Tours/Berlin/Berlin WWII and Third Reich Self Guided Walking Tour with an APP
Viator · Private tour

Berlin WWII and Third Reich Self Guided Walking Tour with an APP

Berlin1 hour

Description

Walk through Berlin’s streets and uncover how an ordinary modern city became the command centre of a dictatorship. Start where Jewish life once thrived, follow the courtyards where people hid from persecution, and stand at the places where courage quietly pushed back. Move past ministries where laws rewrote daily life, cross squares where books burned, and stand before the Reichstag — where one night of fire helped end democracy. Walk through memorials to murdered communities and pause at the quiet ground above the Führerbunker, where the regime collapsed. End at Bendlerblock, where resistance made its final stand. This tour leads you through the real locations where decisions were made, lives were shattered, and Berlin learned to remember.

Tour Options

Berlin WWII and Third Reich Self Guided Walking Tour with an APP

Itinerary

5 min

Begin your journey through Berlin's darkest chapter. Discover how a vibrant capital became the command center of dictatorship, where history speaks from every corner and memorial.

5 min

Meet the haunting bronze figures standing on ground that held 400 years of history. This memorial honors a cemetery destroyed and a community that could never be fully erased.

5 min

Wander through beautiful Art Nouveau courtyards once buzzing with workshops and creativity. See the vibrant neighborhood life that thrived before restrictions began pushing people out.

10 min

Enter a colorful alley hiding one man's extraordinary courage. Discover how Otto Weidt used his small workshop to protect Jewish employees when the system tried to erase them.

5 min

Pass under the railway bridge as the story darkens. Learn how deportations increased, families vanished overnight, and a few brave Berliners risked everything to help.

5 min

Enter the small park where ordinary women changed history. You're steps from where they gathered, refused to leave, and forced the regime to back down in a rare public protest.

10 min

Stand among reddish stone figures calling out for their husbands. This memorial marks where wives protested for days, facing armed guards, and won—a rare victory against Nazi terror.

15 min

Pause beside medieval Berlin's oldest church, where red bricks trace lost houses and centuries of persecution echo. The TV Tower above reminds you how layers of history stack here.

5 min

Admire the elegant columns and bronze chariots, then learn how these beautiful galleries became propaganda stages. See where bombs later tore through roofs holding priceless collections.

Admission included10 min

Step inside the temple-like guardhouse where rain falls on a mother holding her dead son. This powerful memorial honors all victims of war and dictatorship with haunting simplicity.

5 min

Stand on elegant cobblestones hiding a dark secret. Look down through glass at empty shelves—the "Empty Library" marking where thousands of books burned in flames of censorship.

10 min

Stand before Berlin's iconic gate where marble columns frame centuries of history. See how this ceremonial arch became a propaganda backdrop, then a battlefield, then a symbol of hope.

5 min

Face the parliament where one night's fire destroyed German democracy forever. Discover how emergency powers following the 1933 blaze swept away freedoms and enabled dictatorship.

5 min

Descend into a quiet circular space where a triangular stone rises from dark water. This peaceful memorial honors hundreds of thousands of Sinti and Roma lives stolen by persecution.

10 min

Stand before the towering Soviet soldier guarding 20,000 graves. Real T-34 tanks flank this powerful memorial to those who fought through the final, brutal Battle of Berlin in 1945.

10 min

Enter the field of 2,711 concrete blocks—a powerful landscape of absence. Walk the narrow corridors, feel the weight of loss, then visit the Documentation Centre for individual stories.

5 min

Follow the street named for a murdered poet toward the regime's final hiding place. Beneath ordinary pavement ahead lies the sealed bunker where dictatorship's last days unfolded underground.

5 min

Face the massive grey building that survived the war untouched. From behind these windows, Hermann Göring commanded the Luftwaffe, orchestrated economic plunder, and shaped persecution's machinery.

5 min

Touch the crumbling concrete and exposed steel of the Berlin Wall. One dictatorship's remains stand here beside another's former headquarters—history's dark layers stacked on one street.

10 min

Face the haunting brick arch—sole survivor of a grand station turned deportation site. Thousands were loaded onto trains here, heading to ghettos and camps they'd never return from.

15 min

Enter the silent Bendlerblock courtyard where Stauffenberg and fellow plotters were executed hours after their failed 1944 assassination attempt. End your journey where courage met tragic consequence.

Highlights

Detailed directions to both well-known attractions and hidden spots
35+ narration points of popular locations in Berlin
Audio Guide
Access to the Berlin WWII & Third Reich Self Guided Walking Tour on our App
Fully offline map – no need for Wi-Fi or data.

What's included

Included
Detailed directions to both well-known attractions and hidden spots
35+ narration points of popular locations in Berlin
Audio Guide
Access to the Berlin WWII & Third Reich Self Guided Walking Tour on our App
Fully offline map – no need for Wi-Fi or data.

Important Information

  • Public transportation options are available nearby
  • Suitable for all physical fitness levels

You might also like...