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The Berlin Wall Memorial on Bernauer Strasse is the most important place in Berlin to understand what the Wall really meant. Stretching for about 0.9 miles (1.4 km) along the former border strip, it preserves an original section of the Wal…
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Berlin
The East Side Gallery in Berlin is the longest surviving stretch of the Berlin Wall and one of the largest open-air galleries in the world. Running for 0.8 miles (1,316 m) along Mühlenstrasse in the Friedrichshain district, it is covered w…
Historic sites & memorials
Berlin
Checkpoint Charlie in Berlin was the most famous crossing point between East and West during the Cold War, and today it is one of the city's most visited sights. On Friedrichstrasse, where the American and Soviet sectors met from 1961 to 1…
Historic sites & memorials
Berlin
The Topography of Terror in Berlin is a free documentation center on the exact site where Nazi Germany ran its machinery of persecution. From 1933 to 1945 this block housed the headquarters of the Gestapo, the SS leadership, and the Reich…
Historic sites & memorials
Berlin
The Berlin-Hohenschönhausen Memorial is the former central remand prison of the Stasi, East Germany's secret police. Political prisoners were interrogated and psychologically broken here, in a restricted zone that did not appear on East Be…
Historic sites & memorials
Berlin
Teufelsberg in Berlin is one of the capital's most unusual attractions: a hill built from World War II rubble, topped by a former Cold War listening station with huge white radar domes, Europe's largest street art gallery and a panoramic v…