Forschungs- und Gedenkstätte Normannstraße (Normannenstraße Research and Memorial Centre) The former headquarters, ot the Stasi, The East german secret police, it is now a centre for examining the history of the GDR’s political system and the organisations that oppressed its citizens. The centre is also called the "Stasi Museum". Along with the office of former Stasi boss Erich Mielke, various items of political interest are on display. Admission: 5DM, groups of 11 or more 4DM, red. 2,50DM.
Connections: U+S Frankfurter Allee, U Magdalenenstr., S Lichtenberg
Address: Ruschestr. 103, Haus 1, Lichtenberg Tel: +49 (0)30 - 5536854 fax=
Email: Openings= Tu+Fr 11am -6pm, Sa+Su 2pm- 6pm
Denkmal zur Bücherverbrennung (Memorial of the Book-Burning) The memorial commemorates the public burning of books by the Nazis on 10 May 1933. In the middle of Bebelplatz, a glass window in the ground with glaring white empty shelves beneath it symbolises the limitation of every kind of inellectual freedom under National Socialism.
Connections: U Französische Str. / Bus 100
Address: Bebelplatz, Mitte Tel: fax=
Email: Openings=
Deportations-Mahnmal (Deportations Monument) A goods wagon on this site commemorates the deportation of 55.000 Berlin Jews between 1941 and 1945.
Connections: Tiergarten U Hansaplatz
Address: Levetzowstr. 7-8 Tel: fax=
Email: Openings=
Gedenkstätte Berliner Mauer (Berlin Wall Memorial) Very little is left of the original Wall, most of the wall segments are given to museums all over the world or sold. Bernauer Straße separates the districts Wedding and Mitte. Until 1989 the Wall ran along here. The documentation centre on the history of the division of Berlin was opened in November 1999. It shows the political background and people’s individual experience of being permanently faced with the wall in the daily life.
Connections: U Bernauerstr., S Nordbahnhof, bus 328.
Address: Bernauer Str., Wedding Tel: +49 (0)30 - 4635106
Email: Openings=We-Su 10am -5pm, admission free
Topographie des Terrors (Topography of Terror) The Prince Albert Site was once the location of the headquarters of the Gestapo, the SS and the main Office for the Security of the Reich. The exhibition shows the history of these Nazi institutions and of the site. A new "international documentation and meeting centre" is due to open here at the end of 2001. Until then the exhibition is being displayed in the open air on the site.
Connections: U+S Potsdamer Platz, U Kochstr., S Anhalter Bahnhof
Address: Niederkirchnerstr. 8, next to Martin-Gropius-Bau, Kreuzberg Tel: +49 (0)30 - 24846703 fax=
Email: Openings= daily 10am -6pm, admission free
Haus am Checkpoint Charlie Permanent and special exhibition cover topics in German history after 1945, especially the division of Berlin, the building of the Wall and its influence on daily life. Documentary film shows and especially talks with eyewitnesses give a memorable picture of the relationship between the two parts of Germany during the Cold War. Admission: adults 8DM, school pupils and students 5DM, groups of 10 or more 4,50DM
Connections: U Kochstr., bus 129
Address: Friedrichstr. 43-44, Kreuzberg Tel: +49 (0)30 - 2537250 fax=
Email: Openings= daily 9am -10pm
Deutsch-russisches Museum Berlin-Karlshorst The former officers’ mess of the pilots school. This was where the German army signed the document of unconditional surrender in 1945. Four years later the first government of the GDR was awarded full state powers here. From 1967 the Soviet military used this historic building as a "museum on the great patriotic war". Since 1990 it has been a museum on the history of the remarkable German-Soviet relationschip.
Connections: S Karlshorst, bus 396
Address: Zwieseler Str. 4 Tel: +49 (0)30 - 50150810 fax=
Email: Openings= Tu-Su 10am -6pm, admission free
Anne Frank Zentrum A small exhibition on Anne Frank’s life offers you the chance to explore themes like National Socialism, the Holocaust, racism and Jewsih history. The Centre also runs the project "Blind Faith -In Hiding at Hackescher Markt". During the Nazi period the brushmaker Otto Weidt hid a Jewish family in the back room of his workshop for blind peopl, e.
Connections: S Oranienburger Str.
