Berlin Third Reich Walking Tour Discount Tickets

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location pin icon Pariser Platz, Berlin, 10117, Germany
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Tour in English - 2pm
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Tour in English: Join our Berlin Third Reich Tour with one of our local English-speaking tour guides.
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Tour in English - 10am
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Overview

Walk Through the Shadows of History Berlin was the nerve center of one of the darkest regimes the world has ever known — and on this 2-hour walking tour, you’ll step into the very streets where it all unfolded. From the Reichstag to the chilling remains of Hitler’s underground bunker, this tour takes you deep into the heart of the former Nazi government district. Stand at the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe and hear the stories of those who suffered under Hitler’s brutal rule. Learn how a once-democratic nation slid into dictatorship — and how Berlin became the stage for both devastation and resistance. Led by an expert guide, you’ll uncover the chilling rise and dramatic fall of the Third Reich, tracing the final days of World War II from the very ground where history was made. You’ll also hop on public transport during the tour, so be sure to bring a short-trip AB ticket with you.

Meeting and Pickup

Meeting point

Your Berlin Third Reich Tour starts in front of the Starbucks at the Brandenburg Gate (S/U-Bahn Brandenburger Tor). Look for the SANDEMANs Tours team with a red SANDEMANs umbrella.

End Point

End point

Your Berlin Third Reich Tour usually ends at the women’s protest memorial "Rosenstraße" (between Alexanderplatz and Hackescher Markt).

Language Offered

English-GUIDE

Itinerary

1. Brandenburg Gate
Our tour begins at Berlin's most iconic landmark, but the Brandenburg Gate carries a darker history than most visitors realize. Under the Nazi regime, it became a stage for propaganda, hosting torchlit parades celebrating Hitler's rise to power in 1933. Standing directly on the line between East and West during the Cold War, it later spent decades sealed off entirely by the Berlin Wall. Your guide will use this starting point to set the historical stage for the Third Reich's rise, showing how this single monument reflects nearly a century of Germany's most turbulent history.
Duration: 10 mins
2. Reichstag Building
The Reichstag fire of February 1933 is one of history's great turning points, and it happened right here. Just weeks after Hitler became Chancellor, this building — the seat of German democracy — burned in a fire the Nazis blamed on communists, using it as pretext to suspend civil liberties and cement one-party rule. Your guide will walk you through exactly how this single event allowed the Nazi regime to seize near-total power within weeks, turning a democratic government into a dictatorship almost overnight. Badly damaged in WWII and later restored with its iconic glass dome, the Reichstag today stands as a working symbol of the democracy the Nazis once dismantled from within these very walls.
Duration: 15 mins
3. Memorial to the Sinti and Roma Victims of National Socialism
Facing the Reichstag, this reflective black pool memorializes the estimated 500,000 Sinti and Roma people murdered under Nazi rule, a genocide often referred to as the Porrajmos, or "the Devouring." A single fresh flower is placed at the center of the pool daily, a simple, ongoing act of remembrance for a persecution that received far less historical attention than other Nazi atrocities for decades after the war. Your guide will share why recognition for Sinti and Roma victims lagged so far behind other memorials, and how this space, completed in 2012, works to correct that historical imbalance.
Duration: 5 mins
4. Monument to Homosexuals Persecuted Under National Socialist Regime
This quiet concrete memorial commemorates a group of Holocaust victims often left out of the broader narrative: an estimated 100,000 gay men arrested under Nazi rule, with thousands sent to concentration camps. A small window in the monument plays a looping video of a same-sex couple kissing, a simple, direct statement in memory of those persecuted for their identity. Your guide will share this lesser-known chapter of Third Reich history, and explain why this memorial, completed in 2008, took decades longer to materialize than memorials to other victim groups.
Duration: 5 mins
5. Soviet Memorial Tiergarten
Built just months after Germany's surrender in 1945, this Soviet War Memorial honors the roughly 80,000 Red Army soldiers killed during the Battle of Berlin, the final assault that brought the Third Reich to its end. Flanked by two T-34 tanks used in the battle, the memorial sits on land that was part of the British sector during the Cold War, a curious arrangement that required Soviet guards to cross into Western-controlled Berlin to maintain it for decades. Your guide will explain how this memorial bridges the end of your Third Reich tour with the Cold War division that followed almost immediately after.
Duration: 5 mins
6. The Holocaust Memorial - Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe
Spanning nearly five acres in the heart of Berlin, this memorial's 2,711 concrete slabs create a disorienting, maze-like space meant to evoke unease rather than easy comfort. Completed in 2005, it stands as Germany's central memorial to the six million Jewish victims of the Holocaust, a deliberate and permanent act of national remembrance in the very city where the genocide was planned. Your guide will explain the memorial's design and the controversy surrounding it, along with the underground information center detailing individual victims' stories. It's a powerful, sobering stop that anchors the moral weight of the rest of your tour.
Duration: 15 mins
7. Fuhrerbunker
Beneath an unassuming parking lot lies the site of Hitler's final underground bunker, where he spent his last weeks as the Third Reich collapsed around him and where he took his own life in April 1945. Deliberately left unmarked to avoid becoming a neo-Nazi pilgrimage site, only a small informational placard now indicates its location, a stark contrast to the monumental ambitions of the regime that built it. Your guide will describe the bunker's final days in vivid detail: the chaos, the last orders given, and the end of the war in Europe that followed within days. Standing here, in one of the least remarkable-looking spots in Berlin, drives home just how completely the Nazi regime's grand vision collapsed.
Duration: 15 mins
8. New Synagogue Berlin - Centrum Judaicum
With its gleaming gold dome, the New Synagogue once served as the spiritual center of Berlin's thriving Jewish community before the Nazi era nearly destroyed it entirely. Vandalized during Kristallnacht in 1938 and later damaged by Allied bombing, the building survived against the odds, thanks in part to a local police officer who intervened during the 1938 attack. Today it houses the Centrum Judaicum, a museum and cultural center documenting Jewish life in Berlin before, during, and after the Holocaust. Your guide will share the building's remarkable survival story and what it reveals about the broader fate of Berlin's Jewish community under Nazi rule.
Duration: 10 mins
9. Block der Frauen
his modest memorial commemorates one of the only successful public protests against the Nazi regime: in February 1943, non-Jewish German women gathered here for days, demanding the release of their Jewish husbands who had been rounded up for deportation. Remarkably, the protest worked, and the men were released, a rare instance of the regime backing down in the face of public dissent. Your guide will share the full story of this extraordinary act of defiance, and what it reveals about the limits of the Nazi regime's control when confronted with organized, public resistance, a striking contrast to the darker histories covered elsewhere on this tour.
Duration: 15 mins

Inclusion

Local guide

Exclusion

Food and drinks

Transportation to/from attractions - you will need to purchase an AB transport ticket for this tour

Cancellation Policy

Check mark icon Refundable tickets

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

  • 100% refund if cancelled 1+ days before the start date
  • 0% refund if cancelled less than 1 day(s) before the start date

Additional Info

Wheelchair accessible

Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller

Public transportation options are available nearby

Transportation options are wheelchair accessible

All areas and surfaces are wheelchair accessible

Travelers should have at least a moderate level of physical fitness

Children must be accompanied by an adult

Children up to 13 years old are welcome to join this tour for free. We reserve the right to ask for a valid ID for children joining our tours

The independent guides who employ us to market their tours have your best interests in mind; while the tour usually includes the sites & stories mentioned and lasts about 2 hours, your tour may vary depending on what your guide thinks is best for your group

Supplied by SANDEMANs Tours - Berlin

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