Alighting at Potzdamer Place, a major junction of roads, transport hub for trains and buses, shopping complexes and innovative architecture, it is also the centre of entertainment.
Potzdamer Platz outside the S Bahn city railway
Potzdamer Platz
Using our map and the very helpful blue tourist attractions direction signs, we made our way to a section of the Berlin Wall and the Topography of Terror, a museum and previous location of the Gestapo and SS Headquarters. A free attraction, the open air section of the museum runs the length of the wall and provides information and photographs on the rise of the Nazi Party and Adolf Hitler. More documentation is location in the museum building that is built on the site of SS Headquarters.
The remnants of the Berlin Wall
The open air museum that follows the walls and foundations of the SS headquarters
The Rise of Power of Hitler
Hitler holding court
Colonel Claus Schenk Count von Stauffenberg who tried to assassinate Hitler with a bomb at the Wolfs Lair. Can you see a resemblance to Tom Cruise for the movie Valkyrie?
One of the major cons of the Nazi party against the German community. This shows a poster for Volkswagon from the Nazi organisation saying 'Strength Through Joy'. From 1935 hundreds of thousands of Germans saved for a VW that cost 990 Reich marks. The slogan said "If you want to drive your own car put 5 marks a week in your savings jar." 336,000 saving cards were handed in by people but nobody got the car. It was only built for the serving German Wehrmacht.
The Topography of Terror Museum and the grounds on which the SS Headquarters was located
Inside the Topography of Terror Museum
Files of German soldiers who were tried for war crimes
Section of the Berlin Wall at Gedenkstatte Berliner Mauer - death wall, north of the Topography of Terror
It was at this place that over 100 people were killed trying to cross the wall from east to west.
The memorial with faces of those who had died
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