Address: OranienburgerStr. 26, Mitte Tel: +49 (0)30 - 30872988 fax=
Email: Openings=Mo-Fr 9am -3pm, Admission: 3DM, red 1DM
Siegessäule (Victory Column) The 70-metre-high column is crowned by the gilded victory goddess, nicknamed "Goldelse" -Golden Lizzie -by the Berliners. Among other things, she has decorated the cover of certain books. Since Love Parade has been held in the Tiergarten she's become its "landmark" -let love rule! Incidentally, the gun barrels around the column are genuine. Below are the Austrian, then the French and on top the Danish. Admission: 2DM, red. 1DM.
Connection: Bus 100, 187, 341
Address: Straße des 17. Juni Tel: fax=
Neue Wache (New Royal Guardhouse) In 1958 the GDR set up a "memorial for the victims of fascism and militarism", in this Schinkel building. Since 1993 it has been the central German memorial for "the victims of war and tyranny". But much more impressive than any memorial name is the unlit interior with its open ceiling and the pieta by Käthe Kollwitz.
Address: Unter den Linden 4 Tel: fax=
Email: Opening Hours:
Gedenkstätte Haus der Wannsee-Konferenz (Memorial House of the Wannsee Conference) This villa in its idyllic setting at Wannsee was the place where the organisational details of the deportation and murder of the Jews of Europe were worked out. (The basic decision to eliminate the Jews had already been taken) An exhibition documents the conference, its historical background and its consequences. The educational section of the memorial centre offers daylong study courses on National Socialism and Jewish history. Take bus 114.
Address: Am Großen Wannsee 56-58, Zehlendorf Tel: +49 (0)30 - 8050010 Openings=Mo-Fr 10am -6pm, Sa+Su 2pm -6pm, admission free
Brecht-Weigel-Gedenkstätte (Brecht-Weigel memorial Centre) The last living and working quarters of Bertolt Brecht and Helene Weigel.
Connections: U Oranienburger Tor
Address: Chausseestr. 125, Mitte Tel: +49 (0)30 - 2829916 fax=
Email: Openings= Tu-Fr 10am -noon, Th 5pm -7pm, Sa 9.30am -2pm, Su 11am -6pm
Bundeskanzler-Willy-Brandt-Stiftung (Federal Chancellor-Willy Brandt Foundation) The permanent exhibition in Schöneberg Town Hall, "Fighting for freedom -Willy Brandt 1913-1992" shows life and work of the politician Willy Brandt. Regular guided tours: Th, Sa and Su 2pm and 4pm or by appointment.
Connections: U Rathaus Schöneberg
Address: Rathaus Schöneberg, John-F.-Kennedy-Platz, Schöneberg Tel: +49 (0)30 - 78770711 fax=
Gedenkstätte, Deutscher Widerstand (Memori, al of German Resistance) In 1953 a memorial centre with a courtyard of honour was opened in the Bendlerblock, the former headquarters of the army high comma, nd. This was the centre of the attempt to overthrow Hitler on 20 July 1944. Since 1989 the building has housed a permanent exhibition documenting the many different kinds of resistance to National Socialism. You can go on guided tours free of charge here -please book in advance.
Connections: U Kurfürstenstr., bus 129.
Address: Stauffenbergstr. 13-14, Tiergarten Tel: +49 (0)30 - 26995000 fax=
Email: Openings=Mo-Fr 9am -6pm, Th 9am -8pm, Sa & Su 10am -6pm, admission free
Gedenkstätte Berlin-Hohenschönhausen (Hohenschönhausen Memorial Centre) From 1945 to 1989 this was the site of various institutions of the despotic justice system for punishing resistance and opposition in the Soviet occupied zone and the GDR. It was a prison, a detention centre, a centre for political prosecutions and a special Soviet prison camp, the ce, ntral Soviet remand prison and the central secret police remand prison in the GDR. Today the memorial centre organises events, seminars and guided tours. Tours with eyewitnesses or former political prisoners should be booked in advance.
connections: S Landsberger Allee, tram 5, 6, 7, 15, 17,
Address: Genslerstr. 66, Hohenschönhausen Tel: +49 (0)30 - 98608230 fax=
Email: Openings=8.30am -4.30pm, Sa till 3pm, guided tours Mo-Th 1pm, Fr+Sa 11am +1pm
Gedenkstätte Plötzensee (Plötzensee Memorial Centre) A place of peace and remembrance. Victims of the Nazi terror regime were executed here at the former prison of Plötzensee. What’s particularly impressive is the display of copies of death sentences.
