Traces of National Socialism in Berlin

This center for the documentation of Nazi crimes attracts hundreds of thousands of visitors every year.  more

The German Resistance Memorial Center is a place of remembrance, political education, active learning, documentation and research.  more

The House of the Wannsee Conference is dedicated to documenting the Wannsee Conference and the genocide of the Jews of Europe.  more

The Plötzensee Memorial commemorates the victims of the unjust sentences of the National Socialist judiciary and is a European place of quiet remembrance.  more

The Sachsenhausen Memorial provides information about the history of the former concentration camp at the authentic site.  more

The Silent Heroes Memorial in Stauffenbergstraße commemorates those people who helped, saved and supported Jews during the Nazi regime.  more

The Sinti and Roma memorial in Tiergarten commemorates the Sinti and Roma murdered under National Socialism.  more

The Platform 17 Memorial at Grunewald Station commemorates the thousands of Jews who were deported from Berlin on Deutsche Reichsbahn trains from this platform.  more

During the Köpenick Week of Blood in June 1933, around 500 people were abducted and tortured by the SA. The memorial is part of the historical reappraisal of this chapter.  more

Schöneweide is home to the last largely preserved Nazi forced labour camp in Berlin, one of more than 3,000 that once existed in the city.  more

The Soviet Memorial in Treptower Park is the largest monument to the fallen soldiers of the Red Army in Germany.  more

Adolf Hitler's "seizure of power" leads to the National Socialists coming to power and the end of democracy in Germany and Berlin.  more

The Berlin garrison capitulates on May 2, six days before the end of the Second World War in Europe. Large parts of the city are in ruins.  more

The initialing of the Berlin agreement on September 3 makes possible a number of practical arrangements benefiting the people.  more