Berlin Wall

During night of August 12th, 1961, the National People’s Army began cordoning off the streets and rail lines towards West Berlin. The GDR government then allowed a wall to be built along the sector borders. In trying to get over the border, which is 167.8 kilometre long, that between 136 and 209 people were killed according to current research. On November 9th 1989, the wall fell. The once divided city remembers the victims of the division at numerous sites.

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Asisi Panorama

THE BERLIN WALL – The asisi Panorama on a divided Berlin by the artist Yadegar Asisi at Checkpoint Charlie at the corner of Friedrichstraße and...

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DDR Museum

The GDR museum is one of the newest and most visited in Berlin. For a good reason: it is the only museum that deals exclusively with life in the...

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Deutsches Historisches Museum (German History Museum)

The German History Museum is the official national history museum of the Federal Republic of Germany. The museum’s objective is to present German...

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Mauermuseum - Haus am Checkpoint Charlie

Today, the house at Checkpoint Charlie shows an almost incomprehensible number of original means and tools that people used in their escape out of the "DDR": from the...

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The Story of Berlin

The Story of Berlin is a multimedia exhibition with over 20 theme-rooms which show over 800 years of the capital's history: from its trading centre status in the...

Forschungs- und Gedenkstätte Normannenstraße (Stasimuseum)

Research and Documentation Centre Normannenstrasse: On January 15, 1990, thousands of people stormed the heretofore hermetically sealed premises of the Stasi Centre...

Allied museum

The Allied Museum tells the history of the Western Powers in Berlin. The buildings are located in the center of the former U.S. sector and originally housed the...

Black Box

The 200 m² (2,150 ft²) of the Black Box at Checkpoint Charlie informs the public on the history of this most famous border crossing point. With the...

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...

Deutsch-Russisches Museum Berlin-Karlshorst (German-Russian Museum)

The German-Russian Museum was officially opened on May 10th, 1995, the fiftieth anniversary of the end of the war in Europe. It is meant as a...

East Side Gallery

An East German Trabant car, which appears to be breaking through the concrete. Honecker and Breschnew locked in a kiss of brotherly, socialistic love. With the East...

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...

Mauerpark

The "death strip" has become a zone of life. The name of the park. which literally means wall park, dates back to the Berlin Wall which was erected in 1961 to...

The Berlin Wall Memorial and Documentation Centre

The Berlin Wall Memorial is a reminder for the division of Germany and imparts an oppressive impression of the Wall and the times of the division.

Memorial...

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...

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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