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History

© Swen Rudolph

1/01/2013 – 12/31/2099

Anne Frank. here & now

The exhibition focuses on the diary and the story of the life of Anne Frank.
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Anne Frank Zentrum
History

© Dokumentationszentrum NS-Zwangsarbeit / M. Steffen

8/08/2010 – 12/31/2099

Barrack 13

Barack 13 was one of the first buildings of the camp, started to be built in 1943. Between 1944 and 1945 there were Italian military internees and civilian workers accommodated here. Numerous inscriptions with names and dates, which can be visited in the…
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Dokumentationszentrum NS-Zwangsarbeit Berlin-Schöneweide
Science & Technology

© Dokumentationszentrum NS-Zwangsarbeit

11/13/2015 – 12/31/2099

Batteries for the Wehrmacht

The Pertrix Company, a subsidiary of the Quandt Group company AFA (Akkumulatorenfabrik AG) produceded dry batteries and flashlights for the Wehrmacht and delivered igniter batteries for warplanes to the German Air Force. Batteries were a central product of the…
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Dokumentationszentrum NS-Zwangsarbeit Berlin-Schöneweide
Exhibitions

© Joseph Schmidt,Stadtmuseum Berlin

1/19/2018 – 5/27/2018

BOULEVARD BERLIN - A century of comedy at Kurfürstendamm

In the last season before demolition, an exhibition commemorates the glamorous - almost 100 years of comedy history. The eventful history of the stage reflects 100 years of Berlin life. Thanks to the support of TheaterGemeinde Berlin, more than 50 photos from…
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Komödie am Kurfürstendamm

21:00 pm
History

© SPSG / Foto: Wolfgang Pfauder

4/01/2012 – 12/31/2099

Cecilienhof Palace and the Potsdam Conference

In summer 1945 world history was made at Cecilienhof Palace in Potsdam. After the end of hostilities in Europe, representatives of the three main allies of World War II met here for top-level discussions on the restructuring of Europe and the future of Germany…
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- permanent exhibition
- World War II
Schloss Cecilienhof - Potsdam
Play

© Elke Rehder/Kleines Theater

5/24/2018 + 1 additional date

Chess novel

Chess novella after Stefan Zweig Stefan Zweig's novel is regarded as a masterpiece of literary history. On an ocean liner, the game of chess is used by the passengers for pure entertainment.
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Kleines Theater

20:00 pm
Lecture

© Foto: Privatbesitz Michele Montagano

4/25/2018

Contemporary witness talk with Michele Montagano

Michele Montagano (born 1921) was called up for Italian military service in February 1941. After the cease-fire between Italy and the Allies in September 1943, he was arrested by the Germans like thousands of other Italian soldiers and deported to Germany as a…
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Dokumentationszentrum NS-Zwangsarbeit Berlin-Schöneweide

19:00 pm – 21:00 pm
History

© Bezirksmuseum Marzahn-Hellersdorf

4/30/2013 – 12/31/2099

Forced labor camps Kaulsdorfer Straße 90

During the Nazi era there were at least 30 forced labor camps in the present district of Marzahn-Hellersdorf. The largest was in Kaulsdorf-Süd, Kaulsdorfer Straße 90. The site, originally Jewish property, was compulsorily sanctioned.
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Open-Air-Ausstellung
History

© Stadtarchiv Meinerzhagen

5/08/2013 – 12/31/2099

Forced Labour in the Daily Round 1938–1945

The exhibition shows the everyday life of the men, women and children who are taken to work - in the camp, at work, in contact with Germans. It illustrates how much the life of the forced laborers was shaped by the graduated racist hierarchy of the Nazi regime…
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Dokumentationszentrum NS-Zwangsarbeit Berlin-Schöneweide

15:00 pm – 18:00 pm
Guided Tour

© Gedenkstätte Berlin-Hohenschönhausen

1/01/2017 – 12/31/2099

Guided tours for the blind and visually impaired at Berlin-Hohenschönhausen Memorial (GDR State Security Prison)

