Third Reich and the Holocaust in Berlin Private Guided Tour

Meet your guide In front of the Typisch Berlin cafe, Wilhelmstraße 42, 10963 Berlin. Please do not enter the cafe, it is only the meeting point and the staff is not informed about the tour.

Our tour will begin with a visit to the Topography of Terror, an impressive museum that offers a comprehensive and detailed account of the Nazi Party's rise to power and the atrocities committed during the Holocaust. As we make our way through the exhibitions displayed in the former headquarters of the Gestapo and the SS,, your Expert Guide will provide you with insights into the key events and individuals that shaped this dark period of German history.

We will continue our tour through the Old Town passing Potsdamer Platz, which is where the boundaries of the American, British and Soviet Allied zones collided when they liberated the city.

We will explore and pay our respects at the famous Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, the six million Jewish victims of the Holocaust.

We will also see the Brandenburg Gate, a famous symbol of Berlin that was used by the Nazis as a backdrop for their propaganda rallies, and the Reichstag Building, the former parliament of Germany that was burned down in 1933. Our Third Reich tour will end at the Soviet War Memorial, which is one of several war memorials in Berlin erected by the Soviet Union to commemorate its war soldiers.

You will visit the Friedrichstrasse, one of the most famous streets in Berlin, and see the monument named Trains to Life - Trains to Death, which commemorates children who were murdered during the Holocaust.

We will explore the streets of Spandauer Vorstadt and the Jewish Quarter, where the surviving New Synagogue is located.

We will also learn more about Jewish history on a visit to Otto Weidt's Blindenwerkstatt, a museum that tells the story of Otto Weidt who employed mostly blind and deaf Jewish workers in his workshop during the II World War.