Museum Of Terror Berlin
This museum is built on the site of the former ss headquarters on what was originally called prinz albrecht strasse now niederkirchnerstrasse.
Museum of terror berlin. The topographie des terrors exhibition is one of the most visited places of remembrance in berlin. However the museum is quite large and visitors need at least a couple of hours to explore it and read the texts that accompany each photograph. During the third reich the headquarters of the secret state police the ss and the reich security main office were located at. With more than a million visitors each years it is one of the most frequently visited museums and memorial centres in berlin.
More than 1 3 million people visited the topography of terror in 2018 making the documentation center one of the most frequently visited places of remembrance in berlin. Ook de panden van de gestapo ss sd en reichssicherheitshauptamt rsha waren allemaal zeer sterk beschadigd. Topography of terror documentation center. After the demolition of the ruins in the 1950s the area was used as a bumper car site and a dumping ground for rubble from the renovation of kreuzberg the plans for a memorial site on the former site of the gestapo goes back to 1978 when berlin architecture critic dieter hoffmann axthelm was one of the first to note in essays and surveys the significance of the former site of the.
In de jaren 50 werden ze afgebroken en kwam het terrein braak te liggen. Museumsportal berlin gives an overview of berlin s museums and provides information on exhibitions and events. Ontstaan van de topographie des terrors na de oorlog was er van een groot deel van het centrum van berlijn niets meer over. This history museum is especially attractive for those interested in history.
During the aerial bombings of berlin the headquarters were practically destroyed.