Brandenburger Tor

The neo-gothic Friedrichswerder Church houses busts of significant personages like Goethe, Kant and Humboldt.

Museum Island

The Altes Museum

The Old National Gallery

River Spree on a misty day

The Berliner Dom

At Gendarmenmarkt

The TV Tower

Marx-Engels Forum

Somewhere here must have been Hitler’s bunker where he killed himself after he observed his wife killing herself too. Nowadays  this place is a parking-place.

The Reichstag

Reflections of lost souls

At Bertolt Brecht's home - Chausseestraße

Topography of Terror

Remains of the wall

Between 1933 and 1945 the central institutions of Nazi terror and persecution were located on this site. From here the Nazis coordinated European-wide terror and the genocide of the Jews of Europe.

Symbols

August 1961. With his spectacular jump over the barbed wire, he becomes the symbol of the will to be free. He was only one of 2000 soldiers that fled during the five years following the construction of the Wall.

Checkpoint Charlie (or "Checkpoint C") was the name given by the Western Allies to the best-known Berlin Wall crossing point between East Berlin and West Berlin during the Cold War.

East Side Gallery

The Wall as an art object

Strolling through former East Berlin

Kunsthaus Tacheles : A different arthouse