This impeccably restored stretch of the Wall is as sterile a monument as any in Berlin - with a touch of total inauthenticity, the western side is kept...

This sprawling former remand prison run by the Stasi was used to incarcerate political prisoners - anyone from the leaders of the 1953 workers' uprising to...

On 20 January 1942, a collection of prominent Nazis, chaired by Heydrich, gathered here to draw up plans for the Final Solution, making jokes and sipping...

This memorial stands on the site where the Nazis executed over 2,500 (largely political) prisoners. In a single night in 1943, 186 people were hanged. In...

Max Liebermann, perhaps the most famous German Impressionist painter, spent his summers in this beautiful house on the shore of Lake Wannsee from 1910 until...

After the Soviets took Berlin, they commandeered this former German officers' club as HQ for the military administration and it was here, on the night of...

The oldest structure inside the citadel (and the oldest secular building in Berlin) is the Juliusturm, dating back to about 1160. The bulk of the Zitadelle...