Stories of resistance and compliance during the Third Reich.
Visit the ruins of Himmler's SS and Gestapo HQ, the Resistance Museum, and the Reichstag, hearing stories of resistance and compliance during Hitler's reign of terror.
This private tour visits the ruins of Himmler's SS and Gestapo headquarters, the Resistance Museum (which once housed the German Military High Command), and the Reichstag, seeing the remains of the 'Thousand-Year Reich' and hearing real stories of resistance.
A popular starting point — every Voyzo itinerary is fully customizable, so we'll shape the order and stops around your group.
Meet your guide at a central Berlin location.
See the actual site of Himmler's wartime headquarters.
Learn about those who opposed the Third Reich.
Back to your hotel, home, or the airport — whenever your day wraps up.
Visit the ruins of Himmler's SS and Gestapo HQ, the Resistance Museum, and the Reichstag, hearing stories of resistance and compliance during Hitler's reign of terror. This private tour visits the ruins of Himmler's SS and Gestapo headquarters, the Resistance Museum (which once housed the German Military High Command), and the Reichstag, seeing the remains of the 'Thousand-Year Reich' and hearing real stories of resistance.
The site now known as the Topography of Terror, on Niederkirchnerstrasse, was the operational center of the Nazi police state from 1933 to 1945 — the headquarters of the Gestapo and the SS Reich Security Main Office, with desks used by Heinrich Himmler and Reinhard Heydrich, and a prison on-site where Gestapo officers interrogated and tortured detainees. Allied bombing largely destroyed the buildings in early 1945, and the ruins were cleared after the war; an exhibition on the site has run since 1987, and the Berlin Wall itself later ran along the same street for nearly three decades.
The German Resistance Memorial Center, inside the Bendlerblock, tells the other half of the story: this was the headquarters of the Army High Command, and the site where Claus von Stauffenberg and fellow officers planned the 20 July 1944 plot to assassinate Hitler — and where several of them were executed by firing squad the same night it failed. A permanent exhibition on German resistance to Nazism has run there since 1968.
The Reichstag, meanwhile, carries the opening chapter: its 1933 fire, a month after Hitler took power, gave the regime its pretext for emergency rule. Your guide covers all of this directly and factually, with space for the harder questions it tends to raise.
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