Self-guided walking tour

Berlin Walking Tour: Dictatorship and Division – Berlin’s 20th Century (3 hours, 5 stops)

5 stops in walking order through Berlin, from Checkpoint Charlie to Denkmal für die ermordeten Juden Europas: 3.9 km on foot, about 47 min of walking, 3 h in total with the story and a look around at each stop. Walking times come from the routed walking path, not a straight line. It is the route of “Dictatorship and Division: Berlin’s 20th Century”, a ready-made tour in the Guided Tours app.

Total: 3 h
Distance: 3.9 km
Walking: 47 min
Stops: 5

The stops, in walking order

Checkpoint Charlie
A former Berlin Wall crossing and a Cold War symbol of division between East and West.
11 min walk · 920 m
Jüdisches Museum
A major museum of Jewish history and culture in Germany, housed in a baroque building and Daniel Libeskind’s angular new structure.
17 min walk · 1.4 km
Topographie des Terrors
Topography of Terror is a documentation centre and open-air historical site on Niederkirchnerstraße, built on the former headquarters of the Gestapo and central SS security offices.
10 min walk · 830 m
Potsdamer Platz
Potsdamer Platz combines an urban plaza with a busy junction, its story stretching from the Potsdam Gate to the Berlin Wall.
9 min walk · 720 m
Denkmal für die ermordeten Juden Europas
The Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe commemorates Jewish people murdered under Nazi rule.