Prenzlauer Berg

This guide to Prenzlauer Berg in Berlin centers on Fat Hermann, a disused nineteenth-century water tower that the Nazi party's SA took over just weeks after Hitler came to power in 1933, turning its old engine house into what historians call a wild concentration camp. It follows the neighbors who began hearing screams from the tower at night, and the communists, socialists and Jews dragged inside with no trial and no register of their names. Look up at the squat red brick cylinder still standing over the neighborhood today.