Walking the last remaining stretch of the Berlin Wall’s ‘death strip’ (and much more) we’ll explore the history of the Cold War and the divided German capital, to see where citizens were surveilled, spies were swapped, and escapes were made.
On this tour, we’ll see:
the Wall’s most famous gateway, Checkpoint Charlie
the ‘inner’ and ‘outer’ Berlin Walls, flanking the militarized ‘death strip’
the site of escapes by tunnel – and more
a monument to the 140 people killed at the Berlin Wall
a former ‘ghost station,’ shut during the Cold War
Bornholmer Strasse, where the Wall opened on November 9th, 1989
Karl-Marx-Allee, East Berlin’s showcase boulevard
We can also take an extended version of this tour, and see:
the former HQ of the Stasi (pictured)
the ‘Palace of Tears’ border crossing
