The Russian Monument on the Strasse des 17. Juni

(picture: the Hitlerpages, 2009)

Above: The Brandenburger Tor in 1924 (picture: Berlin, Damals und Heute, 2009) Below: The Brandenburger Tor today

Above and below:
The Brandenburger Tor in 2009
(pictures: The Hitlerpages, 2009)

The Reichstag in 1928

(picture: Hauptstadt Berlin, 2008)

After the fire in 1933

(picture: The Gestapo 1933- 1945, 2004)

Every day a lot of tourists visit the Reichstag.

(picture: the Hitlerpages, 2009)

The front of the Reichstag

(picture: www.wikipedia.de)

The backside of the building. The Berlin wall ran close behind it.

(picture: the Hitlerpages, 2009)

The front of the building

(picture: the Hitlerpages, 2009)

On the roof of the Reichstag

(picture: the Hitlerpages, 2009)

Reichsrat (1)

Location: The Reichsrat had it’s gatherings inside a room of the building of the Reichstag.

Today: Not sure about the exact room

On February 2, 1933 Hitler spoke for the Reichsrat. The Reichsrat was a legislative body in Germany under the Weimar constitution. All German states were represented in it. The Reichsrat could veto the Reichstag’s bills; but the Reichstag could overrule the veto. The Reichsrat remained very powerful, because a majority of two-thirds in the Reichstag was needed to overrule veto’s and the Reichstag had too many different parties. After 1933 the Reichsrat was deprived of its powers and later formally abolished.

Preußischen Landtag (18)

Location: corner Stresemannstraße and Niederkirchnerstraße

Today: The Abgeordnetenhaus is located here now.

Before 1933 the Preußischen Landtag was located here. In the times of National Socialism the building was used as Volksgerichthof, later on as Preußenhaus and after that it became the Haus der Flieger, a part of the Rechsluftfahrtministerium. On December 11, 1932 Adolf Hitler spoke here in the Plenarsaal of the Preußischen Landtag.

The building of the Prusian Landtag in 1932

(picture: www.wikipedia.de

(c) Bundesarchiv)

The same building today

(pictures: the Hitlerpages, 2009)

The Reich President’s Palace

© public domain, source: www.wikipedia.de

The Kroll Opera House in 1920 (picture: Berlin, Damals und Heute, 2009)

The Königsplatz in front of the Reichstag in 1935. The Siegessäule is still there. Behind it is the Kroll Oper.

(picture: Hauptstadt Berlin, 1990)

The location of the Kroll Oper today. The opera house was located in the park behind the road.

(picture: the Hitlerpages, 2009)

Hitler speaks at the Kroll Oper, March 19, 1941. Göring is right behind him.

(picture: Hitlers Handlangers, 2004)

Reichstag meeting on April 28, 1939 (picture: Reichshauptstadt Berlin, 2009)

The Königsplatz is called Platz der Republik now. The location of the opera house was at the end of the field in front of the Reichstag.

(picture: the Hitlerpages, 2009)

The hotel in 1936
(picture: Hauptstadt Berlin, 1990)

The remains of the hotel in 1945
 

The North Korean Ambassy was built at the Kaiserhof location.
(picture: the Hitlerpages, 2009)

Hitler in Hotel Kaiserhof in January 1933

Hitler inside  hotel Kaiserhof

Hitler on the balcony of the extension of the old Reichskanzlei in 1938. Behind the crowded Wilhelmplatz you can see a small part of the hotel on the left side of the picture.

(picture: Hitler, De Aanslagen, 2006)

THE HITLER PAGES

HISTORICAL HITLER SITES

The government district in Berlin was located at the Wilhelmstrasse. This page shows the most prominent Hitler sites in the area between the Reichstag (North), the Niederkirchner Strasse (South), the Tiergarten (West) and the Mauerstrasse (East), together with some information about Albert Speers plans for the remake of Berlin: Germania.

