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Cold War Berlin Tour
by bus or car
The Cold War Tour leads to main places of confrontation between east and west from the end of World War II till the reunification of Germany. We get to know how the Berliners suffered from the division, but also how they managed to live with it. We start with the Allied Control Council Building, where the allies governed Germany together till 1948 and see Schöneberg Town Hall. There John F. Kennedy spoke to half a million Berliners in June 26, 1963. Military Airport Tempelhof was used during the Air Lift in 1948-49 by the so-called “raisin bombers”. In Wilhelmstraße we see the House of Ministries in the GDR (=German Democratic Republic) where the first uprising behind the Iron Curtain was shot down on 17th June 1953. Stops at the Berlin Wall, at Checkpoint Charlie and at the Soviet War Memorial serve as a time tunnel for seeing remains of the cold war.
Duration: three to four hours, meeting point by arrangement
