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Home / Regional / Europe / Germany / States / Berlin / Arts and Entertainment / Museums / History Museums and Memorials
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- Checkpoint Charlie Museum - Contact Addresses, Transportation, Opening Times, Admission Fees and other information on the Checkpoint Charlie Museum. Brief description of the exhibition documenting the ingenious attempts of many civilians to escape from the Communist East of Germany before the fall of the wall.
www.worldtouristattractions.travel-guides.com/attractions/hcc/hcc.asp
- German Historical Museum - Museum information on various exhibitions, collections and departments within the German Historical Museum. Bilingual German/English-language website.
deutsches.historisches.museum
- German Resistance Memorial Center, Berlin - The German Resistance Memorial Center is located in the historic section of the former headquarters of the Army High Command, where it documents the failed attempt of Colonel von Stauffenberg and others to assassinate Hitler in 1944. It also operates a documentation and memorial center in Berlin-Plötzensee, where 3000 innocent people were executed between 1933-1945 as a result of the Nazi penal and judiciary system.
www.gdw-berlin.de/start-e.html
- German-Russian Museum, Berlin (Karlshorst) - Originally founded in 1967 for the Soviet army stationed in East Germany, the museum commemorates and researches the history of Eastern Europe during the Second World War. English-language summary; limited service information.
www.museum-karlshorst.de/html/service/service/index.shtml
- House of the Wannsee Conference - Memorial Center - The permanent exhibition documents the Wannsee conference, the events prior to it, and its consequences. It provides basic information on the entire process of the segregation, persecution and genocide of the European Jews by German authorities under the Nazi dictatorship.
www.ghwk.de/engl/kopfengl.htm
- Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe - Built following a 1999 resolution of the German Parliament, the Memorial, located in immediate vicinity of the central Brandenburg Gate, commemorates the victims of the Holocaust. A remarkable symbol for Germany's facing the dark sides of its history.
www.holocaustmahnmal.de
- The Allied Museum - The Allied Museum documents the presence of the allied forces (US, France, Britain) in Berlin after World War II. It is a colourful display of the life of West Berliners and allied military personnel between 1945 and the fall of the Berlin wall.
www.alliiertenmuseum.de
- Topography of Terror - Exhibition and Documentation Centre - The Topography of Terror Foundation operates an open-air exhibition on the former site of the Nazi Secret Police, where it documents the crimes carried out during the 'Third Reich'.
www.topographie.de/e/index.htm
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