1. Reichstag 2. Kroll Oper

3. Germania, Great Hall 4. Sovjet Ehrenmal

5. Brandenburger Tor 6. Hotel Adlon

6a. Central Office for the Construction in the Reich Capital 7. Goebbel’s Town Villa

8. Reichspresidents Palace 9. Führerbunker

10. Old Reichskanzlei 10a. Office Führers Deputy 11. New Reichskanzlei 12. Ministry Of Propaganda (Goebbels) 13. U-Bahn Morenstrasse 14. Hotel Kaiserhof 15. Preußischen Herrenhaus 16. Ministry Of Aviation (Göring) 17. Konzert-haus Clou 18. Preußischer Landtag 18a. Göring’s Stadtvilla 19. Topografy des Terrors 20. Gestapo Headquarters 21. SS Headquarters 22. SD Headquarters 23. Angriff House 24. Germania, Arc de Triomphe (scroll down) 25. Germania, South Station 26. Germania, Heavy Load Testing Body 27. Location burning of Hitler and Brauns bodies

Germania, Großen Halle (3) and (24), (25), (26)

Location: Platz der Republik (than called Königsplatz), next to the Reichstag

Today: The Großen Halle (Great Hall) was never realised.

Adolf Hitler and Albert Speer had great plans with Berlin. An impressive road with large buildings had to run from the Platz der Republik to the General-Pape-Strasse. On the Platz der Republik a very large building, the Great Hall, was to be built. Where the bridge between the Dudenstrasse and the Kolonnenstraße is today, an Arc de Triomphe was to be built. At the end of the road, somewhere in the area of the General-Pape-Strasse, a large station (South Station) had to arise. Although building had begun, for instance in the Reichstag-area, and families were already forced to leave their houses, not much of the plan was realised. Today for instance only the changed location of the Siegessäule and the heavy load testing body on the corner of the General-Pape-Straße and the Löwenhardtdamm remind of the plans.

A scale model of Germania. In front is the roof of the South Station. Behind it is the Arc de Triomph and in the back is the Great Hall.

(picture: Het Nazisme, 2007)

This scale model, made for the movie Der Untergang, was part of a temporary exhibition called Mythos Germania in Berlin, near the Voßstrasse. The Great Hall is the large building in the centre.

(picture: Mythos Germania, 2009)

This model shows how large the Great Hall was going to be. The ‘small’ buildings in front of it are the Brandenburger Tor and the Reichstag. (picture: Mythos Germania, 2009)

The working grounds of the Great Hall in 1938. In the back the roof of the Reichstag.

(picture: Reichshauptstadt Berlin, 2009)

Hitlers sketch of the Great Hall

A model of Albert Speers Great Hall

Speers Schwerbealstungskörper was ment to test if the Berlin grounds

for the large buildings planned.

(picture: Reichshauptstadt Berlin, 2009)

Hotel Adlon (6)
Location: Unter den Linden 75-77
Today: Severely dammaged in the war and demolished after the war. Rebuilt and reopened in 1997.
Another hotel, the hotel Kaiserhof, was the most prominent nazi-hotel in Berlin. After it got bombed in 1943, the Hotel Adlon, that actually was the most luxurious hotel in the city, became more of a meeting point of prominent nazi’s.

The hotel in 1914

(picture: Berlin, Damals und Heute, 2009)

The main entrance of the hotel and the side of the hotel on the Wilhelmstrasse, in 2009 (pictures: the Hitlerpages, 2009)

The hotel today (picture: Raimond Spekking, wikimedia commons)

Goebbels Town Villa (7)
Location: Corner Ebertstrasse (former Hermann-Göringstrasse)- Behrenstrasse
Today: Gone. Only the bunker that was underneath the villa, is still there, under the ground. The Jewish monument is there now. The Behrenstrasse didn’t used to be there. It stopped at the Wilhelmstrasse.
One of Goebbels houses stood at this location.

Goebbels Town Villa after it was bombed (picture: LIFE Magazin 1945)

The Jewish Monument.
(picture: the Hitlerpages, 2009)

Inspection of the bombed villa. On this picture are, among others, Goebbels, Bormann and Keitel. (picture: Van Capelle and Van de Bovencamp, 2007))

The Vorbunker was demolished to make way for apartments. This picture was taken on July 18, 1988

The exit of the bunker on July 5, 1945 (picture: After The Battle,1988)

The Russians said that these were Hitler’s remains.

And these are said to be Braun’s remains.

