Berlin Travel Guide

In the months immediately after the war, civilian food rations, fuel and medication have been cut to a minimum, to keep counting 2.000.000 Soviet occupation forces. Starvation rations were measured in ounces per day, if there was anything to measure at all, …

“Enjoy the war, while you can. The room will be terrible”.
A Berlin joke from the period before the fall of the city.

In the fall 1944 the year was clear to everyone except the most fanatical Nazis, that the end is fast approaching. Despite this, Hitler did not even want to hear about …

THE SECOND WORLD WAR

Berliners welcomed the outbreak of World War II with little enthusiasm, despite German victories in Poland. According to the then-resident American journalist William Shirer, there were few signs of patriotic fervor in the streets, and Hitler, offended by his pride, canceled further parades. …

CRYSTAL NIGHT AND WAY TOWARD WAR

While some premises for forming an opinion about the brutality of the Nazis already existed during the Olympic Games, that after “Kristallnacht” the world could no longer doubt the scale of the violence. At night with 9 on …

THE INFLUENCE OF THE NAZIS IN BERLIN

In Berlin, as in the entire Reich, Nazi control extended to all areas of life - the press and radio were ruled by Gobbels, children enrolled in Nazi youth organizations, and in each tenement house he was appointed by the Nazis …

NIGHT OF LONG KNIVES

W 1934 During the year, the Nazi brutality was directed inward for a time. Under Ernst Rohm SA it has grown to 500.000 people, which is more than the Reichswehr. The SA felt deceived in sharing the spoils after Hitler's victory, and it started …

Hitler immediately went to the Reich Chancellery, to appear publicly for the first time as Chancellor. The streets of Berlin were full of Nazi supporters with torches. and the SA massively marched through the Regierungsviertel to celebrate the victory For Berlin anti-Nazis, a nightmare turned into …

Once inflation was under control, there was a period of relative political stabilization in Germany. Elections in 1924 years showed increased support for center-right and republican parties. When Ebert died (28 February 1925) and the presidency was assumed by the former head of the imperial army, Field Marshal …

The history of Berlin in the 1920s is inextricably linked with the history of Germany, which was largely imposed by the Allied powers. Dissatisfaction with the harsh conditions of the Versailles Treaty led to confusion and a wave of political violence: Matthias Erzberger, among others, was murdered. which steel …

An arms race and double alliances, which gradually polarized Europe in the 1990s and the first decade of the 20th century led inexorably towards the First World War. Its outburst in 1914 year was greeted with enthusiasm by the civilian population of all countries …