Connections: U Mierendorffplatz, bus 123, 126
Address: Hüttigpfad, Charlottenburg Tel: +49 (0)30 - 3443226 fax=
Forschungs- und Gedenkstätte Normannstraße (Normannenstraße Research and Memorial Centre) The former headquarters, ot the Stasi, The East german secret police, it is now a centre for examining the history of the GDR’s political system and the organisations that oppressed its citizens. The centre is also called the "Stasi Museum". Along with the office of former Stasi boss Erich Mielke, various items of political interest are on display. Admission: 5DM, groups of 11 or more 4DM, red. 2,50DM.
Connections: U+S Frankfurter Allee, U Magdalenenstr., S Lichtenberg
Address: Ruschestr. 103, Haus 1, Lichtenberg Tel: +49 (0)30 - 5536854 fax=
Email: Openings= Tu+Fr 11am -6pm, Sa+Su 2pm- 6pm
Denkmal zur Bücherverbrennung (Memorial of the Book-Burning) The memorial commemorates the public burning of books by the Nazis on 10 May 1933. In the middle of Bebelplatz, a glass window in the ground with glaring white empty shelves beneath it symbolises the limitation of every kind of inellectual freedom under National Socialism.
Connections: U Französische Str. / Bus 100
Address: Bebelplatz, Mitte Tel: fax=
Email: Openings=
Deportations-Mahnmal (Deportations Monument) A goods wagon on this site commemorates the deportation of 55.000 Berlin Jews between 1941 and 1945.
Connections: Tiergarten U Hansaplatz
Address: Levetzowstr. 7-8 Tel: fax=
Email: Openings=
Gedenkstätte Berliner Mauer (Berlin Wall Memorial) Very little is left of the original Wall, most of the wall segments are given to museums all over the world or sold. Bernauer Straße separates the districts Wedding and Mitte. Until 1989 the Wall ran along here. The documentation centre on the history of the division of Berlin was opened in November 1999. It shows the political background and people’s individual experience of being permanently faced with the wall in the daily life.
Connections: U Bernauerstr., S Nordbahnhof, bus 328.
Address: Bernauer Str., Wedding Tel: +49 (0)30 - 4635106
Email: Openings=We-Su 10am -5pm, admission free
Topographie des Terrors (Topography of Terror) The Prince Albert Site was once the location of the headquarters of the Gestapo, the SS and the main Office for the Security of the Reich. The exhibition shows the history of these Nazi institutions and of the site. A new "international documentation and meeting centre" is due to open here at the end of 2001. Until then the exhibition is being displayed in the open air on the site.
Connections: U+S Potsdamer Platz, U Kochstr., S Anhalter Bahnhof
Address: Niederkirchnerstr. 8, next to Martin-Gropius-Bau, Kreuzberg Tel: +49 (0)30 - 24846703 fax=
Email: Openings= daily 10am -6pm, admission free
Haus am Checkpoint Charlie Permanent and special exhibition cover topics in German history after 1945, especially the division of Berlin, the building of the Wall and its influence on daily life. Documentary film shows and especially talks with eyewitnesses give a memorable picture of the relationship between the two parts of Germany during the Cold War. Admission: adults 8DM, school pupils and students 5DM, groups of 10 or more 4,50DM
Connections: U Kochstr., bus 129
Address: Friedrichstr. 43-44, Kreuzberg Tel: +49 (0)30 - 2537250 fax=
Email: Openings= daily 9am -10pm
Deutsch-russisches Museum Berlin-Karlshorst The former officers’ mess of the pilots school. This was where the German army signed the document of unconditional surrender in 1945. Four years later the first government of the GDR was awarded full state powers here. From 1967 the Soviet military used this historic building as a "museum on the great patriotic war". Since 1990 it has been a museum on the history of the remarkable German-Soviet relationschip.
Connections: S Karlshorst, bus 396
Address: Zwieseler Str. 4 Tel: +49 (0)30 - 50150810 fax=
Email: Openings= Tu-Su 10am -6pm, admission free
Anne Frank Zentrum A small exhibition on Anne Frank’s life offers you the chance to explore themes like National Socialism, the Holocaust, racism and Jewsih history. The Centre also runs the project "Blind Faith -In Hiding at Hackescher Markt". During the Nazi period the brushmaker Otto Weidt hid a Jewish family in the back room of his workshop for blind peopl, e.
Connections: S Oranienburger Str.
