Berlin Walking Tours
With a Local Historian

This two-hour 'walking discussion' will take you off the beaten track and away from the big sites to explore the essentials of Nazism. We'll discuss why ordinary people supported the Reich as we stroll through a residential area. We'll stop by the old synagogue to discuss what drove their infamous Jewish policies and use a nearby park as a metaphor to help us understand their foreign policies. We'll also catch a glimpse of what it was like to fight on the streets of Berlin in 1945, using a role-playing technique that helps put you in the place of local commanders on both sides.

This experience is less a chronology of the rise of the Nazis and more a deeper dive into the WHY's of it all. By the end, you will have explored a now vibrant Berlin neighbourhood and unlocked some of its secrets, all of which will give you a deeper and more rounded picture of those disturbing 12 years. You'll also catch a glimpse of life in modern Berlin which helps you understand the profound changes which have taken place since the war.

Duration: 2 hours

In this two-hour walk, you'll trace the city's past through several major squares and monuments on a tour full of those wonderful "a-ha, now I get it!" moments.

You'll uncover the secrets of the "Lost Berlin," whose entire medieval core was destroyed, completely redesigned, and then reimagined yet again.

Walking around the heat of old Berlin is like discovering a lost city if you know what to look for and how to see it.

You'll see how the politics of the last 150 years have reshaped the face of the city, resulting in entire buildings being moved, rebuilt, and replaced and reinterpreted. The city centre is like an ever-changing puzzle, and this tour will show you how the pieces fit together in the heart of the largely vanished old city.



Duration: 2 hours

Come explore Berlin through the eyes of that legendary fictional detective, Bernie Gunther, whose exploits in Berlin in the 1920s, 30s, 40s and 50s have captured the hearts of millions of readers.

We'll explore some of Bernie's favourite hangouts, his homes, his workplace and the scenes of some of the crimes that were so masterly chronicled by his creator, the writer Philip Kerr.

Along the way, you'll get to see Berlin through his eyes, explore what these sites meant to the real citizens of Berlin, and get to know the city as a local might have known it in the tumultuous years of the Weimar Republic, the Third Reich, and the DDR. We'll hit a range of places both well-known and off the beaten track and learn the stories of the events that shaped Bernie's world.
You'll come away having seen a few of the big sites, but perhaps the greatest interest will be those places we visit which only a hardened local like Bernie would know about.

Duration: 3 hours