Day Two Berlin - Touring Town

Today we are accompanied by our resident historian and guide Bernhard Schlegelmilch from Bernard's Tours of Berlin (www.steubentoursberlin.de). We often hire local guides to join us during our time visiting and learning about new places. Bernard does research for Rick Steve's guide books and is a terrific guide if you are visiting Berlin and the surrounding areas. The goal for today's 5 hour tour is to visit the most significant sights in the city. We are exhausted but I think we did it!

Berlin Cathedral

Museum Island

Berlin Cathedral 

Neue Wache - War Memorial

 "Mother with her Dead Son" by Käthe Kollwitz.

Humboldt University - home to many Nobel prize winners and my all time fav - Albert Einstein

Today - it's home to the Humboldt University's law school but the courtyard was the famous Berlin book burning location by Nazi's in 1933.

Frederick the Great

St. Hedwig's Cathedral and Hotel de Rome

Konzerthaus Berlin for concerts

French Church Berlin is actually a facade to the red roofed church located behind it. 

Dutch Church Berlin on Gendarmenmarkt public market area.

Fassbender & Rausch Chocolate store

Touristy Checkpoint Charlie (it's all fake) but the location is accurate.

Today - home to Berlin's finance ministry. It served as the headquarters of the Reich Aviation Ministry until the end of the war and was Herman Göring’s centre of power. Until 1948 it served as the headquarters for the Soviet military administration.

Extract of Max Lingner’s monumental mural. Its title translates as “Building the Republic”

Tribute to Georg Elser who plotted to kill Hitler in 1939 in Munich. Unfortunately Hitler cut his speech short and departed before the bomb exploded.  

 

Location of Hitler's bunker.

Brandenburg Gate

Plaza in front of the gate

Memorial to the Sinti and Roma Victims (Gypsies) of National Socialism.