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- German
- English
Uncover Berlin's Darkest Chapter
Step into a difficult but necessary part of Berlin's past. This rigorously factual audio walk traces the scars of World War II and the centers of Nazi power. You will deeply understand the sensitive history of the Jewish community's persecution and the dismantling of democracy. Grasp the devastating events of the Third Reich exactly where they happened, allowing you to reflect and learn at your own pace.
How It Works
No human person for guiding (tourguide), this is self-guided audio tour. You use your own smartphone to navigate and listen. No app download is required—just click the access link in your ticket to begin instantly. This route explores the free public sights, so no entrance tickets are needed or included.
Tour Details
* Duration: 2h walking, 40m audio
* Stops: 10
* Languages: EN, DE
What's Included
Meeting and pickup
Please note: There is no human person (tourguide) to meet you here. Simply open the link provided in your ticket on your smartphone to start the audio guide and navigation entirely on your own.
Itinerary
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1Berlin Friedrichstrasse Station
One of Berlin's busiest rail hubs and the meeting point for our walk. Beneath its bustle lies a divided memory, for this station was both a doorway to rescue for Jewish children and, later, a transit point in the deportation of the city's Jews.
10 minutes • Admission ticket free -
2Trains To Life Trains To Death
A bronze group of seven children stands outside Friedrichstraße station, frozen between two destinies. Two figures face the trains that carried them to safety in England, while five turn the other way, toward the trains that carried Berlin's Jewish children to their deaths.
10 minutes • Admission ticket free -
3Reichstag Building
The seat of German democracy, crowned by a luminous glass dome. On a winter night in 1933, fire tore through this building and gave the Nazi regime the pretext it needed to dismantle the republic.
10 minutes • Admission ticket free -
4Soviet Memorial Tiergarten
A sweeping curved colonnade crowned by a towering bronze Red Army soldier, flanked by two T-34 tanks and field guns. It marks the graves of more than 2,000 Soviet soldiers who fell taking Berlin in 1945.
10 minutes • Admission ticket free -
5Brandenburg Gate
Berlin's neoclassical triumphal gate, crowned by the Quadriga chariot, became a backdrop for Nazi propaganda after 1933 and a battered ruin on the front line in 1945. It stands today as a monument to both the city's grandeur and its catastrophe.
10 minutes • Admission ticket free -
6Akademie der Kunste
Behind a vast modern glass facade on Pariser Platz stand the surviving halls of the old Prussian Academy of Arts. From 1937 these rooms were taken over by Albert Speer, Hitler's chief architect, to draft the megalomaniac plans for a Nazi world capital called Germania.
10 minutes • Admission ticket free -
7The Holocaust Memorial - Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe
A vast, undulating field of 2,711 grey concrete stelae just south of the Brandenburg Gate. This is Germany's central memorial to the up to six million Jews murdered in the Holocaust, with an underground Place of Information beneath it.
10 minutes • Admission ticket free -
8Fuhrerbunker
An ordinary residential car park is all that marks the spot where Adolf Hitler spent the final weeks of the war and took his own life on the thirtieth of April 1945. A single modest information board is the only acknowledgement of what lies buried beneath the asphalt.
10 minutes • Admission ticket free -
9Aviation Ministery of Berlin
A vast, fortress like government block that was Hermann Göring's Air Ministry and the headquarters of the Luftwaffe. One of the very few major Nazi buildings in central Berlin to survive the war almost intact, it still looms over the street today.
10 minutes • Admission ticket free -
10Topography of Terror
On the very ground where the Gestapo and SS once directed a continent-wide machinery of persecution, this documentation centre lays the terror bare. An open trench of excavated cellar walls runs beneath a stark grey hall, beside the longest surviving stretch of the Berlin Wall in the city centre.
10 minutes • Admission ticket free
Additional info
- Service animals allowed
- Public transportation options are available nearby
- Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
- Suitable for all physical fitness levels
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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.
You can cancel up to 24 hours in advance of the experience for a full refund.
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