Berlin Bunker Tours – Cold War

The Berlin Bunkers area is a collection of tunnels and bunkers located deep underground which have played a key role in the city’s history.

Two pre-booked guided tours are available:

Subways, Bunkers, Cold War: preparations for nuclear war
Under the Berlin Wall: stories of those who tunnelled to freedom

Berlin Wall Memorial & Documentation Centre

The Berlin Wall Memorial and Documentation Centre contains the last piece of the Berlin Wall preserved within its original grounds at Bernauer Strasse, an area situated at the border between East and West.

The facility shows how the border facilities were constructed and imparts to visitors a lasting impression of the construction that had at one time completely divided a nation. The viewable exhibit in the Documentation Centre shows the 1961 history of the Wall’s construction.

Berlin Wall Panorama by Asisi

Yadegar Asisi’s THE WALL offers a visualisation of how mundane, and at the same time how gruesome, living in the shadow of the Wall was. Viewed from a 4-metre-high platform you are transported to an autumn day to West Berlin in the 1980s with a direct view of the border fortifications and the death strip of the GDR.

In an accompanying photo exhibition, private photographs from witnesses of those times, showing everyday life with the Wall and scenes from the time when the Wall fell provide a fascinating documentary insight.

DDR Museum Tour

The DDR Museum is one of the most visited museums in Berlin. With good reason: the museum deals exclusively with life in the former German Democratic Republic, the permanent exhibition is all about interaction with its motto being ‘history to touch and feel’ with visitors entering 1:20 scale model of a typical GDR prefabricated high-rise estate.

Information and exhibits are stowed away and hidden in drawers, closets and behind doors. The kitchen even still has the cooking smells of the time. It is the only museum, which concentrates on everyday life in the DDR and one of the most interactive museums in the world making it a fantastic learning experience for students.

Holocaust Memorial

A 4.7-acre site covered with 2711 concrete slabs paying tribute to the Jews lost in the holocaust. An emotional and imposing addition to the landscape of Central Berlin.

Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp

Built by prisoners from the Emsland Camps in the summer of 1936, the two remaining barracks of the Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp now stand as a museum, a memorial hall and cinema where a film about the history of the camp is shown hourly. It is estimated that 30-35,000 victims died at Sachsenhausen however, some put the estimate higher.

The concentration camp has been preserved as a living memory to the events that happened there, holding significant importance for its proximity to central Berlin in comparison to the camps that followed it.

Stasi Museum

Located in the former headquarters of East Germany’s secret police, the Stasi Museum offers students a powerful insight into life behind the Iron Curtain. Visiting the preserved offices of Stasi chief Erich Mielke, groups learn how one of the most repressive intelligence organisations in history operated through surveillance, informants and fear, with original rooms and spy equipment bringing this crucial chapter of Cold War history vividly to life.

Stasi Prison

Originally run by the Soviet authorities and later taken over by the Stasi, this prison became East Germany’s main site for detention and interrogation during the Cold War. Thousands of political prisoners passed through this highly secret location, which was hidden from maps and public view. Today, exhibitions and powerful guided tours – often led by former inmates – give students first‑hand insight into political repression, surveillance and life under the GDR regime.

Topography of Terror

Located on the former site of the Gestapo and SS headquarters, the Topography of Terror provides students with a powerful and thought‑provoking insight into how Nazi rule and repression were organised and enforced from the heart of Berlin. Through detailed exhibitions, photographs and documents, students learn about the role of the Gestapo, SS and security services, with a second permanent exhibition focusing on the role Berlin played as the capital of the ‘Third Reich”.

The Topography of Terror is one of the most frequented memorial sites and museums in Berlin. The main exhibition and the tours of the grounds or the trenches give a fantastic historical insight into this time.

River Spree Cruise

A cruise along the River Spree flows through old and new Berlin and is a great way to see the city from a different angle. The Historical Tour is a one hour round trip; highlights include Palace of Republic, Berlin Cathedral, Museum Island and the Reichstag.

TV Tower

From 207 metres high you can look out over the entire city with its large number of tourist attractions: you can see the Reichstag, the Brandenburg Gate and the Main Railway Station from here, as well as the Olympic Stadium, Museum Island and Potsdamer Platz.

Panoramapunkt

The fastest elevator in Europe takes you to the Panoramapunkt viewing platform. From a height of 100 metres, there is an excellent view over the east and west of Berlin. No other viewing point in Berlin offers such a fascinating view over the entire city, as well as a view of German history. The Panoramapunkt on the top of the Kollhoff-Tower is located directly on the line of the former Berlin Wall at Potsdamer Platz.