Experience GDR up close
Erich Mielke's study with adjoining casino, espionage technology such as bugs and hidden infrared emitters, as well as machine guns hidden in suitcases can be viewed in the Stasi Museum.
The Hohenschönhausen Memorial is located in the former central Stasi prison of the GDR.
In front of the museum is the former Checkpoint Charlie. Inside, everything revolves around the creative escape attempts of people in the GDR and the border security system of that time.
Café Sibylle is a long-established historical witness in the heritage-protected part of Karl-Marx-Allee.
A prefabricated concrete panel building apartment still furnished with original GDR furniture – this historical document can be visited in Hellersdorf!
Together with tens of thousands of other GDR citizens, Chancellor Angela Merkel crossed into the West at this very spot on the day the Wall fell.
The Evangelical Gethsemane Church in Prenzlauer Berg stands for the peaceful revolution in the GDR.
The residential buildings in the typical Moscow 'gingerbread style' characterize Europe's only boulevard built after the war! Today, Karl-Marx-Allee, with the two striking towers of Frankfurter Tor, is a protected monument – it is Germany's longest contiguous architectural monument.
They are the intellectual fathers of communism – Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels.
