Third Reich Berlin Walking Tour with a French-Speaking Guide
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Uncover the rise of Nazism in Germany with Vive Berlin Tours on this 3-hour French-guided walking and public transport tour. Explore the mechanisms of propaganda, terror, and persecution, with a focus on the fate of Berlin’s Jewish community and other victims of the regime.
Starting at Potsdamer Platz, discover lesser-known memorials, including the T4 memorial, marking the site where the Nazi regime planned the murder of tens of thousands of disabled people.
See WWII battle scars and visit the German Resistance Memorial, site of the 20 July 1944 plot against Hitler. Continue to Hackescher Markt and the former Jewish quarter, passing the New Synagogue and Hackesche Höfe. Walk the 'Street of Tolerance', where a Catholic hospital, a Protestant church, and an old Jewish cemetery stand near a former Jewish retirement home turned by the Gestapo into a transit camp.
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Duration 3 hours
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Live tour guide
French
Key facts
What's included
Included
- Local guide
- Professional guide
- Local taxes
Not included
- Transportation to/from attractions. You should buy a day card for the public transportations of Berlin for the zones AB
- Food and drinks
Itinerary
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Stop 1
This is our meeting point.
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Stop 2
From Potsdamer Platz, we will see a memorial to the American journalist Varian Fry and then proceed to the German Resistance Memorial at the Bendlerblock. This is the site from which Operation Valkyrie was directed and a memorial that now commemorates all Germans who opposed and fought against Nazism.
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Stop 3
This station, of which a ruined original part remains, was one of the starting points for the deportations of Berlin's Jews. From there, we will take a train to reach Berlin's Jewish quarter.
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Stop 4
We will tell you about the Jewish community in the 19th and 20th century and the history of the synagogue.
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Stop 5
We will speak about different institutions which used to be in this street, as a school for Jewish girls and an orphanage in the Nazi Time.
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Stop 6
We will see the old Jewish cemetery and a "Sammellager". The place where Jews were detained before their deportation.
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Stop 7
The Museum tells the story of the workshop. The owner of the small factory, Otto Weidt, employed mainly blind and deaf Jews here during World War II. They produced brooms and brushes. Otto Weidt tried to protect them. You will listen to a story about braveness and humanity.
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Stop 8
We end our on the market place.
Meeting point & pickup
Meet at the starting point
We meet 20 minutes before the tour starts. In front of the Espresso House, at the corner with Gabriele-Tergit-Promenade.
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