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Close to the Brandenburg Gate in the heart of Berlin, the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe is also found. It is a memorial that is a stele-field which can be...

"Stufen" (Steps) Underground Sculpture

"Stufen" (Steps) is a subterranean sculpture made from white painted sheet metal in the excavated ground of the St. Matthäus Church. This permanently installed piece...

Airlift Memorial

The Tempelhof Airport is a piece of Berliner history: already, the stiff, monumental architecture reveals the mark of the Third Reich, whose largest completed...

Block of Women

Between the Hakescher Markt and Alexanderplatz runs Rosenstraße, which together with the Heidereutergasse provides the boundary of a small park in the Marienviertel...

Book burning memorial at Bebelplatz

If you are walking from the boulevard Unter den Linden to the Bebelplatz, you will probably see people who watch together on a spot on the floor. Only on closer...

Bundeswehr Cenotaph

Since its inception in 1955, the Bundeswehr has lost around 3100 soldiers and individuals in civilan services. Federal President Horst Köhler officially inaugurated...

Checkpoint Charlie

It is the scene of several thrillers and espionage novels ranging from James Bond's "Octo-pussy" to "The Spy Who Came in From the Cold" by John le Carré: Check Point...

Erinnerungstätte Notaufnahmelager Marienfelde (Marienfelde Refugee Center Museum)

Around 4 million people left the GDR between 1949 and 1990 in the direction of the Federal Republic – 1.35 million of these passed through the refugee camp in Berlin-...

Gedenkstätte Berlin Hohenschönhausen

The Soviets took over a former canteen block in the north-east of Berlin at the end of the Second World War and turned it into a special detainment camp. After the...

Gedenkstätte Sachsenhausen

The area of today’s memorial site Sachsenhausen was one of the largest concentration camps of the Reich between 1936 and 1945. During that time,...

German Resistance Memorial Center

The German Resistance Memorial Center at the Bendlerblock building complex commemorates German resistance against National Socialism. The centre of the memorial is an...

Geschichtsparcours (Historical Exhibit)

The historical tour is a system providing historical information within the city. It consists of 30 signs which are distributed between 14 different points throughout...

Grave of Heinrich von Kleist & Henriette Vogel

The poet Heinrich von Kleist died at just 33 years of age. He committed suicide together with his friend Henriette Vogel on 21 November 1811. The grave is located at...

Memorial for the Nazi era persecution of homosexuals

The memorial was designed by the Danish-Norwegian artists Michael Elmgreen and Ingar Dragset and was inaugurated on May 27th 2008. The 3.60-meter high and 1.90-meter...

Nazi Forced Labour Documentation Centre

One of the last well preserved Nazi forced labour camps is located in Berlin Schöneweide. The thirteen symmetrically arranged stone barracks...

Neue Wache Memorial

The Neue Wache memorial has been the main memorial site for the victims of war and tyranny since 1993. The building, which was designed by Karl Friedrich Schinkel as...

Plötzensee Memorial Center

The Plötzensee Memorial Center is a place of quiet commemoration because here almost 3.000 people were unjustly executed between 1933 and 1945 by the Nazi justice...

SA-Gefängnis Papestraße (SA Prison Papestraße)

During the Nazi dictatorship, the Feldpolizei (Field Police) of the SA group in Berlin-Bradenburg set up a provisional prison which was to become a distinct scene of...

Schwerbelastungskörper (Heavy Load-Bearing Body)

Under the direction of his architect Albert Speer, Hitler wanted to redesign Berlin as "Germania", the capital of the new German world capital. According to Hitler’s...

Sinti and Roma Memorial

A memorial was erected south of the Reichstag in October 2012 in order to commemorate the Sinti and Roma murdered under National Socialist rule during the Genocide,...

Soviet Memorial Tiergarten

Right in the centre of the capital, two “T 34” tanks flank the bronze statue of a red army soldier who is carrying his rifle over his shoulder. The columns behind him...

Soviet Memorial Treptow

Three great Soviet memorials were erected in Berlin after the war, which not only serve as memorials, but also as war cemeteries. The facility in the Treptower Park...

Stolpersteine

If the name is forgotten, so is the person. To prevent this, the artist Gunter Demnig began an art project back in 1996 that would continue to this day on the...

The Anna Seghers Memorial

The surname "Seghers-Radvanyi" can still be found on the front door. The nameplate shows the way leading to the former flat and working space of the author Anna...

Topography of Terror

Between 1933 and 1945, the centres of national-socialist terror, namely the Gestapo with its own prison, the SS headquarters, the SS Security Service (SD) and the...

Trains to Life – Trains to Death

An almost life-size sculpture of children depicted in bronze stands directly adjacent to the Friedrichstraße station at the intersection of Georgenstraße and...

Tränenpalast (Palace of Tears)

Leave-taking and longing, hope and despair, joy and fear — the building constructed in 1962 at Berlin’s Friedrichstraße station is tied to a broad spectrum of...

Chill out in a restaurant along the water

Located directly on the water, this romantic, relaxed and comfortable restaurant is decorated with wooden furniture, old lamps and ornate picture frames. Simply put, Freischwimmer is a cool location in Kreuzberg’s Flutgraben area. The restaurant is in a very old building that was once used for renting and repairing boats. The entrance is directly next to Berlin’s oldest gas station. You can sit outdoors during the summer and indoors during the winter.

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