Third Reich Berlin
The Nazis ruled Berlin, the Holocaust capital, for twelve brutal years. Come see what is left of the Reich destined to last a thousand years.
Explore the how and why of the Nazi's rise and fall. Experience the remnants of a city in ruins and its rebirth. Your guides are Berlin's leaders in English language guides, have lectured on this topic at Stanford in Berlin, and are qualified guides of the Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp Memorial. We don't shy away from controversial topics, and can shed light on your understanding of Berlin's darkest history.
Your expert guide will address how Hitler manipulated democracy to legally grasp at power, how the regime changed German society; how some Germans resisted and dissented; and how the specter of the Nazi’s unparalleled crimes haunt post-war Germany.
Since we use the latest research, you guide is an expert in the Third Reich and we search out the ruins and remnants of a dictatorship unequalled in brutality and callous efficiency.
The Third Reich centered itself in Berlin’s city centre. This tour is best done on foot. There are many other Nazi ruins and stories to be told in Berlin; we can expand this tour with a car or bus and can take you to the Olympic Stadium, Hitler Youth Camps, or to any of Berlin’s other memorials.
This tour covers:
- Hitler's rise to power
- The government street Wilhelmstrs
- Hitler's New Reich Chancellery
- The site of Hitler's and Goebbel's bunkers, and their last days
- SS headquarters, Gestapo HQ
- Nazi Air ministry
- Propaganda ministry
- Rudolf Hess' HQ
- The battle for Berlin in 1945
- Escapes from Hitler's chancellery and today's survivors accounts
- Site of the Euthanasia Program HQ
- Hitler's building plans for world capital Germania
- Memorial to Sinti and Roma
- Memorial to the murdered Jews of Europe
- Driver's bunkers
and much more....
Duration 3.5-6hrs