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…
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…
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…
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.
Who were the people who had to perform forced labor in Berlin, where did they come from and under what conditions did they have to live and work? Who were the profiteers and who organized and administered the use of forced labor? What was the post-war fate of…
The Potsdam Conference marks one of the most important historical events of the 20th century. World-wide, it stands as a symbol of the endpoint of World War II in Europe and the outbreak of the Cold War. The “Potsdam Agreement” that was adopted at Cecilienhof…
