WWII Berlin: what you can’t miss

WWII Berlin: memorial plaque Schulenburgring

  • Adress: Schulenburgring 2, Berlin
  • U-Bahn Platz der Luftbrücke

In the late morning of 2 May, General Helmuth Weidling, commander of the German 56th Panzer Corps and the General Tschuikow reached the apartment of Mrs. Anni Goebels. Weidling signed the surrender order to the Berlin garrison. Six days later, the unconditional surrender of the German forces was signed officialy in Berlin-Karlshorst. With this surrender, the Second World War ended in Europe. On the fassafe of the Building a memorial plague remembering that day can be still seen

MUSEUM BERLIN-KARLSHORST

  • Adress: Zwieseler Straße 4, Berlin, Germany
  • S-Bahn 3 Karlshorst +bus 296

Polish War Graves CWGC Berlin

  • Adress: Heerstraße, Berlin
  • S-Bahn 3 Heerstraße

This CWGC cemetery contains the graves of five Polish airmen who fell in the Second World War.

Memorial “Trains to Life – Trains to Death”

  • Adress: Georgenstraße 14/17, Berlin
  • S-Bahn 1 Lichterfelde Süd

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Pallasstrasse Air-Raid Shelter

  • Adress: Pallasstraße 28, 10781 Berlin
  • U-banh Klistpark

In Germany there was particolar type of bunkers called Hochbunkers that were considered really safe against bombing.These Air raid shelters were usually built upwatd and made by concrete blocks. It was considered much easier and cheaper than the underground ones. One of the largest Is the Hochbunkers in Pallasstrasse buildt betwren 1943 and 1945 by slave labours and was used as telegraph and telephone centre. The American tried to male in Blow up but being in the middle of many othet Building they decide to leave It. during the Cold War decide to modernize it, in case the population could need It again. Today the bunkers is partially covered by a moderna building called Pallaseum

Schwerbelastungkörper

  • Adress: General-Pape-Straße 34A, 12101 Berlin,
  • S-Bahn 1 Julius-Leber-Brücke + Bus 104

This building is an example of Albert Speer idea of realising Adolf Hitler’s huge project in Berlin. Hitler wanted to build 2 main roads, one called East-West Axis and the other called North-South Axis to cross Berlin interelly. At the end of the South Axes Hitler wanted to build a gigantic triumphal arch that hadcto be bigger than any other buildings. To test the site of this new monumento, an heavy load-bearing body made of 12 thousand tonnes of concrete was built by French forced labourers, but the project of this big road was never completed.

Memorial SA Prison Papestrasse

  • Adress: Werner-Voß-Damm 54A, 12101 Berlin
  • S-Bahn Südkreuz

One of the last still existing originale Building where the SA (the so called Sturmabteilung) arrested, interrogated and tortured all those that were considered Nazi enemies. About 500 penso s were surelly here.

Fichtebunkers, the Air-Raid Shelter in Fichtestrasse

  • Adress: Fichtestraße 6, 10967 Berlin,
  • U-Bahn Südstern

This bunker was built in an old gasometer that was taken out of service in 1922. Then the Nazi converted it into a 6-level Air-Raid Shelter for 30.000 people. It was built by prisoners of War and forced labourers. Even if It was heavy bombed the bunker survived.