Führerbunker (9), (27)
Location: Crossing and parking space of In der Ministergarten and the Gertrud-Kolmar-Strasse. Underneath it are the remains of the Führerbunker.
Today: Even in the ground there’s not much more left of the bunker than the ground plate and parts of the wall.
In the garden of the new and old Reichskanzlei a double bunker was built: the Vorbunker and, on a lower level, the Führerbunker. Hitler spend the last period of his life inside the Führerbunker. He married Eva Braun there and both of them commited suïcide there. What happened to the bodies is not clear. On this website you’ll find some places where Russian sources state the bodies have been burried. A small but accurate book about the Führerbunker is Sven Felix Kellerhoff’s Mythos Führerbunker. There never was any information on site about the bunker, but since 2006 there is an informationstand near the bunkersite.

Above and below: The playground near the bunkerlocation

(pictures: the Hitlerpages 2004)

Centre, both pictures: Below this crossing are the remains of the Führerbunker  Right: The Reichskanzlei garden area seen from the apartments near it  (pictures: the Hitlerpages 2009)

Centre: The bunker site. There was no information about the bunker on the site at that time (2004). Right: Today there is a sign giving information about the Hitler bunker. (pictures: the Hitlerpages, 2004-2009)

The Reichskanzlei area. The black building in the centre of the picture is on the corner of the Voßstrasse. Behind it you can see the Jewish monument and the apartment buildings on the Wilhelmstrasse.

(picture: the Hitlerpages, 2011)

Hitler’s remains (27)
Location: Garden New Reichskanzlei, crossing of In der Ministergarten and the Gertrud-Kolmar-Strasse
Today: There’s a road now on the location where the bodies might have been burried in April 1945.
There’s always been a lot of discussion about the remains of Hitler and Eva Braun. There’s a list of alleged locations of Hitler graves, mostly consisting of Russian SMERSH-compounds. It is said that the bodies of Hitler, Braun and the family Goebbels were moved several times. After a while Hitlers body was burned near Schönebeck and the remains were thrown into a river near Biederitz. Some remains were taken to Moscow. Another version, in which Hitlers body was never found, seems very likely too. The basic story here is that the bodies of Hitler and Braun were on fire for a day on a piece of ground that was under permanent fire. After the shooting had stopped there were lots of dead bodies in the garden of the Reichskanzlei. The bodies of Hitler and Braun were never found. The story that the skull of Hitler in Moscow was actually the skull of a woman, isn’t that surprising, when you consider what the garden must have looked like.
The locations where Hitler was burried according to Russian sources:
1. Berlin, Garden Reichskanzlei
2. Berlin-Buch (Berlin), pathology clinic
3. Finow (Brandenburg), norteast of Berlin
4. Rathenow (Brandenburg), west of Berlin
5. Magdeburg (Sachsen-Anhalt), East-Germany
6. Schönebeck (Sachsen-Anhalt)
7. Biederitz (Sachsen-Anhalt), Ehle river, where the ashes are said to have been scattered. Some parts of the remains of Hitlers body, like the teath and the skull, are said to be still in possession of the Russian government. Recently the news came that the skull was not Hitlers, but the skull of a woman. There is a tv-documentary in wich the Russians present the material they were willing to show, like the teath of Hitler, his uniforms and the leg-prothese of Goebbels.

There has always been discussion about the authenticity of Hitler’s skull. This is the skull that was said to be his, but is now said to be of an unknown woman...

(picture: Neumann and Eberle, 2009)

At the archives of the former KGB in Moscow are these teeth. It seems that dentists have confirmed that these teeth are Hiters.

(picture: Neumann and Eberle, 2009)

Central Office for the Construction in the Reich Capital (6a)
Location: Pariser Platz 2/4
Today: Acadamy Of Fine Arts. The front of the building is completely renewed. Speers studios must still be there.

Albert Speer planned constructions for the new Berlin here. Doors were made in the gardenwalls so Hitler could enter through the backside of the building from the Reichskanzlei gardens. He often came here to look at the models of Germania and to discuss plans with Speer.

