Berlin WW2 Sites Map: Every World War 2 Site, Station and Cost

Führerbunker Site

A residential car park at Gertrud-Kolmar-Straße, at the corner of In den Ministergärten, about 3 minutes' walk from S+U Potsdamer Platz. The bunker lay about 8.5 m below the old Chancellery garden. Nothing is visible or open to visitors.

One bilingual information board with a bunker schematic has stood here since 8 June 2006. Allow about 10 minutes. Several tours stop here: the 2-hour walking tour at $27, the 3-hour Hitler and WWII walk at $19.66, the historian-led small-group tour at $51 and the half-day walk at $22.91.

Full detail sits on the Hitler's bunker page.

Detlev-Rohwedder-Haus (former Air Ministry)

Göring's Reich Aviation Ministry on Wilhelmstraße survived the 1944-45 bombing and now houses the Federal Finance Ministry. Reach it from U Mohrenstraße or S+U Potsdamer Platz. You see it from the street only, which takes minutes and costs nothing. The 3-hour walking tour at $19.66 includes it as Goering's former ministry, and the 2-hour tour at $27 also passes it.

There is no interior visit, so no entry fee applies. It pairs naturally with the Topography of Terror nearby.

Topography of Terror

The Gestapo, SS and Reich Security Main Office site at Niederkirchnerstraße 8, with a 200 m stretch of the Berlin Wall beside it. Stations: S Anhalter Bahnhof or S+U Potsdamer Platz. Open daily 10:00 to 20:00, outdoor areas until dusk.

Admission is free, and plan 1-3 hours for the indoor exhibition, the 15-station outdoor tour and the 'Berlin 1933-1945' show. Several tours pass it: the 2-hour walk at $27, the historian-led tour at $51, the half-day walk at $22.91 and the private tour at $194.12 per person. More on the Topography of Terror page.

Berlin Story Bunker

A real wartime air-raid shelter at Schöneberger Straße 23A near Anhalter Bahnhof, about 3 minutes on foot from the S-Bahn. It holds the exhibition 'Hitler - How could it happen' with a full-size Führerbunker office replica, plus post-war Berlin displays. Open daily 10:00 to 19:00, last admission 17:30, plan about 3 hours.

The entry ticket with audio guide is $20 on the listing. It is a museum ticket, not a guided tour, so you visit alone. The exhibition covers the Holocaust, and the venue advises parental discretion for very young children.

See the Berlin Story Bunker page.

Anhalter Bahnhof Ruin

The standing portico of a station opened in 1841, about 600 m southeast of Potsdamer Platz, reached at S Anhalter Bahnhof. From here 9,600 Jews were deported to Theresienstadt in 116 trains, which makes this a place for quiet remembrance. The ruin was demolished in 1960 and only the façade section remains.

A stop of about 10 minutes, free, with nothing to enter. The half-day walking tour at $22.91 includes the ruins on its route. Combine it with the Berlin Story Bunker nearby and the Technikmuseum on the former freight yard.

Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe

About 2,700 concrete stelae by Peter Eisenman on a 19,073 square metre field at Cora-Berliner-Straße 1, opened on 10 May 2005. Station: S+U Brandenburger Tor, about 5 minutes on foot. The field is open 24 hours a day and free.

The underground Information Centre, about 800 square metres, opens Tuesday to Sunday 10:00-18:00, closed Mondays, also free, with audio guides at €3. Allow 30 minutes to 2 hours. The 2-hour walking tour at $27 stops here, and the private tour at $194.12 per person includes it. Depth on the Holocaust memorial page.

Memorial to the Sinti and Roma

Dani Karavan's memorial on Simsonweg in the Tiergarten, a dark circular pool with a triangular stone where a fresh flower is placed daily. It opened on 24 October 2012 and cost €2.8 million. Station: S+U Brandenburger Tor.

