Trains during the cold war.
During the (1st) Cold War, Berlin was divided into 4 parts. British, American, French and Russian. Between the Russian zone and the other zones was the border (the Berlin wall), but also around the...
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Stasi Prison Berlin Hohenschönhausen
The old Stasi prison of Berlin still stands in the Lichtenberg district of Berlin. Built in 1938 as a factory and inaugurated in May 1945 by the Russian NKWD as a camp for “political prisoners”.
Stasi Headquarters in Berlin
The Ministerium für Staatssicherheit (the Stasi or MfS) was the internal security service in the German Democratic Republic (GDR) and its headquarters was in the Lichtenberg district on Normannenstraße. Today it is used as a Stasi Museum.
Tränenpalast - exit hall at the former Friedrichstrasse railway station DDR border crossing
Next to Friedrichstraße (Berlin) station is the old entrance building to the platforms for the tracks that went from West to East Berlin
Track 17 Berlin Grunewald
From October 18, 1941 until February 1945, this freight station was one of the most important deportations locations of the Jews from Berlin. A total of 35 trains carrying 17,000 Jews left from platform 17 (German: Gleis 17) directly to Auschwitz. By the end of the war, more than 50,000 Jews had been deported through this station.
Checkpoint Bravo
Most of you are familiar with Checkpoint Charlie… (The guardhouse in Berlin), Checkpoint Alpha might just be known (Marienborn Helmstedt), but Checkpoint Bravo? Most people don't know that. To make it a bit clearer, a short intro...
Forced labor camp in Niederschöneweide / Treptow-Köpenick Berlin
In the late summer of 1944, 7.6 million foreign civilian workers and prisoners of war had been put to work on German soil… most of them under duress. In 1944 this slave labor made up a quarter of ...
The currywurst museum….
In Berlin there was a real… Currywurst museum! Yes, it is almost impossible, but let's be honest… there is hardly anything better than a currywurst.
Military History Airfield Museum Berlin-Gatow
Gatow Airport was built in 1935. The Luftkriegschule 2 of the Luftwaffe was located here from January 15, 1940. In May 1945, Gatow was occupied by the Red Army. Berlin was split into four sectors and in July 1945 the airport was handed over to the British Royal Air Force.
Tempelhof airport and the cold war.
Tempelhof Airport was once one of the largest airports in Europe, but it has been closed since 2008. It played a major role in the cold war and relatively much of it remains ...
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