Topography of Terror
Excavated ruins of the Gestapo and SS headquarters, with an indoor exhibition beside a preserved stretch of the Berlin Wall.
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This guide to the Topography of Terror in Berlin begins at an address that, from 1933, housed the Gestapo and the SS, and at the house prison in the basement of a former arts and crafts school. It follows what happened to the site after the war, including a stretch of years when it served as a driving practice ground, and the Swiss architect who was hired in the nineties to give it a memorial. Best heard standing on the open ground above the excavated cellars.
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