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- French
Uncover the rise of Nazism in Germany with Vive Berlin Tours on this 3-hour French-guided walking and public transport tour. Explore the mechanisms of propaganda, terror, and persecution, with a focus on the fate of Berlin’s Jewish community and other victims of the regime.
Starting at Potsdamer Platz, discover lesser-known memorials, including the T4 memorial, marking the site where the Nazi regime planned the murder of tens of thousands of disabled people.
See WWII battle scars and visit the German Resistance Memorial, site of the 20 July 1944 plot against Hitler. Continue to Hackescher Markt and the former Jewish quarter, passing the New Synagogue and Hackesche Höfe. Walk the 'Street of Tolerance', where a Catholic hospital, a Protestant church, and an old Jewish cemetery stand near a former Jewish retirement home turned by the Gestapo into a transit camp.
What's Included
Meeting and pickup
We meet 20 minutes before the tour starts. In front of the Espresso House, at the corner with Gabriele-Tergit-Promenade.
The tour ends next to the station Hackescher Markt where there is a train station (S-Bahn).
Itinerary
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Vive Berlin Tours (Pass by)
This is our meeting point.
Admission ticket free -
1German Resistance Memorial Center
From Potsdamer Platz, we will see a memorial to the American journalist Varian Fry and then proceed to the German Resistance Memorial at the Bendlerblock. This is the site from which Operation Valkyrie was directed and a memorial that now commemorates all Germans who opposed and fought against Nazism.
50 minutes • Admission ticket free -
2Anhalter Bahnhof
This station, of which a ruined original part remains, was one of the starting points for the deportations of Berlin's Jews. From there, we will take a train to reach Berlin's Jewish quarter.
10 minutes • Admission ticket free -
3Stiftung Neue Synagoge Berlin - Centrum Judaicum
We will tell you about the Jewish community in the 19th and 20th century and the history of the synagogue.
15 minutes • Admission ticket free -
4
We will speak about different institutions which used to be in this street, as a school for Jewish girls and an orphanage in the Nazi Time.
20 minutes • Admission ticket free -
5Grosse Hamburger Strasse
We will see the old Jewish cemetery and a "Sammellager". The place where Jews were detained before their deportation.
30 minutes • Admission ticket free -
6Museum Blindenwerkstatt Otto Weidt
The Museum tells the story of the workshop. The owner of the small factory, Otto Weidt, employed mainly blind and deaf Jews here during World War II. They produced brooms and brushes. Otto Weidt tried to protect them. You will listen to a story about braveness and humanity.
20 minutes • Admission ticket free -
Hackescher Markt (Pass by)
We end our on the market place.
Admission ticket free
Additional info
- Wheelchair accessible
- Service animals allowed
- Public transportation options are available nearby
- Travelers should have at least a moderate level of physical fitness
- Operates in all weather conditions, please dress appropriately
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Cancellation Policy
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
Cancellation Policy
- For a full refund, you must cancel at least 24 hours before the experience’s start time.
- If you cancel less than 24 hours before the experience’s start time, the amount you paid will not be refunded.
- Any changes made less than 24 hours before the experience’s start time will not be accepted.
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