Berlin

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Suggested Itinerary

3-Day Berlin by air
Day 1: Reichstag, Brandenburg Gate, Führer Bunker, Holocaust Memorial
Day 2: Sachsenhausen, Plotzensee Olympic Stadium
Day 3: Berlin Wall Bernauerstrasse, Checkpoint Charlie, East Side Gallery Stasi Prison

4-Day Berlin by coach
Day 1: Travel
Day 2: Reichstag, Brandenburg Gate, Führer Bunker, Holocaust Memorial Olympic Stadium
Day 3: Berlin Wall Bernauerstrasse, Checkpoint Charlie, East Side Gallery Stasi Prison
Day 4: Travel

Note: These are sample itineraries which can be revised to meet your specific requirements

From unification in 1871 through post war partition until reunification in 1991, Berlin as the Capital city was at the heart of German domestic and foreign policies. Buildings such as the Reichstag and the Brandenburg Gate witnessed the end of Imperial power, the birth and death of regimes whose boots crushed any potential threat without mercy and eventually a return to stable democracy.

It is now more that 20 years since the momentous events which presaged the end of the Cold War and the collapse of European Communism. Despite that, the evidence of the ideologies which divided both Berlin and Germany remains.

From the Berlin Wall Memorial on Bernauer Strasse, a site which rose to prominence in the newsreel footage of August 1961, to the prison and headquarters of the infamous State Security Police, the Stasi, visiting Berlin will afford your students a far greater understanding of the history of the city in which so many of the twentieth century’s key events were played out.



Themes

  • Wilhelmine Germany
  • The Weimar Republic
  • The impact of the Great War and Versailles
  • The Rise of National Socialism
  •  Life under the Nazi Regime – Repression, prejudice and persecution
  • Coercion and Propaganda in Nazi Germany
  • Nazi economic policy; The Nazi dictatorship
  • The Holocaust
  • The fall of Hitler’s Germany
  • Aftermath of WWII and Origins of the Cold War
  • Crises during the Cold War
  • The collapse of Communism

Specifications/topics supported by this tour

KS3 > Twentieth Century World

GCSE: All AQA, OCR and Edexcel specifications featuring > Germany; 1918-1945 > International Relations, 1900-1991

A’ level: All AQA, OCR and Edexcel specifications featuring > Germany 1871-1991 > International Relations, 1879-1990

These tours are suitable for schools studying Medieval European history, at Key Stage 3, GCSE or A’ level.

Combined German Tours

Whilst a visit to Berlin will afford students the opportunity to consider the themes identified, ANGLIA is please to be able to offer a range of tours where through visiting a number of locations students really get to grips with modern German history.