Behind The Berlin Wall: The Story of a Divided City

In the first part of the tour we will speak about the basics - the historical background, the first days of the division and the structure of the Berlin Wall. We will do that next to Checkpoint Charlie and the Topography of Terror museum, where we will see an authentic part of the wall and one of the border crossigns between east and west.

From there we will go a place called The Palace of Tears - a preserved border crossing next to a train station, where we would start speakign about everyday life in the divided city, and enter the museum opened there. We will visit a border train station which was closed for 29 years, where we will see how the underground rail system was divided.

In the wall memorial in Bernauer Str. we will see where some escape tunnels were located and try to understand how the life of the people there looked like when one bank was in the east, and the other in the west.

We will finish at the East Side Gallery, where we will speak about the remembrance of the Berlin Wall nowadays.