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The Streets Of Cold War And East Berlin Half-Day Walking Tour
The Streets Of Cold War And East Berlin Half-Day Walking Tour

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$21.77

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Experience the story of East Berlin and take a look at a city that became the battleground between the USA and USSR. The guided tour takes you through the city’s many monuments and buildings that serve as reminders of a time when communism, the secret police, and the Berlin wall existed. See the Brandenburg Gate - once a symbol of Berlin and German division during the Cold War, now a national symbol of peace and unity. Stop by The Palace of Tears, a former border crossing point at Friedrichstrasse Station in East Berlin and the only one still standing today. Learn about the significance of its name and what it meant to Berliners. See ghost stations on Berlin's U-Bahn and S-Bahn metro networks that were closed during the Cold War because they were an integral part of a transit line mostly located on the other side of the Berlin Wall. Follow your guide to Tunnel 57, a tunnel under the Berlin Wall that was the location of a mass escape by 57 East Berlin citizens. See the “death strip," the belt of gravel-covered land between the two main barriers of the Berlin Wall. Fleeing citizens who initially avoided being detected could be tracked down by following their footprints in the death strip. Visit the Chapel of Reconciliation and the Berlin Wall Memorial, the central memorial site recalling German division. Your guide will answer some of history’s most debatable questions, was East Germany the most spied on society in the world? And did the Berlin wall fall by accident? The tour will conclude at the Bornholmer Strasse, the iconic location where the Wall was torn down by thousands of East Berliners.
Berliner Mauertour
Berliner Mauertour

$17.30

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Start your 2-hour Berlin guided tour at ‘The Palace of Tears’ referring to the former border crossing station at Berlin's Friedrichstrasse railway station, the sole border station during the Cold War. Understand the similarities and differences between 2 unique hostile systems in one divided city. See one of the most incredible sites associated with the Berlin Wall, as well as the locations of tragic losses and brilliant escapes at the Reichstag. View the parliament and government district, which have buildings on both sides of the border. Discover what it was to live in the German Democratic Republic, the Eastern Bloc's most heavily policed state. Discover what life was behind the Berlin Wall. Retrace the path of the Berlin Wall Explore this divided city and retrace the path of the Berlin Wall and the "death strip." Walk along Bernauer Strasse, the site of many daring escape attempts, and see the Berlin Wall Memorial and former Stasi Headquarters (DDR secret police). Take a walk through the famous Brandenburg Gate which was a symbol of division between Berlin and Germany during the Cold War and is now a symbol of peace and unity. Visit the Tiergarten Triangle and Checkpoint Charlie Continue your tour by visiting the Soviet War Memorial in Tiergarten. Walk from the Holocaust memorial on the former death strip to Potsdamer Platz, where the split is most visible in the former Tiergarten Triangle. The tour concludes at Checkpoint Charlie, where your guide will tell you about the infamous American-Soviet tank standoff and the final hours before the wall fell.
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