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Uncover the rise of Nazism in Germany with Vive Berlin Tours on this 3-hour Italian-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.
Itinerary
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The Italian tour "Berlin during the Third Reich" starts at the meeting point at Potsdamer Platz no. 10 (S/U-Bahn Potsdamer Platz). look for the blue bicycle of VIVE BERLIN TOURS, you will easily recognize the flag with our logo!
10 minutes • Admission ticket free -
2German Resistance Memorial Center
This memorial is located in the place from where the operation Valkyrie was directed and illustrate german resistance to National Socialism. The center's goal is to show how individual persons and groups took action against the National Socialist dictatorship from 1933 to 1945.
25 minutes • Admission ticket free -
3T4 - Memorial for the Victims of the Nazi Euthanasia Program
A Berlin's monument in memory of about 300,000 victims of the Nazis, people killed because of mental and physical disabilities or with chronic diseases. The Nazi eugenics program was known as T4, from the name of the office in Tiergartenstrasse n.4 from which it was directed. It is considered a precursor to the Holocaust.
15 minutes • Admission ticket free -
4Anhalter Bahnhof
It was the biggest European station at the end of 1800, today only the ruins destroyed during the Second World War remain. From the railway station departed many "death trains" from 1942 to 1945.
10 minutes • Admission ticket free -
5
Questo parte del quartiere di Mitte a Berlino è denominata “Quartiere Ebraico”. Insieme alla guida verranno visitate alcune delle istituzione ebraiche più importanti di Berlino come la Nuova Sinagoga o la scuola fondata dal filosofo illuminista e modernizzatore dell’ebraismo Moses Mendelssohn.
45 minutes • Admission ticket free -
6Museum Blindenwerkstatt Otto Weidt
Otto Weidt also known as the Schindler from Berlin . Weidt hired Jewish workers - including blind and disabled employees - to save them from deportation to Nazi extermination camps. Its history is now remembered in the original location of the factory owned by Mr. Weidt.
15 minutes • Admission ticket free -
7Stiftung Neue Synagoge Berlin - Centrum Judaicum
The New Synagogue (Neue Synagoge) is one of Berlin's most significant Jewish landmarks. Built in 1866, to seat 3200 people as the largest Jewish place of worship in Germany, the Synagogue was literally a symbol of the thriving Jewish community.
10 minutes • Admission ticket free -
8Alter Judischer Friedhof (Old Jewish Cemetery)
The cemetry in Hamburger Straße was once the resting place of many famous members of Berlin’s Jewish community. It is now the oldest recognisable cemetery in the inner city. Today very little remains of the original place, the cemetery was destroyed during the Nazi period by the Gestapo.
10 minutes • Admission ticket free
Additional info
- Wheelchair accessible
- Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
- Service animals allowed
- Public transportation options are available nearby
- Infants are required to sit on an adult’s lap
- Transportation options are wheelchair accessible
Additional info
- Wheelchair accessible
- Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
- Service animals allowed
- Public transportation options are available nearby
- Infants are required to sit on an adult’s lap
- Transportation options are wheelchair accessible
- All areas and surfaces are wheelchair accessible
- Suitable for all physical fitness levels
- 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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You can cancel up to 24 hours in advance of the experience for a full refund.
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