Berlin History and Highlights Sightseeing Tour

Originally, the parliament building was constructed after the formation of the 2nd Reich and the scene of the first major step towards dictatorship after Hitler was made Chancellor in 1933

The nondescript car park under which lie the remains of the Führer Bunker. This was where Hitler killed himself with the Soviet forces almost upon him

We will also see how the German state deals with its complex and dark past as we visit several memorials on our way including the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe and the Memorial to the Nazi Book Burning in Babbels Platz

We will pass one of the original surviving sections of the Berlin Wall, the very symbol of the Cold War and discuss how, why, and when it was constructed, what brought it down, as well as accounts of the brutality of the East German Border Guards and incredible stories of escape

And as we head further Eastwards, we will start to appreciate the architectural grandeur of what was Prussian and then Imperial Berlin.