Third Reich Berlin
Quick Overview
Description
Time
Choose your start time.
Duration
2, 3, 4, 6 or 8 hours
Meeting Point
The lobby of your hotel
Prices
2 hours
€259
3 hours
€319
4 hours
€419
6 hours
€589
8 hours
€699
Highlights
- Get picked up from your hotel and prepare to delve into various aspects of Nazi-era Berlin with your professional tour guide.
- Learn about the rise of National Socialism and everyday life under a dictatorship.
- Head to the Reichstag and learn how the fire of 1933 paved the way for Hitler to seize power.
- Go to the German Resistance Memorial Centre, where the instigators of the failed 20 July plot to assassinate Hitler were executed.
- Visit historic Tempelhof Airport, an impressive example of Third Reich architecture.
- Take in the imposing Olympiastadion, the stadium built by the Nazis for the 1936 Olympics.
- See Platform 17, a massive memorial commemorating the deportation of some 50,000 Jews from Berlin.
- Walk between the stelae of the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe.
- Gaze up at the monumental Soviet War Memorial in Tiergarten.
- As you visit the location of the Führerbunker, hear a gripping account of the Battle of Berlin and Hitler’s suicide in 1945.
Whether you choose a 2, 3, 4, 6 or 8-hour tour, your personal guide will meet you at your hotel before leading you through Berlin’s dramatic past. Discover how the Weimar Republic collapsed and the key events that enabled Hitler’s rise to power in 1933.
On this five-star experience, hear powerful stories of resistance, collaboration, and everyday life under Nazi rule, while exploring surviving sites of the so-called “Thousand-Year Reich.” See the Air Force Ministry, where Goering directed the war effort, the former Propaganda Ministry of Goebbels, and the Topography of Terror, built on the ruins of the SS and Gestapo headquarters.
At the site of the New Reich Chancellery, your guide will recount Hitler’s final days in his bunker and explore how Germany confronts and memorialises this difficult past today.
Continue to the Bendler Block, now the German Resistance Memorial, where you’ll hear the gripping story of Claus von Stauffenberg and the failed assassination attempt of 1944.
Follow the path of Soviet troops during the final battle for Berlin and visit the imposing Soviet War Memorial, honouring the 80,000 Red Army soldiers who fell in 1945. Stand before the Reichstag, a building at the centre of German history, from empire to dictatorship to modern democracy.
Depending on your chosen tour length, you may also visit the 1936 Olympic Stadium, where Jesse Owens defied Nazi ideology, or explore Tempelhof Airport, a vast relic of the era now transformed into one of Berlin’s most unique public spaces.
At the end of your tour, your guide will be happy to offer recommendations to help you make the most of your time in Berlin.
Example Itinerary
The following list of sites is intended to give you an idea of what you can expect to see on this tour. Please note that our exact route may vary on the day, depending on circumstances and your hotel pick-up point.
- The Reichstag, where a dramatic arson attack allowed the Nazis to consolidate their influence
- The site of Hitler’s bunker and suicide – a blow-by-blow account of how the last days of the war played out underground
- Soviet War Memorial in Tiergarten – a curved colonnade flanked by the first tanks to reach the city
- The imposing Nazi building that housed Goering’s Air Force Ministry
- The Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe
- The Memorial to Homosexuals Persecuted Under Nazism
- The Memorial to the Sinti and Roma Victims of National Socialism
- The building out of which Joseph Goebbels ran the Nazis’ Propaganda Ministry
- The Bendler Block – the former seat of the High Command of the Armed Forces during WWII now commemorates the German Resistance.
- The Memorial to the Victims of the Nazi Euthanasia Programme
- The Topography of Terror exhibition – former HQ of Himmler’s feared SS and secret police
- Anhalter Bahnhof – one of the train stations from which Berlin’s Jews were deported by the Nazis
- Railway Bunker – WWII air-raid shelter
- Olympiastadion – Hitler personally reviewed the plans for this stadium built for the 1936 Olympics
- Tempelhof Airport – built by the Nazi regime to showcase their architectural and technical prowess
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