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Best historic in Berlin
14 places from 12 Berlin travel vlogs, most-mentioned first. The play button jumps to that moment in the video.
14 places · most mentioned first
Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe
Germany's first government-sponsored Holocaust memorial, a disorienting field of gravestone-like concrete pillars with no official meaning.
11:35· Rick Steves' Europein 8 vlogsCheckpoint Charlie
Site of the most famous Cold War border crossing between East and West Berlin, now a touristy scene with a replica guard house and actors posing as soldiers.
32:14· SteveMarshin 7 vlogsBerlin Wall Memorial
Park-like former death strip with preserved wall sections, a watchtower, information posts and photos of people who died trying to cross.
16:13· SteveMarshin 6 vlogsHumboldt University of Berlin
Historic seat of German higher learning on Unter den Linden, where Marx and Lenin studied and Einstein taught.
5:59· DW Travelin 4 vlogsSoviet War Memorial (Tiergarten)
Memorial to fallen Soviet soldiers, located in the Tiergarten.
5:31· Matt the Battlefield Guidein 3 vlogsDetlev-Rohwedder-Haus (former Luftwaffe Headquarters)
Former Nazi Air Force headquarters, now the Finance Ministry, and the only major Hitler-era building to survive the war.
9:35· Matt the Battlefield Guidein 2 vlogsFührerbunker Site
Unmarked parking lot above the site of Hitler's underground bunker, where he died by suicide on April 30, 1945.
7:40· Matt the Battlefield Guidein 2 vlogsNeue Wache
Memorial to all victims of war and tyranny, with a pietà by Berlin artist Käthe Kollwitz over the remains of an unknown soldier and an unknown concentration camp victim.
2:54· Matt the Battlefield Guidein 2 vlogs
Mentioned once
6 more picks, each from a single vlog, so not ranked.
Anhalter Bahnhof
The ruined front facade of Berlin's largest 19th-century train station. About 9,500 Berlin Jews were deported from here to Theresienstadt.
Belvedere Tea House
Elegant tea house tucked among the trees of the Charlottenburg Palace gardens.
20:48· RoamKash1 vlogSpandau Citadel
Star-shaped 16th-century Renaissance fortress, one of Europe's best preserved, with underground passages and the Julius Tower.
22:24· RoamKash1 vlogFranciscan Monastery Church Ruins
Ruins of a 13th-century monastery destroyed in WWII, one block from Alexanderplatz.
11:48· DW Travel1 vlogBerlin Medieval City Wall Remains
Surviving section of the medieval wall around Berlin, built from 1250 into the 14th century.
12:22· DW Travel1 vlogNordbahnhof
Former Cold War 'ghost station' where West Berlin trains passed through East Berlin without stopping, with exhibition signs on its history.
14:14· SteveMarsh1 vlog
