1943.

Duration: 15 minutes

Stop At: Am Lustgarten 1 Museum Island, 10178 Berlin Germany

We will see bullet scarred walls on the way to our final stop on the former Royal Gardens of Berlin on the Museum Island in front of some of Berlin's most gorgeous architecture. Here we can look at some amazing photos of the giant rallies which used to take place here, before saying "Auf Wiedersehen" after I orient you and give you suggestions for things to do after the tour.

Duration: 15 minutes