• Mitte - This tour delves into the rise and fall of Nazi Berlin, visiting significant sites from this dark chapter in Berlin’s history.

Participants will explore how the Nazis seized power and established their oppressive regime, visiting key locations associated with these events. The tour will examine the operations of the Gestapo and SS, providing insights into their methods of terror and suppression. There will be ample opportunity to learn about Berlin during the war and witness the gradual destruction of the Third Reich’s capital from both air and land as the war turned against the Nazis.

The tour includes a walk through the Government district (Wilhelmstrasse), the heart of the Third Reich. Visitors will see the former Reich Main Security Office, headquarters of the SS and Gestapo, the former Luftwaffe HQ, The New Reich Chancellery, and Hitler’s bunker. Although the latter is now a “ghost site,” the tour will visit the imposing bunker on Reinhardtstrasse, as well as lesser-known sites related to the Battle of Berlin. The Soviet assault on the city at the end of World War II will be discussed in detail, and the many scars the city still bears will be observed. Several remarkable memorials to the victims and victors of World War II will also be visited.

List of sites visited:

Brandenburg Gate

Reichstag

Air-raid shelter on Reinhardt Strasse

Moltkebrücke

Site of the Kroll Opera House

Soviet War Memorial

Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe

Site of the Fuhrer Bunker and New Reich’s Chancellery

Former Luftwaffe HQ

Former Gestapo and SS HQ

• Brandenburg Gate - View the iconic Brandenburg Gate while learning about Germany before and after the First World War, and the background to the rise of the Nazis.
• Reichstag Building - Visit one of Germany’s most iconic buildings and discuss its significance in the establishment of the Nazi dictatorship, as well as recounting the fierce battle fought by the Soviets to capture the building.
• Soviet Memorial Tiergarten - Visit the impressive Soviet War Memorial in the Tiergarten, the only Soviet Memorial in former West Berlin, while discussing the War in the East and the Battle of Berlin. The Allied bombing campaigns over Germany and Berlin will also be covered.
• The Holocaust Memorial - Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe - Experience the largest and most significant of Berlin’s many memorials.
• Bundesministerium der Finanzen - Now the Finance Ministry, but originally the HQ for the Luftwaffe. Learn about its history and gain an overview of Nazi architecture.
• Topography of Terror - Explore one of the most notorious sites in Nazi Berlin, the former SS and Gestapo HQ. Learn about the operations conducted there and how the site has been memorialized over time.
• Fuhrerbunker - Discover what lay both below and above ground at what is now one of the world’s most infamous parking lots. Learn about the key events leading up to Hitler’s death in late April 1945.

• Passionate and experienced guide

This tour is an excellent choice regardless of your familiarity with the history of the Third Reich and World War II, whether you’re well-versed in it or simply curious. Your guide has a lifelong interest in World War II, and we will thoroughly discuss everything concerning the rise of Nazi Germany, paying special attention to the 1918-1933 period. We will also discuss the establishment of dictatorship and the path to war and genocide from 1933 to 1939.

Special attention will be given to the military aspects of World War II in Berlin, the effects of the strategic bombings on the city during the war, and the final Soviet onslaught, the Battle of Berlin. Despite the near total annihilation and subsequent removal of many buildings post-war, we will make an effort to explore as many remaining tangible sites as possible. Along the way, we will also debunk a few prevalent myths and misconceptions!

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.