Berlin, Germany

Our last stop will be Berlin, capital of Germany. The city has been transformed since the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, and construction continues today. We'll spend our class time at three sites. First we'll spend a day at the Resistance Memorial Center, located in the building where several of the leaders of the plot to assassinate Hitler on July 20, 1944 had their offices and where they were executed following the failure of their plan. We'll tour the museum and hear talks focussing on German youth opposition to the Nazi regime. The following day we'll visit the former Sachsenhausen concentration camp, which held many political prisoners and was a training ground for concentration camp personnel. Our final class day will be sent at the House of the Wannsee Conference, where we'll study Jewish life in Germany before Hitler and during the Holocaust. Our last day in Europe will be a free day for exploring Berlin.

Charlottenburg, the palace of the King of Prussia

The Spandau district is largely a pedestrian zone built around the formerly independent medieval city of Spandau.

Humboldt University, the Neue Wache, the former Arsenal and the Berlin Cathedral all lie along Unter den Linden, one of the central avenues of Berlin.

• House of the Wansee Conference is the site where plans for the Final Solution were laid out. Here
  is a copy of the Wannsee Protocol which laid out the plans for the Final Solution.

• German Resistance Memorial Center explores resistance to Nazism in Germany between 1933 and 1945.

• Topography of Terror: International Documentation and Encounter Center stands on the site of the headquaters of the Nazi security apparatus (Gestapo, SS, RSHA). In German

• Ravensbrueck Memorial Museum is on the site of a concentration camp for women.

• Sachsenhausen Memorial commemorates the former concetration camp, but it's only in German.

• WWW.Berlin-Info.DE is a good general website for visiters to Berlin.

• USA Today climate: Berlin

Last edited September 26, 2004 .