Historical story

• Embassy of Spain

  In the remodeling of the city of Berlin, the National Socialist regime built several embassies for regimes related to Nazism. In this context, the construction of the new Spanish embassy was completed in 1943. The building was damaged by the Second World War. After the transfer of the German capital

• Embassy of Italy

  One of Hitlers great plans was the reform of Berlin to turn it into a world capital. For this reform, a large number of buildings in the Reichstag area were demolished to make room for Nazi projects. As part of that project, many embassies that were located in this area were moved to other parts of

• Embassy of Japan

  As an ally of Germany, Japan received from the German Reich a new embassy next to the Tiergarten in 1943. The previous embassy was located next to the Reichstag, but due to the great reform of the city that was taking place, the building was demolished. The new embassy was badly damaged during the

• Anhalt Station

  Anhalt station –Anhalter Bahnhof in German - was one of the terminus stations of the city of Berlin. Its construction began in 1839 to house the trains that left for the Anhalt region, south of the capital, from which it takes its name. The station underwent a major renovation at the end of the 19th

• Grunewald Station

  After the night of broken glass, on November 9, 1938, German Jews began to be marked and concentrated in specific places in German cities. The Jews who had sufficient resources had already gone into exile since the coming to power of National Socialism in January 1933. Those who could not pay their

• Berlin Olympic Stadium

  During the interwar period, Wiemars Germany gradually rejoined the international community. As a sign of this reintegration, in 1931 Berlin was named the venue for the XI Summer Olympics, which would take place in 1936. The Nazi party came to power on January 30, 1933, a fact that did not imply any

• UFA Film Studios

  From the appearance of cinema as mass entertainment until the rise to power of National Socialism in Germany in 1933, Berlin had become a mecca for cinema. During the first decades of the 20th century, and especially thanks to silent films, which were easily adaptable to any language, the studios

• SS brick factory

  In 1939 the SS launched the construction of the largest brick factory in the world at the time. The objective of this factory was to enrich the organization thanks to the sale of construction material to the Reich for the great remodeling works of the cities that were intended to be carried out. T

• Sachsenhausen bread factory

  Next to the former Sachsenhausen concentration camp there are today some industrial facilities that served the camp located in Oranienburg and that were nourished by the slave labor provided by this center. 1,500 meters away from the main camp of Sachsenhausen is an old bread factory. This factory w

• Fehrbelliner Platz

  In the program of the Nazi party was the reconstruction and remodeling of the cities of the new Nazi empire. Not many examples of this urban reconversion are visible today. Despite this, in the center of Berlin there is a small example of these Nazi plans to change the physiognomy of dozens of Europ

• large cargo body

  In the urban reform plans of the city of Berlin, the construction of very large buildings had been planned, which if they existed today would continue to be the largest in the world. One of them would be the triumphal arch of Berlin, a huge triumphal arch that would be built at the southern end of t

• memory wounds

  Although it is generally believed that the Battle of Berlin completely wiped out the city, this is a myth. It is true that the last great battle fought in Europe meant that 80% of the buildings in Berlin suffered some kind of damage. The buildings were mostly repaired after the war. Because the buil

• Martin Luther Memorial Church

  The city of Berlin underwent rapid expansion during the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century. The new neighborhoods on the outskirts therefore had to be equipped with all kinds of public services to meet the needs of the growing population. In the Mariendorf district, to the south

• Kommando Heinkel

  The Heinkel aeronautical company established a large aircraft factory in the city of Oranienburg in 1938. This factory, intended for the production of war planes, was initially operated by German civilian personnel, so it had nothing to do with the field. Sachsenhausen concentration camp. However, a

• The Capitulation of Berlin

  The first big step towards the definitive end of World War II was the surrender of the city of Berlin on May 2, 1945. After several weeks of heavy fighting, the German defenders finally threw in the towel. At 01:00 in the morning, General Weidling, in charge at that time of the defense of the capi

• Tiergarten Soviet Mausoleum

  World War II ended in Europe in May 1945. By November of that same year, the Soviet Union had erected its first war memorial in the former Nazi capital. Located right in the center of the Tiergarten park, the Soviets erected a memorial where they buried more than 1,000 combatants from the Battle of

• Treptower Park Soviet Memorial

  From Stalingrad in 1943 to the final victory of May 9 in Berlin, the Red Army had been chaining a series of great operations and great victories. This long fight had made it one of the greatest ground war machines in history. To commemorate the beginning and the end of the victory, the Soviet Union

• Soviet Memorial Schönholzer Heide

  The Battle of Berlin resulted in a total of 80,000 deaths for the Soviet Army. Due to the impossibility of repatriating the bodies of the fallen, the Soviet Union decided to build different memorials around Berlin for their eternal rest. The Schönholzer Heide memorial houses the moral remains of 13,

• Reich Aviation Ministry

  In 1936, the largest office building in the world to date was opened on Berlins Wilhlemstrasse. With 2,000 offices and more than 4,000 windows, the Reich Aviation Ministry was the headquarters of the Luftwaffe, the German warplane. In this huge building with a gray stone facade was the office of the

• propaganda ministry

  With the coming to power of the Nazi party in 1933, one of the first tasks that had to be carried out was the minds of the population. To this end, Joseph Goebbels was commissioned to create a propaganda ministry from scratch. The work was huge, but it was carried out with great success. Drawing i