Free, allow about 15 minutes, and sit for a moment at the water. It commemorates the Sinti and Roma victims of National Socialism, estimated at 220,000 to 500,000 people. The historian-led tour at $51 visits it, as does the beer and history walk at $78. It lies a short walk from the Reichstag.

Memorial to Homosexuals Persecuted Under Nazism

A single concrete block, 3.60 m tall and 1.90 m wide, by Elmgreen and Dragset on the Tiergarten edge facing the Holocaust memorial. Inaugurated on 27 May 2008. A window shows a film, 'Kuss ohne Ende', replacing the earlier loop in 2012.

Station: S+U Brandenburger Tor, free, about 10 minutes. The historian-led small-group tour at $51 is the listed tour that stops here, which reflects its nine-site route across the quarter. Visit together with the nearby memorials so the group of victims is named in full.

Brandenburg Gate

The start of most central WW2 walks, on Pariser Platz. Station: S+U Brandenburger Tor. It is free, and most itineraries treat it as a stop of about 15 minutes on a walk rather than a destination in itself.

Three listed tours begin or pass here: the 2-hour walk at $27 starts at the gate, the historian-led tour at $51 meets at Pariser Platz 1, and the beer and history tour at $78 includes it. From the gate, the Reichstag is about 4 minutes on foot and the Holocaust memorial about 5 minutes, so it anchors the whole map.

Reichstag

Damaged by arson on 27 February 1933, fought over in 1945, with Soviet graffiti partly preserved inside. Stations: S+U Brandenburger Tor or U Bundestag. The dome and terrace visit is free but needs online registration on the Bundestag website with names and dates of birth, and you bring the confirmation plus a passport or ID. The 2-hour tour at $27, the 3-hour walk at $19.66, the half-day walk at $22.91, the beer and history tour at $78 and the private tour at $194.12 all include it.

The Reichstag dome visit page has the detail.

Soviet War Memorial Tiergarten

Unveiled on 11 November 1945 on the north side of Straße des 17. Juni, with sight of the Reichstag and Brandenburg Gate. More than 2,000 soldiers are buried there, and the memorial displays two ML-20 howitzer-guns and two T-34 tanks.

It was built from stone salvaged from the Reich Chancellery. Walk from Brandenburg Gate along Straße des 17. Juni, allow 15 minutes, free. The 2-hour walking tour at $27 and the 3-hour walk at $19.66 stop here.

The Soviet war memorials page covers all three Berlin memorials.

Moltke Bridge

The stone bridge over the Spree where Soviet troops crossed toward the Reichstag in the Battle of Berlin, which ran 16 April to 2 May 1945. Station: S+U Hauptbahnhof. Free, allow about 10 minutes to stand on the bridge and read the battlefield in the buildings around it. The beer and history tour at $78 is the listed tour that includes Moltke Bridge on its 3.5-hour route through Battle of Berlin sites.

Pair it with the Reichstag and the Soviet memorial for a compact northern loop.

Tränenpalast at Friedrichstraße

The Tränenpalast at Reichstagufer 17 beside S+U Friedrichstraße is best known here as the meeting point of several walks. The 3-hour Hitler and WWII walk at $19.66 meets outside Friedrichstraße station on the square beside the Tränenpalast, and the Sachsenhausen tour in English at $27.39 uses the same square. Free, and the time depends on your route rather than the site itself. It sits at the boundary between the government-quarter walks and the northern train lines, which makes it a natural hinge on the map.

Bebelplatz Book Burning Memorial

About 20,000 books were burned here on 10 May 1933. Micha Ullman's 'Empty Library' is a glass plate in the cobbles over empty shelf space, and a plaque quotes Heine: 'where they burn books, they will in the end also burn people'. Station: U6 Französische Straße or bus 100/300.

Free, about 15 minutes. No listed tour includes Bebelplatz, so you visit it on your own. It sits on Unter den Linden, so it fits on a central walk.