Address: OranienburgerStr. 26, Mitte Tel: +49 (0)30 - 30872988 fax=
Email: Openings=Mo-Fr 9am -3pm, Admission: 3DM, red 1DM
Siegessäule (Victory Column) The 70-metre-high column is crowned by the gilded victory goddess, nicknamed "Goldelse" -Golden Lizzie -by the Berliners. Among other things, she has decorated the cover of certain books. Since Love Parade has been held in the Tiergarten she's become its "landmark" -let love rule! Incidentally, the gun barrels around the column are genuine. Below are the Austrian, then the French and on top the Danish. Admission: 2DM, red. 1DM.
Connection: Bus 100, 187, 341
Address: Straße des 17. Juni Tel: fax=
Neue Wache (New Royal Guardhouse) In 1958 the GDR set up a "memorial for the victims of fascism and militarism", in this Schinkel building. Since 1993 it has been the central German memorial for "the victims of war and tyranny". But much more impressive than any memorial name is the unlit interior with its open ceiling and the pieta by Käthe Kollwitz.
Address: Unter den Linden 4 Tel: fax=
Email: Opening Hours:
Gedenkstätte Haus der Wannsee-Konferenz (Memorial House of the Wannsee Conference) This villa in its idyllic setting at Wannsee was the place where the organisational details of the deportation and murder of the Jews of Europe were worked out. (The basic decision to eliminate the Jews had already been taken) An exhibition documents the conference, its historical background and its consequences. The educational section of the memorial centre offers daylong study courses on National Socialism and Jewish history. Take bus 114.
Address: Am Großen Wannsee 56-58, Zehlendorf Tel: +49 (0)30 - 8050010 Openings=Mo-Fr 10am -6pm, Sa+Su 2pm -6pm, admission free
Brecht-Weigel-Gedenkstätte (Brecht-Weigel memorial Centre) The last living and working quarters of Bertolt Brecht and Helene Weigel.
Connections: U Oranienburger Tor
Address: Chausseestr. 125, Mitte Tel: +49 (0)30 - 2829916 fax=
Email: Openings= Tu-Fr 10am -noon, Th 5pm -7pm, Sa 9.30am -2pm, Su 11am -6pm
Bundeskanzler-Willy-Brandt-Stiftung (Federal Chancellor-Willy Brandt Foundation) The permanent exhibition in Schöneberg Town Hall, "Fighting for freedom -Willy Brandt 1913-1992" shows life and work of the politician Willy Brandt. Regular guided tours: Th, Sa and Su 2pm and 4pm or by appointment.
Connections: U Rathaus Schöneberg
Address: Rathaus Schöneberg, John-F.-Kennedy-Platz, Schöneberg Tel: +49 (0)30 - 78770711 fax=
Gedenkstätte, Deutscher Widerstand (Memori, al of German Resistance) In 1953 a memorial centre with a courtyard of honour was opened in the Bendlerblock, the former headquarters of the army high comma, nd. This was the centre of the attempt to overthrow Hitler on 20 July 1944. Since 1989 the building has housed a permanent exhibition documenting the many different kinds of resistance to National Socialism. You can go on guided tours free of charge here -please book in advance.
Connections: U Kurfürstenstr., bus 129.
Address: Stauffenbergstr. 13-14, Tiergarten Tel: +49 (0)30 - 26995000 fax=
Email: Openings=Mo-Fr 9am -6pm, Th 9am -8pm, Sa & Su 10am -6pm, admission free
Gedenkstätte Berlin-Hohenschönhausen (Hohenschönhausen Memorial Centre) From 1945 to 1989 this was the site of various institutions of the despotic justice system for punishing resistance and opposition in the Soviet occupied zone and the GDR. It was a prison, a detention centre, a centre for political prosecutions and a special Soviet prison camp, the ce, ntral Soviet remand prison and the central secret police remand prison in the GDR. Today the memorial centre organises events, seminars and guided tours. Tours with eyewitnesses or former political prisoners should be booked in advance.
connections: S Landsberger Allee, tram 5, 6, 7, 15, 17,
Address: Genslerstr. 66, Hohenschönhausen Tel: +49 (0)30 - 98608230 fax=
Email: Openings=8.30am -4.30pm, Sa till 3pm, guided tours Mo-Th 1pm, Fr+Sa 11am +1pm
Gedenkstätte Plötzensee (Plötzensee Memorial Centre) A place of peace and remembrance. Victims of the Nazi terror regime were executed here at the former prison of Plötzensee. What’s particularly impressive is the display of copies of death sentences.
Connections: U Mierendorffplatz, bus 123, 126
Address: Hüttigpfad, Charlottenburg Tel: +49 (0)30 - 3443226 fax=
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