In 1695, the citys artillery arsenal was opened in the center of Berlin. The building maintained its military function until the mid-19th century, when it became obsolete. At that time it became an army museum until 1945. In addition to being a museum space, during the years of the National Socia
The Reich Bank was the most important financial center in Germany during Nazism. Completed by 1939, the building housed millions of gold marks stolen and looted throughout Europe during the years of the regime. The large safes kept thousands of gold bars, which had been obtained from the peoples of
The Nazi party came to power on January 30, 1933. Due to its revolutionary character, the new regime had to put an end to any type of opposition. On May 10 of that same year, the Nazi authorities charged against the intellectuals who were against them. In more than 20 university cities in the cou
The city of Berlin suffered continuous aerial bombardment by the American and British air forces. To defend the city from Allied bombing, the Nazi authorities erected three large Flakturm in three different districts of Berlin:Humboldthain, Zoo and Friedrichshain. Of the three anti-aircraft towe
During World War II, Nazi engineers developed highly advanced bunker-building techniques. These techniques made it possible to erect large concrete buildings resistant to aerial or ground bombardment. Many of these buildings have survived the war due to the difficulty of demolishing them. Next to t
The gasometer bunker or Fichtebunker in German it is one of the numerous civil protection bunkers that Nazi Germany erected in Berlin to protect its citizens from aerial bombing of the city. At the end of the 19th century, the city of Berlin installed gas lighting in the streets of Berlin. To supply
The Sachsenhausen concentration camp was the most important administrative camp in the entire Third Reich . Everything that was wanted to be implemented in other concentration camps was first tested in Sachsenhausen. Berlin had its first concentration camp in 1933, when on March 21 of that year, j
The Nazi party tried to wipe out any ethnic group that threatened the purity of the Aryan race. According to National Socialist ideology, the Roma people are made up of untermensch -infrahuman-, so they tried to eliminate them wherever they were. In 1936, the Berlin police carried out a cleansing
Among the plans to turn Berlin into the world capital, great public works had been designed that would completely remodel the German capital. To the south of the city, the construction of a large railway station, the southern station, was planned, which was never built. Despite this, construction
In the small town of Falkensee, bordering Berlin to the west, was one of the many subsidiary camps of Sachsenhausen along with other similar facilities. The industrial exploitation complex was made up of four large spaces:a prison camp, a prisoner of war camp, a foreign forced labor camp, and a fact
South of Berlin, the headquarters of the Feldpolizei were established on the military premises of a railway regiment from the imperial era. of the SA in 1933. After the Nazi party came to power in 1933, the Sturm Abteilung o SA was together with the SS in charge of creating hundreds of detention
By the end of 1941 the mass murder of the Jews of Eastern Europe had become a major problem for the Nazi regime. Until then, deaths had been caused by mistreatment or poor living conditions in concentration camps and ghettos. Also since June 1941, after the invasion of the Soviet Union, actions were
In the immediate vicinity of the Sachsenhausen concentration camp is the Szczypiorski House, today a youth hostel. The house was built in 1938 as the official place of residence of the director of the German concentration camps Theodor Eicke. At the same time as the IKL concentration camp inspection
The cemetery was created in 1748, at the time of King Frederick II the Great of Prussia, to serve the nearby home for the invalids. Starting with the war of liberation against Napoleon in 1813, the cemetery became the resting place of high-ranking military personalities, first Prussians and then Ger
The Germans, under the leadership of the Nazi party, murdered millions of human beings during their 12-year rule. In 1933 the massacres of their political opponents began and during the following years they continued to kill throughout the country. In 1939, however, a qualitative leap was made. That
In 1938 the direction of the German concentration camps was transferred to the city of Oranienburg. Next to the Sachsenhausen camp, a large T-shaped office building was erected where the Inspectorate for Concentration Camps, Inspektion der Konzentrazionslager , was located. in German, in addition to
Erected between 1864 and 1873, the Victory Column or Siegesäule in German it is the symbol of the unification of the country at the end of the 19th century. It was originally commissioned to celebrate the victory of the Kingdom of Prussia over Denmark in 1864. However, due to Prussian militarism and
The German Navy or Kriegsmarine it became the second largest in the world in 1918. Kaiser Wilhelm II wanted to compete in naval power with his cousin, King George V of England. Following his accession to the throne in the late 19th century, the German Kaiser pushed for accelerated construction of a
In the small town of Zossen, south of Berlin, a small German army barracks was built in 1910. During the First World War the place was converted into a prisoner of war camp. 30,000 Muslims, Africans and Indians who fought on the French and British sides passed through there. In 1915, the first mosqu
In the center of Berlin, on Wilhelmstrasse, the government street, the headquarters of the SS, the Gestapo and the SD were located until 1945. The buildings that housed these Nazi institutions were pre-existing buildings. In 1934, they were expropriated to house the Nazi party troops that controlled
Many countries collaborated with Hitler, putting a hand to exterminate their Jewish citizens. But only one country was ready to pay the Germans for every Jew that was gassed. It was Slovakia ruled by Father Tisa. About 90,000 Jews lived in Slovakia in the interwar period. Until the fall of 1938,
Polish insurgents and luminaries of the national culture came to Siberia. There were also sent - to heavy labor and often to settle for life - doctors accused of aborting a fetus. In modern times in Poland, abortion was subject to the same penalty as for infanticide:death. Only the first penal
This charming swashbuckler dreamed of aviation since he was a child. He was a figure full of contradictions:an incorrect rookie, a skillful smuggler, but also a war hero and one of the greatest Polish fighter pilots in the history. He was looking for his place on earth until the end of his life. How
For Hungarian Jews, the last year of World War II was the most difficult. Tivadar Soros, father of the famous businessman and social activist George Soros, tells the story of his family at that time. A cheerful disposition, World War I military experience and natural cunning made Tivadar and his ent