Akademie der Künste, 1907

(picture: www.adk.de, Christian Kaushaar)

The same building in 1950

(picture: www.adk.de)

The new building was not there untill 2005. (picture: www.wikipedia.de)

2009: Work in progress. The cellar remains are still there. Behind them a piece of the Berlin wall. Behind that you can see Görings Air Force Ministry.
(picture: the Hitlerpages, 2009)

Göring’s Stadtvilla (18a)

Location: Leipziger Platz 11

Today: Gone

Göring had a villa next to the building of the Preußischen Landtag. The Berliner Adressbuch shows that he still lived at the Kaiserdamm 34, in an apartment on the third floor, in 1933. In 1934 his address is the Leipziger Platz 11.  In the years that followed Göring turned the building next to his house into a Haus der Flieger. His Airforce Administration Building was built behind it, along the Wilhelmstrasse. Together with his first wife, Carin, Hermann Göring owned houses on the Berchtesgadener Strasse 16 and on the Badenschen Strasse 7.

The wedding of dr. Brandt and Anni Rehborn took place in Göring’s house at the Leipziger Platz.

(picture: Neumann and Eberle, 2009)

A map of the area of Göring’s house. The location has number 26 on this map (left of the Haus der Flieger).

(picture: Capelle and Bovencamp, 2007)

Göring’s Stadtvilla behind the Leipziger Platz

(picture: Capelle and Bovencamp, 2007)

Next to the building of the Pruißischen Lantag, behind the parkingplace, was once Görings Stadtvilla.

(picture: the Hitlerpages, 2009)

Göring in his garden on Januari 12, 1935: his 42nd birthday. In the background is the building of the Pruißischen Landtag.

(picture: Capelle and Bovencamp, 2007)

Hitler and Himmler in front of the Old Kanzlei on januari 30, 1938

The old Reichskanzlei

(picture: Hauptstadt Berlin, 1990)

The Reichskanzlei on

Januari 30, 1933

(picture: Reichshauptstadt Berlin, 2009)

Hitler in front of his Berlin home in November 1934

Inside the Reichskanzlei on July 12, 1937. Hitler talks with Thomas J. Watson, head of IBM.

Inside Hitlers apartment

(pictures: LIFE magazine)

On this picture the balcony has been placed. (picture: After the Battle , 1988)

The Kanzlei-extension without the balcony (picture: After the Battle , 1988)

The old Reichskanzlei with its extension, march 1941

(picture: Mythos Germania, 2009)

A view of the Wilhelmstrasse in 1937 with the new part of the old Reichskanzlei in the centre

(picture: Berlin, Damals und Heute, 2009)

Hitler hanging out a window of the Kanzlei to greet the crowd in 1933. A bolcony was needed. (picture: After the Battle , 1988)

The extension of the old Reichkanzlei after the war

Office Führer’s Deputy (10a)

Location: Wilhelmstrasse 54

Today: Still there, used by the Federal Ministry of Consumer Protection, Nutricion and Agriculture

The building, that already existed before 1933, at first became Ribbentrop’s Office and the office of the party’s liaison. Rudolf Hess and later Martin Bormann were in command here.

The NSDAP headquarters in the Wilhelmstrasse

(picture: Van Capelle and Van de Bovenkamp, 2007)

The office of Hess and Bormann in 2009 (picture: the Hitlerpages, 2009)

Hitler on March 19, 1945, some-where in the Reichskanzlei area

Hitler with Tiso, the leader of Czecho-Slovakia, inside the Reichskanzlei on March 14, 1939

This is one of the last pictures of Hitler. It was made in April 1945. Hitler watches the ruïnes of the Reichskanzlei

April 20, 1939: Hitler in the Mercedes he got for his 50th birthday.

Working men worked day and night to get the Kanzlei ready. This picture was made in 1938.

The Reichskanzlei in 1940
(picture: Hauptstadt Berlin, 1990)

The garden side of the New Reichskanzlei

(picture: After The Battle, 1988)

The material this hall was made of can be found back at the Russian monument at the Treptow Park.

(picture: After The Battle, 1988)

The area of the Voßstrasse when the Berlin wall was still there. In the front of the picture is the Leipziger Platz. Behind it is the Voßstrasse.
(picture: After The Battle, 1988)

The ruïns of the Kanzlei after the war. The street in front of it is the Wilhelmstrasse.
(picture: After The Battle, 1988)

Hitler meets the Norwegian right wing leader Vidkun Quisling in Berlin in January 1945, exact location unknown.

The red marble of station Mohrenstrasse
(picture: Christian Petermann, 2009)
 

The station entrance
(picture: the Hitlerpages, 2009)

Station Mohrenstrasse
(picture: the Hitlerpages, 2011)