Stasi Museum Berlin

Things to do when it's raining in Berlin:
1. Sleep
2. Eat
3. Go to a museum

Today I visited the Topography of Terror exhibition, also referred to as the "Gestapo, SS and Reich Security Main Office on Wilhelm- and Prinz-Albrecht-Straße." This documentation center, sitting on the line of the Berlin Wall, originally served as …

We started out our final day in Berlin with another breakfast at our hostel. The breakfast wasn't quite as good, at one point all they had was cheese, and at another point they only had enormous spoons. Rainy weather had been predicted and was exactly what was occuring. Fortunately, I had planned for this and had a rain proof jacket and an …

We started out our final day in Berlin with another breakfast at ourhostel. The breakfast wasn't quite as good, at one point all they had was cheese, and at another point they only had enormous spoons. Rainy weather had been predicted and was exactly what was occurring. Fortunately, I had planned for this and had a rain proof jacket and an …

Berlin is a gorgeous city! It has such an amazing history. On our first day we did a four hour walking tour that was so interesting. We saw everything from the Brandenburg Gate to the old resients of Hitler and the Berlin Wall. The history of Germany is incredibly interesting.

Friday after the German History Museum, we did the Meiningers …

... government and system of living, but don't you dare touch our traffic light guy. We then went by the Stasi Museum about the secret police of East Germany (a FREE museum as well, but all in German -- they have a book in English, but it only translates ...

... waiting in the line. After the Reichstag, I caught the U-bahn and headed into East Berlin to visit Forschungs und Gedenkstatte Normannenstasse (the Stasi Museum).  The Stasi Museum is located in Magdalenenstrasse.  After exiting the U-bahn ...

... how ridiculous this wall really was.  Next, I'm finally going to get out to see the Stasi prison.  I couldn't find the Stasi museum I was looking for the other day, so I'm giving up on it.  The prison, however, should be really ...

... , unlike the unhelpful French!). After a hangover McDonalds stop, we headed to Leipzig.   In Leipzig we visited the Stasi Museum, an interesting collection of documents and machines used to spy on the people of East Germany, then we headed to the ...

... of the Stasi.  They have a museum there and will do a guided tour in English on Wednesday.  After I gave up on the Stasi museum, I wandered around town for a while to see what I might stumble upon.  I found one of the three remaining ...

... , and was the starting demonstration point for public gatherings to push to end communism in this part of East Germany. Leipzig also has a Stasi Museum, with memorabilia on the GDR´s most infamous secret police force. The train takes me into Berlin, ...

... of the Iron Curtain. We gained so much historical knowledge in Berlin and our puzzle was complete. Along with a visit to the Stasi Museum (GDR secret service), and with just talking to our couch surfing host Olaf about his experiences of living in the ...

... we didn't get to spend long there. We visited a few more places, including an old watch tower near Potsdamer Platz and the Stasi Museum, but I was a little bored as I knew a lot of the history Andrew was telling us. It was interesting to hear it in ...

... wall or from east into the west, crazy stories + Topography of Terror - describes the history of the Nazi Gestapo + The Stasi Museum - covers the history of the secret police of east Germany, largest secret police ever created in the world (they had 1 ...

... that did this to me. Them and their free vodka... Bastards! *Shakes fist angrily at sky* Anyway, we went first to the Stasi Museum and learned all about the Stasi and the cool James Bond type of stuff they used, their cruel and unusual information ...