Neue Wache

Karl Friedrich Schinkel's building of 1816-1818 on Unter den Linden has been the Central Memorial for the Victims of War and Tyranny since 1993. It holds Käthe Kollwitz's enlarged 'Mother with her Dead Son' under an open oculus. Reach it by bus 100/300 or from the U Museumsinsel stop.

Free, allow about 15 minutes, and it is an indoor space for quiet, not a photo stop. No listed tour stops here, so it belongs to the do-it-yourself side of the map. Combine with Bebelplatz nearby.

German Resistance Memorial Center

The Bendlerblock at Stauffenbergstraße 13-14, where Stauffenberg and other 20 July 1944 plotters were executed without trial in the courtyard. Bus M29 stops directly at the memorial, with M48 and 200 also close. Open Monday to Friday 9:00-18:00, weekends and holidays 10:00-18:00, admission free, allow 1-2 hours.

Free public tours run on the first Sunday in German and the third Sunday in German and English. Only the private walking tour at $194.12 per person lists the resistance headquarters on its route. Detail on the German Resistance Memorial Center page.

Humboldthain Flak Tower

The surviving flak tower ruin in Volkspark Humboldthain, built from October 1941 to April 1942 with many forced labourers. Station: S+U Gesundbrunnen. The ruin can only be entered on a Berliner Unterwelten tour, for ages 18 and over, with sturdy closed shoes.

The tour costs €17 (reduced €13) and lasts about 90 minutes, showing remains of three of the original seven floors. The guided bike tour at $39 rides past the flak tower on its 15-kilometre route, though it does not enter the structure. Background on the flak towers page.

Berliner Unterwelten, Gesundbrunnen

The association's base at Brunnenstraße 105 near S+U Gesundbrunnen runs the 'Dark Worlds' tour through a WWII civilian air-raid shelter under the station. It costs €17 (reduced €13) and lasts 90 minutes per the 2025 flyer, booked in advance through the online shop. Tours are not suitable for children under 7, photography is forbidden, and it is 10 °C underground all year.

An exhibition 'Hitler's plans for Berlin: Myth of Germania' shows Saturdays 11:00-17:00 at €6. No listed commercial tour covers it, so it is an own-visit stop. See Berlin underground tours.

Soviet War Memorial Treptower Park

Opened on 8 May 1949, with a 12 m bronze soldier recalling Sergeant Nikolai Masalov and 16 stone sarcophagi, one per Soviet republic of the time. Station: S Treptower Park, then a short walk into the park. Free, allow 45-60 minutes.

No listed tour includes it, so plan it yourself. The Soviet war memorials guide puts it in context.

Museum Berlin-Karlshorst

The building where the German unconditional surrender was ratified on 8 May 1945, formerly the officers' mess of the Wehrmacht pioneer school. The original surrender room is preserved and shows a film of the signing. Reach it by S3 to Karlshorst then bus 296, about 32 minutes from central Berlin, or U5 to Tierpark then bus 296.

Free, closed Mondays, open Tuesday to Sunday 10:00-18:00, audio guides €3. Allow 1-2 hours. No listed tour stops here.

Detail on the Museum Berlin-Karlshorst page.

Schwerbelastungskörper

The Heavy Load-Bearing Body at Dudenstraße / General-Pape-Straße, built 1941-1942 to test whether Berlin soil could carry the planned Germania triumphal arch. It is 14 m tall, 21 m in diameter and weighs about 12,650 tonnes, and it had sunk 19 cm after about 2.5 years against an acceptable 6 cm. Station: S Südkreuz.

Free to view from outside, about 20 minutes, and it is a protected monument since 1995. No listed tour includes it, so it is a do-it-yourself stop.

Tempelhof Airport Building

The Nazi-era terminal with about 300,000 square metres of floor space, seen on guided tours from the CHECK-IN visitor centre at Platz der Luftbrücke 5. Station: U6 Platz der Luftbrücke. Official tours include 'Tempelhof Myths', 'Hidden Places' and 'THF in 60 minutes', booked through Museumsdienst Berlin, and a listing quotes a 2-hour English tour Thursday to Sunday.

