The rise of Nazi Germany and WW2.

Duration

4 hours

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On this private guided tour you will learn about the rise and fall of the Nazi party, the immense Battle of Berlin, visit thought provoking memorials to the victims of the Third Reich, and visit the site where Hitler and his henchmen made decisions that would shake the world.

Unknown to the casual tourist, many of Berlin's buildings carry the secrets of a dark past. In a unique and fascinating tour, our dedicated guides open up this hidden history for you.

Nowhere else can you experience a tour like this simply because no other place has a history quite like this.

Adolf Hitler didn’t simply take Germany by force, the Nazi Party were voted into parliament. During the 1932 German elections, nearly 14 million Germans voted for Hitler, the Nazis, and fascism.

It’s a moment of history that many do not like to acknowledge, however, the rise of fascism in Germany started with a democratic election. The population came out in their millions and elected to give the Reichstag, the German House of Parliament in Berlin to Adolf Hitler and the Nazis — and they believed they were making the correct decision.

It took a fire in the Reichstag, the death of a president, and a night of executions to make the Nazis' power absolute – but that power originated with the will of the people. Democracy died and fascism rose because the people voted for it.

On this private guided tour we tell you the story of how it began, how it was supported and eventually vanquished in 1945.

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We meet you at your accommodation or chosen meeting point.

Tour itinerary

• Site of the New Reich Chancellery – Where Hitler’s headquarters once stood, and where parts of his bunker remain today.
• Site of Hitler’s Bunker – The air raid shelter that became the center of the Nazi regime until the last week of World War II in Europe and where Hitler took his own life. Here we discuss the last days of the Nazi regime and of Adolf Hitler.
• Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe – This complex, thought provoking site is the central Germany memorial to the 6 million Jews murdered by the Nazis in concentration and death camps around Europe.
• The German House of Parliament. – Infamous due to the fire that enabled Hitler to take total control. It was fiercely fought over during the Battle of Berlin between the Germans and the Soviets. Learn how the Nazis came to power and eventually led the world into WWII.
• Site of SS & Gestapo Headquarters - Hear about the atrocities committed by the SS and Gestapo and learn how they helped Hitler enact his reign of terror on the grounds of where their headquarters once stood.
• Soviet War Memorial – Erected by the Soviet Union to commemorate their fallen, particularly the 80,000 soldiers of the Soviet Armed Forces who died fighting Nazi Germany during the Battle of Berlin.
• Joseph Goebbels Propaganda Ministry and Hermann Goering’s Luftwaffe Headquarters – One of the few Nazi buildings remaining in Berlin.
• The Berlin Jewish Quarter –The Old Synagogue, and the road once referred to as Tolerance Street, however later became known as Death Street.
• Monument to the Roma / Sinti – A central monument erected to remember the 500,000 Roma and Sinti (Gypsies) murdered by Nazi Germany.