The tour starts here with a history lesson. Hackescher Markt has good rail connections and it's close to Museum Island our next stop...

Image: "<a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Berlin_-_Bierg%C3%A4rten_Hackescher_Markt_%2B_S-Bahnhof.jpg" target="_blank">Berlin - Biergärten Hackescher Markt + S-Bahnhof</a>" by <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pedelecs" target="_blank">Pedelecs</a>&nbsp;is licensed under&nbsp;<a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en" target="_blank">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>

History of Berlin

This is Berlin's Kultur Central ! The museums and galleries on the island are a globally fabulous collection... particularly the amazing and huge pieces of archaelogy in the Pergamon Museum... take time to come back here at the end of the tour.

Museum Island

This is a strange mix of Baroque-style over-the-top architecture but with strong Protestant leanings too... most unusual to mix Baroque excesses and Protestant simplicity.

Berliner Dom

Unter den Linden is the great, tree-lined avenue that defines Berlin. It runs from the Brandenburg Gate east into what used to be East Berlin and to where they are rebuilding the old Stadt Schloss.

Image: "<a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Unter_den_Linden_im_Herbst.jpg" target="_blank">Unter den Linden im Herbst</a>"&nbsp;by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/pjgardner/" target="_blank">Jess &amp; Peter</a>&nbsp;is licensed under&nbsp;<a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.en" target="_blank">CC BY 2.0</a>

Unter den Linden

Berlin has more than one opera house... you'll hear why. Whenever this one was bombed during World War II opera-loving Adolf Hitler would have it rebuilt...

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German State Opera

The Nazis would not allow writings by Communists, Jews and what they considered other "subversive" writers in libraries. This library square was chosen to have a bonfire of liberal thought...

Image: "<a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Buecherverbrennung_Denkmal_Bebelplatz_Berlin.jpg" target="_blank">Buecherverbrennung Denkmal Bebelplatz Berlin</a>"&nbsp;by <a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benutzer:Jensen" target="_blank">Jensen</a>&nbsp;is licensed under&nbsp;<a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en" target="_blank">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>

Book Burning Memorial at Bebelplatz

This is the most iconic image of Berlin... until 1989 it was a prisoner to the Communist regime of East Germany which westerners could not easily visit.

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Brandenburg Gate

The Reichstag was built as Germany's parliament building after the country was unified in the late nineteenth century. It was a deliberate arson attack in early 1933 which gave the Nazis an early propaganda coup against democracy.

The Reichstag

The Holocaust Memorial remembers the six million Jews killed in concentration camps by the Nazi regime. But it makes no mention of many gipsies, socialists and liberals also killed. It can be a moving experience wandering among the towering concrete blocks.

Image: "<a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Berlin.Memorial_to_the_Murdered_Jews_of_Europe_003.JPG" target="_blank">Berlin.Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe 003</a>"&nbsp;by <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:JoJan" target="_blank">JoJan</a>&nbsp;is licensed under&nbsp;<a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en" target="_blank">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>

Holocaust Memorial

This is where Hitler remained underground and protected from Allied bombing as World War II came to an end. He eventually took his own life as Russian troops storming Berlin closed-in on his final refuge...

Image: "<a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Place_Of_Hitler_Bunker_2007.jpg" target="_blank">Place Of Hitler Bunker 2007</a>"&nbsp;by <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Zvucini&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" target="_blank">Zvucini</a>&nbsp;is licensed under&nbsp;<a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en" target="_blank">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>

Hitler's Bunker

Most of the Berlin Wall has been demolished as the city rebuilds after its division into East and West for nearly thirty years... This is the longest surviving section in the centre of the city...

Image: "<a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Berlin_Wall_(15305565944).jpg" target="_blank">Berlin Wall (15305565944)</a>"&nbsp;by <a href="https://www.flickr.com/people/87296837@N00" target="_blank">Tony Webster</a>&nbsp;is licensed under&nbsp;<a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.en" target="_blank">CC BY 2.0</a>

Berlin Wall

American president John Kennedy visited Berlin earlier in the year he was assassinated. He was bitterly opposed to the division of Berlin by the Communist East German government. His visit was hugely popular with West Germans, but he made a bit of a linguistic error when he said (in German) that all free men were truly citizens of Berlin...

Image:&nbsp;"<a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kennedy_in_Berlin.jpg" target="_blank">Kennedy in Berlin</a>"&nbsp;by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_Office_of_the_President_of_the_United_States" target="_blank">Executive Office of the President of the United States</a>&nbsp;is licensed under&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/public_domain" target="_blank">public domain</a>.

John F Kennedy's Berlin Visit

Checkpoint Charlie was one of the crossing points into East Berlin during the communist years. Nowadays actors in American uniforms re-enact the scene for tourists to photograph. But it remains an iconic part of Berlin history...

Image:&nbsp;"<a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Checkpoint_Charlie_Berlin.jpg" target="_blank">Checkpoint Charlie Berlin</a>"&nbsp;by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/80018218@N00" target="_blank">Adrian Purser</a>&nbsp;is licensed under&nbsp;<a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/deed.en" target="_blank">CC BY-SA 2.0</a>

Checkpoint Charlie

This tour will&nbsp;cover&nbsp;all the main places from Berlin's early history and through the growth of Prussia under Frederick the Great - and on through the Nazi period -and then the Cold War when Berlin became a global focus. It's all in here from the Brandenburg Gate to the Reichstag, Hitler's bunker, the Holocaust Memorial, and ending at Checkpoint Charlie.

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