Stasi Museum

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Choose the validity period you want, based on how long you will stay. Then, buy your Berlin WelcomeCard to enjoy free entry to more than 30 attractions, activities, and museums. Get over 150 discounts on tours, restaurants, bars, and more. Ride a hop-on hop-off bus around the city for free. Children travel for free on public transport with an adult who holds a card, so they don't need their own public transport tickets. Get a children's WelcomeCard so the kids can enjoy free entry to the same attractions as the adult. Have fun exploring the best landmarks in Berlin and save money.

Explore the most important sites related to the Third Reich in Berlin on a half-day walking tour, and learn about life in the city under National Socialism. Starting with the Treaty of Versailles through to the Weimar Republic, your guide will analyze details of Hitler's rise to power, as well as the role of some of his leading henchmen, such as Goebbel´s propaganda programs. Pass Memorial to the Sinti and Roma Victims of National Socialism, as you learn about the Nazi’s plans for a future Germania that would be the capital of the world. You will learn about the Berlin - Rome - Tokyo axis in front of the Italian and Japanese embassies, and stroll up Wilhelmstrasse to the Luftwaffe Ministerium (Air Defense Ministry) and Nazi Propaganda Ministry. End at the exact spot where the Führer Chancellery once stood, and hear about Hitler’s final days in his bunker.

See where Berlin was cut in two overnight by the Berlin Wall on the excellent 2-hour walking tour. Experience a time when Berlin was divided into the capitalist West and the communist East. Uncover life in East Germany, where neighbours were encouraged to spy on one another, and escaping across the Berlin Wall was a deadly temptation. Since Germany reuinifed the signs of the old East have slowly but surely been disappearing. Uncover the secrets of old communist Berlin with an expert guide. Ask the tough questions about the secret police, see where escape tunnels were built beneath the Wall, and experience the history of a country that no longer exists. Find out how the Berlin Wall was set up secretly overnight in 1961 on this fascinating walk. See memorials for those who lost their lives trying to get to the West, and discuss what life in East Germany was really like.

What was daily life like behind the Berlin Wall in the postwar GDR? How did the Stasi police operate, and why did German citizens fear them? Skip the lines at the Stasi Museum (Forschungs- und Gedenkstätte Normannenstraße) and learn about the Cold War history and politics in East Berlin from an Expert Guide! Book a 3-hour private tour of the Stasimuseum (Forschungs- und Gedenkstätte Normannenstraße). This tour is ideal for history buffs but also for those who want to learn about communism and what life in East Berlin used to be like before the fall of the Berlin Wall. The tour will begin in Alexanderplatz, a public square in the center of the German Democratic Republic, where the largest demonstration in GDR’s history took place in 1989. From there, you will take public transport to the Stasi Museum - all tickets are included. The Stasi Museum is housed in the original building of the former headquarters of the Ministry of State Security. Inside, you will have the opportunity to take a closer look at how the secret Stasi police operated and see their original spying technology such as bugs and hidden cameras. You will also visit the Ministerial Offices and the office of Erich Mielke, which displays his famous red briefcase, in which he used to keep the most sensitive information. Find out how informants were recruited and how the citizens were spied on and controlled!

This tour follows in the history of the Cold War and takes you on a discovery of an important period that shaped the city of Berlin. Explore the places that defined Berlin during the Cold War, including the Bernauer Strasse Wall Memorial. Discover what it was like to live in a divided city and explore the former ghost stations of the underground lines. Visit the Stasi Museum and find out what methods the secret service used to control the population of East Berlin. See what remains of the Berlin Wall and the infamous Death Strip, learn about why the wall was built, and discover the ingenious ways some Berliners tried to cross the Berlin Wall. You will also learn about why the wall eventually came down, how the city has developed itself since, and what has changed in the lives of Berliners.