Remaining Sections of the Berlin Wall at Checkpoint Charlie

Remaining section of Berlin Wall at Check Point Charlie

This outdoor exhibition displays information to visitors on three different topics. The photo gallery at Checkpoint Charlie was conceived and realized by the Berliner Forum für Geschichte und Gegenwart e. The exhibition aims to interest visitors in seeing these other sites and in taking a closer look at these issues and events. What began as […]

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Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp Located in Berlin Germany

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By: boutmuet Just outside Berlin, over 50,000 innocent victims of the Nazis perished in Sachsenhausen in conditions of appalling brutality. The camp became a training ground for the execution of the Holocaust and ultimately the center of the whole concentration camp system. After the Nazis were defeated, the Soviets turned the camp into a gulag […]

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