The 90-minute tour provides visitors with all the information on political arrest and persecution during the Soviet occupation and the GDR by sensing and listening.
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Gedenkstätte Hohenschönhausen - Hauptgebäude
Walking Tour

© dioxin-photocase.com

7/22/2017 – 12/31/2099

Insider Tour – Jewish Berlin Tour (4h)

Berlin promotes one of the fastest growing Jewish communities in the world and is now a place where the new developments of Jewish life are most visible.
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Zoologischer Garten - Mc' Donalds

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Guided Tour

© Edgar Guzmanruiz

6/01/2017 – 12/31/2099

Insider Tour – Third Reich Berlin

Discover the history of the Nazis, Gestapo and SS, while you revive the besieged Berlin and its downfall again.
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Zoologischer Garten Berlin - Zoo-Restaurant

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Architecture & Design

© Philipp Dase

3/24/2016 – 12/31/2099

Myth of Germania

The vast project of planning Hitler’s Germania was not meant merely to serve Berlin’s citizens with a modernized habitat, but rather as a representation of the Nazi regime’s sheer power. With a project that seemed inconceivable to most, the foundations were…
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Berliner Unterwelten-Museum
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Art

© Foto: Jürgen Pleuser, 2015

6/30/2017 – 6/17/2018

New/Old Homeland - Artist’s R/emigration after 1945

Artist’s R/emigration after 1945 with appr. 50 works by 15 artists. In the exhibition, various topics and issues are being addressed: Emigrant artists, who were unable to return to Germany after WWII; exiled artists whose reception and recognition in Germany…
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Kunsthaus Dahlem
History

© Margot Blank

1/01/2015 – 12/31/2099

Permanent exhibition: Germany and the Soviet Union during the Second World War 1941-1945

The Second World War began on 1 September 1939 with the German attack on Poland. Never before in a war were more people killed and major devastations set up. This is particularly true of the conquest of conquest and extermination of the Soviet Union. The World…
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Deutsch-Russisches Museum Karlshorst
Guided Tour

© Gedenkstätte Berlin-Hohenschönhausen

1/01/2017 – 12/31/2099

The "Grotewohl-Express"

The 90-minute tour provides visitors with all the information on political arrest and persecution during the Soviet occupation and the GDR.
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Gedenkstätte Hohenschönhausen - Hauptgebäude
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Art

© The Feuerle Collection, Foto: def image

1/01/2017 – 12/31/2099

The Feuerle Collection

Not far from the triangular triangle, in the area of the former Anhalter railway station, directly opposite the Museum of Technology, Désiré Feuerle shows his collection of international contemporary artists' positions in an industrial monument from the Second…
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The Feuerle Collection

14:00 pm

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History

© Militärhistorisches Museum

1/01/2017 – 12/31/2099

The history of the Air Force of the Federal Republic of Germany

The aircraft typical of each decade are displayed along with exhibits from the relevant period and film and media stations. Several adjoining rooms are dedicated to various aspects of the everyday life of German Air Force soldiers.
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- History
- World War II
Militärhistorisches Museum (Flugplatz Berlin-Gatow
History

© Uwe Bellm/Stiftung Topographie des Terrors

4/24/2018 – 10/21/2018

The People's Court 1934-1945 - Terrorism by "Law"

The new exhibition illustrates how, over the years, the court, which at the beginning was still orientated by law, has developed into a terrorist court - in total, there have been more than 16,000 convicts of the "People's Court".
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- World War II
- National Socialism
Topographie des Terrors - Dokumentationszentrum

10:00 am
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Guided Tour

© Gedenkstätte Berlin-Hohenschönhausen

1/01/2017 – 12/31/2099

The Prison Hospital at GDR State Security Prison

The 90-minute tour provides visitors with all the information on political arrest and persecution during the Soviet occupation and the GDR.
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