Berlin’s most important World War II sites include the Topography of Terror, the German Resistance Memorial Center, the House of the Wannsee Conference, Museum Berlin-Karlshorst and the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe. Visitors can also see locations connected to the Battle of Berlin, including the Reichstag, Soviet war memorials and the former Führerbunker…
One day in Berlin is enough to understand how the city’s turbulent twentieth century fits together, as long as you stay in one compact area and resist the urge to see everything. The route below starts at the Berlin Wall Memorial, crosses the government district to the Brandenburg Gate and the Topography of Terror, and…
The most famous buildings in Berlin are the Brandenburg Gate, the Reichstag building with its glass dome, Berlin Cathedral and the museums of Museum Island, and the TV Tower at Alexanderplatz. Add the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church, the Neue Nationalgalerie, the Jewish Museum Berlin, the reconstructed Berlin Palace (now the Humboldt Forum) and Charlottenburg Palace,…
Jewish Berlin is not one neighborhood or one museum. It is a history of more than seven centuries, marked by settlement, expulsion, return, achievement, persecution, murder and renewal, and its traces are spread across the city. The most important places to visit are the New Synagogue and the streets of the Spandauer Vorstadt in Mitte,…
