Berlin Wall tours and activities
Don't miss out on this award-winning museum for a fun-filled visit to understand life under the dictatorship of the former DDR government.Wh...
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Exciting, moving and emotional. The Wall Museum offers an exhibition that spans an audiovisual arc from the German division and construction...
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For 12 years Berlin was the capital of the Third Reich. Hitler’s reign began in 1933, spread across Europe and collapsed with the Battle of ...
4 hours
Unmistakably, the Berlin Wall was the defining symbol of the Cold War and marked the line in the sand between democracy and dictatorship, ca...
2 hours
Get the best of Berlin while saving time and money. The Berlin WelcomeCard provides you with: - Free travel on the public transport network ...
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The art of Yadegar Asisi, German-Persian architect and artist, is unique. With his "pano-meters" - 360-degree panorama paintings in 1:1 scal...
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The Berlin WelcomeCard with Museum Island ticket is your key to the city, providing not only entrance to the art collections on the famous M...
72 hours
In less than 5km, you will visit some of the most historically important sites of the 20th century, not just in Europe but in the whole worl...
4 hours
Discover Berlin with a combination ticket. Get access to hop-on hop-off buses and boats for 24 or 48 hours to see all of the German capital’...
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Ostpolitik, DDR, Stasi, Ostalgie, Trabi and the Wall. Do these names and acronyms take you back to famous and dramatic images from the recen...
2 hours
See Berlin with a hop-on hop-off tour, listening to an interesting audio guide available in 20 languages. Use the buses as a convenient mean...
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Get to know all about Berlin's recent and fascinating history while walking along the remains of the Wall or passing by the Brandenburg Gate...
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The inside story
The Berlin Wall was not only a symbol of the division of a city and a country, but the entire world. Europe, still scarred by the appalling tragedy of the Second World War, became theater of a new, terrible conflict which, though it wasn’t fought with weapons, caused deep lacerations. The Cold War between the two super powers of the time, the United States and the Soviet Union, divided the world into two blocs: the pro-American West and the pro-Soviet East. Germany was in the middle and paid the highest price.
The construction of the Berlin Wall, which started on August 13, 1961, was decreed by the government of East Germany to stop the citizens of the GDR leaving towards the more prosperous West. As the west didn’t want to put themselves in a weak position, separation became a fact.
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