Good war sites in Berlin/Germany???

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rosbif

You're going to have trouble locating any places that saw actual fighting, unless you want to go all the way to the German borders!
One place you could visit is the Seelow Heights, about 80km East of Berlin and 10km from the Polish border. The Battle of the Seelow Heights was one of the last pitched battles of World War II. It was fought over four days, from April 16 until April 19, 1945. Close to one million Soviet soldiers were in action to break through the "Gates to Berlin" which was defended by about 100,000 German soldiers.
On the other side of the country, you could go to the villages of
Hollen, Keppeln, and Mooshoff in the area near Kleve next to the Dutch border. They were fortified strongpoints against the Allied invasion of Germany in late Feb 1945 and were eventually captured by II Canadian Corps as part of "Operation Veritable" on 26th Feb.
If you want to see National Socialist architecture or other building work, then the following may help:
In Berlin, Tempelhof airport, Olympiastadion and the Reichstag.
In Munich, the German National Gallery and Dachau Concentration camp.
Near Weimar, Buchenwald Concentration camp.
Anywhere in Germany: the Sparkasse banks are often in NS-period buildings, excellent examples in Eisenach, Erfurt and Weimar.
If you only go to see one Concentration camp, then go to Buchenwald. On a December day on a bleak hillside when the temperature is around -20c, with snow driven in by a high wind, you freeze in full winter gear and get thoroughly cold and miserable...then you see pictures of the inmates in their shorts clearing snow. Dachau is like a theme park for US tourists in comparison. You don't "get" concentration camps by visiting Dachau, because it just doesn't seem to be that horrible when you see it. Even on a sunny day in mid-July Buchenwald is a dead place.

Paris Hilton

Read the Battle of Berlin---every drainage ditch there was a battle ground...Mrs gavanrossem that was a very insightful comment, I agree with it....slowly the younger generation is coming out of their shell.....

john b

Check out http://www.berlin-explored.com

heidi.froebel

there are museums in berlin, also all over germany, many of the former concentration camps have been turned into museums. be prepared for shocking details on how they treated the people in those camps you might see very moving pictures

for more info try to go to berlins official website and first click on the british flag for an english site and then on 'tourism', the site is www.berlin.de

also, go to 'unter den linden' which is a large boulevard, it leads to the brandenburger tor, on the left is the reichstag, where our government is situated, you can visit it, it used to be the house of hitlers government as well, if you walk through the brandenburger tor towards the siegessaeule, there is some war memorial place on the right

mrsgavanrossem

If you're thinking about the Hitler war, you may be hard-pressed to find any. That was certainly my experience in Berlin a few years ago; it would seem that as part of their national attempt to come to terms with being a people that could simultaneously produce Bach, Beethoven, Goethe, etc., and also Belsen they have gone on a serious but inward journey that is very difficult for a foreigner to discover. I looked very hard indeed and the only thing that got to me was the Olympic Stadium, which at that time had been left untouched since 1936, but I gather that it's been refurbished since then and the impact won't be anything like the same.

Remember that they had a very hard time of it post-war, and I don't just mean economically; a great deal of soul-searching to do. As a tourist you're unlikely to uncover much of it and it may be tactful not to try too hard. One of the lessons - as we are seeing now - is that there but for the grace of God go any of us.

lightningfastfords

you hit the nail on the head anywhere in Berlin , that's where the cookies crumbled, Hitler's bunker chateau whats left of it in the alps, and as your driving on the auto bond Hitler built that as well

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