Bebelplatz

In 1933 Bebelplatz was called Opernplatz („Opera-Place“) and it was here, where the Nazi book burning happened on May 10.
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In September 1940 Hitler ordered the construction of undestroyable flak towers to protect Berlin against allied bombers. After the war, the undestroyable towers were demolished by the allied forces.
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It was here, on platform 17 at Grunewald station, where thousands of Jews were deported to the concentration camps in Poland. Today it's a memorial.
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Großbelastungskörper

Mainly french prisoners of war had to assemble 12,360 tons of concrete and steel to build this ugly thing. It's 14 meters high, has 21 meters in diameter and goes 18 meters deep in the ground.
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The "Topography of Terror" is a documentation center not only about Nazi terror but also for East Germany’s communistic terror regime.
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This is the street where Hitler used to stand on the balcony of his "Reichskanzlei" (Reich Chancellery) to greet the masses.
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Zwangsarbeiterlager

In 5, Britzer Str. you can find the "NS-Dokumentationszentrum Zwangsarbeit" (documentation center for nazi forced labour).
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