Prices on the official page are not stated, so check at booking. Allow 2 hours on a tour. Tours are not suitable for wheelchair users.

No listed tour on this site covers Tempelhof.

Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church

The ruined spire at Breitscheidplatz, preserved after the church was bombed on 22 November 1943. The original spire stood 113 m, and the ruin is roughly 70 m. Egon Eiermann's new church of 1959-1963 stands beside it with 21,292 glass inlays.

Stations: S+U Zoologischer Garten, with buses 100, 200 and M46 within about 100 m. Free, open daily 10:00-18:00, allow 30-60 minutes. The memorial hall holds the Coventry nail cross and a plaque for victims of Nazi tyranny, but it is listed as closing for renovation work, so check before you go.

Detail on the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church page.

Olympiastadion

Built for the Olympic Games opened on 1 August 1936, where Jesse Owens won four gold medals. Architects Werner and Walter March, Bell Tower 77 m high, damaged in the war and rebuilt in 1960-1962. Stations: S Olympiastadion or U2.

Visits are booked at tickets.olympiastadion.berlin, and the stadium is closed to visitors on match and event days. Allow 1-2 hours. No listed tour covers it.

Background on the Olympic Stadium Berlin 1936 page.

Plötzensee Memorial

The execution site at Hüttigpfad 16, where more than 2,800 people were executed between 1933 and 1945. Reach it by bus from Jungfernheide or Beusselstraße. Admission is free, opening hours 9:00-17:00 with some sources giving an earlier close in winter, closed 24-26 December, 31 December and 1 January.

Allow 30-60 minutes. No listed tour includes it, so it belongs to the do-it-yourself map. It pairs with the German Resistance Memorial Center, which covers the resistance.

House of the Wannsee Conference

The villa at Am Großen Wannsee 56-58 where fifteen senior officials chaired by Reinhard Heydrich met on 20 January 1942 for about 90 minutes, listing about 11 million European Jews for 'evacuation' in the protocol. Take S1 or S7 to Wannsee, then bus 114 to the stop 'Haus der Wannsee-Konferenz'. Free, open daily 10:00-18:00, public tours free on Saturdays and Sundays.

Allow 2 hours plus travel. No listed tour covers it, so visit on your own. The House of the Wannsee Conference page has the full history.

Glienicke Bridge

The bridge on the road toward Potsdam, reached by bus 316 from S Wannsee. It appears on the map as a stop on the way rather than a destination, crossed during the Sachsenhausen and Potsdam day tour at $44, which combines the memorial with a Potsdam walk and a panoramic view of Berlin on a 9.5-hour bus day. Free, and the time depends on the itinerary.

If you travel independently, the bridge pairs with Wannsee in one southwestern loop, since the bus starts at S Wannsee.

Sachsenhausen Memorial

The concentration camp at Straße der Nationen 22, Oranienburg, about 35 km north of Berlin, operating from 1936 to April 1945 with more than 200,000 prisoners. Take the S1 to Oranienburg, about 45 minutes from Friedrichstraße, then a 20-minute walk or bus 804. Admission is free, an ABC single ticket is €5, and allow 4.5-6 hours door to door.

Several tours go there: the memorial tour at $28, the tour in English at $27.39, the small-group tour at $37.79 and the bus day with Potsdam at $44. All but the last require you to buy the ABC train ticket yourself.

The Split at a Glance

Most of the central stops appear on tour routes, while the outer memorials, the eastern sites and most of the west belong to the do-it-yourself side. None of the tours includes hotel pickup except the private option, and only the Sachsenhausen and Potsdam bus day includes transport, so for the rest an AB ticket at €4 or a 24-hour ticket at €11.20 stays on your own account. The one paid entry in the central cluster is the Berlin Story Bunker ticket at $20.