BRANDENBURG

Rennbahngelände
Location: near the airfield on the Burger Chaussee is something that looks like a Rennbahn (horse track). The Rennbahn lies on the Fichtestrasse
Today: not sure about the exact location and authenticity of the Rennbahn, it looks like there’s a soccer field now
On Juli 20, 1932 40.000 people listened to Adolf Hitler at the Rennbahngelände. After the election for the Reichtag in Juli 1932 the NSDAP was the strongest party in Cottbus.
There was an Airfield built on or near the Rennbahngelände. The airfield can be found back. It looks like there is a Rennbahn (horse track) near it. We’ve got no proof that it’s the same track. (only source: Google Earth)
Parts of the Focke-Wulf Flugzeugwerke were in Cottbus since 1939 at different locations in the city.

KZ Oranienburg
Location: on the wall of the old Brewery on the Berliner Strasse 20 that was right next to the concentration camp
Today: there’s a stone that remebers the camp on the exact location and a stone that remebers Erich Mühsam
As far as we know Hitler never visited the Konzentrationslager Oranienburg. It is mentioned here because it was the first concentration camp that was opened after Hitler got in control of Germany. It was opened in March of 1933. For instance communists, social democrats, members of the reichstag and jews were put in this camp, that was closed in 1934. It was housed in an old factory and on the factory grounds in the middle of Oranienburg. The KZ Sachsenhausen is another camp in Oranienburg, that was built in 1936.

Beelitz-Heilstätten (southwest of Berlin)
Street from Beelitz to Fichtenwalde, between the trees
Today: The large hospital has fallen into decay, but it’s still there.
Hitler was at the red cross hospital in Beelitz between October 9 and December 1, 1916 to recover from war injuries. We he recovered he went to Berlin for the first time. It is known that he went to see the Nationalgalerie.

Reichsführerschule
Location: Bernau is a place a little north of Berlin, exact location not known
Today: must still be there
This school used to be the Bundesschule des Algemeinen Deutschen Gewerkschaftsbundes. On July 16, 1933 the school was reopend in the presence of Adolf Hitler as Reichsschule der NSDAP und der Deutschen Arbeids Front (DAF). The school became an institute for the Sicherheitsdienst (SD) in 1936. In a speech Hitler ordered the buiding of more schools. Three NSDAP-Ordensburgen were built: Crössinsee (Pommern), Sonthofen (Allgäu) and Vogelsang (Eifel).

Eberswalde Stadion/Städtische Stadion
Location: Am Stadion 1
Today: Fritz-Lesch-Stadion
When Adolf Hitler and Hermann Göring went to Carinhall, they came through Eberswalde a lot. Hitler held a election speech in Eberswalde on Juli 27, 1932. There’s a movie made of this speech, that is known on the internet as the Wir Sind Intolerant speech.

Kämfende Amazone
Location: in the Park am Weidendamm
Today: still there
The sculpture of Franz von Stuck, Kämpfende Amazone (1897) used to be in Carinhall.

Schloss Harnekop (Schloss Monchoix)
Harnekop is 60 km. Northeast of Berlin, near the border of Poland. The village lies on the Schlosssee. There’s a dam over the lake that led to the Schloss. The Schlosspark is on the left side of the West bank of the river (when you‘ve come from the village, heading to the Lindenallee)
Today: After the war 90 procent of the village was destroyed. The rest of the Schoss was used to rebuilt the village. There is nothing that reminds of the castle itself.
March 3, 1945 was the last time Hitler left Berlin. He went to see the troops on the Oderfront. He talked to the staff in this Schloss.
At the end of the Lindenallee is the Atombunker Harnekop, the largest Atombunker in the DDR. It’s now open to the public.

Bogensee Estate Joseph Goebbels
Location: Lanke Am Bogensee, near Nikolai Ostrowski Strasse, northwest of Bogensee
Today: still there, complex turned into a youth academy, it was vacant in 1999
Goebbels used to live here with his family.

Ostmarkstadion
Location: the stadium is in Slubice (Poland) on the other side of the Oder; the stadium is located on the Southeast of Slubice; take the 29 road to the Southeast, turn left after a gasstation near the forrest; the stadium turns up on your right
Today: the stadium is still there; it’s called the Stadion Olimpijski Slubice or OSiR
In 1927 the new stadium of Frankfurt aan de Oder was ready. About ten years later Hitler held a speech there.

Garnison
Location: sevral locations
Today: not sure, the building of the Hindeburg Kaserne (for instance) still exists
A picture shows Hitler in the stables of what is called the Garnison. There were a lot of army buildings in Frankfurt an der Oder: the Bülow Kaserne, the Eichhorn Kaserne, the Feldzeugmeister Kaserne, the Fliegerhorst, the Hindenburg Kaserne, the Horn Kaserne, the Kleist Kaserne, the Nuhen Kaserne and the Ziethen Kaserne. We don’t know in which Kaserne the Hitler picture was taken.

Garnisonskirche
Today: destroyed at the end of the war, remains tore down in DDR in 1968; there are plans to rebuilt the tower (and the rest of the church)
On 2 October 1932 Hitler attends a gathering of 110.000 girls and boys of the Hitlerjugend in Potsdam. He speaks for about 15 minutes. The 21st of March of 1933 is known as the day of Potsdam. The opening of the new Reichstag takes place in the Garnisonskirche. Reichspresident Hindenburg and Hitler were there.

Schloss Cecilienhof
Location: Potsdam Neuer Garten, Im Neuen Garten, 14469 Potsdam
Today: Hotel
The Schloss was built for crown prince Wilhelm and his family. Hitler visited the crown prince, who supported Hitler, in 1926 in Cecilienhof. Hitler visited Cecilienhof Castle also in 1933 and 1935.
Cecilienhof was also used to reach the Potsdam Agreement between America, Great Britain, France and Russia after the war.

Park Sanssouci
Location: Maulbeerallee, Park Sanssouci
Today: still there
Hitler and Mussolini visit the park on September 28, 1937.

Carinhall
Location: Schorfheide, north of Berlin, between both lakes Grösser Döllnsee and Wuchersee
Today: destroyed, gate houses, crypt, bunkers and tunnel still there
Carinhall was Hermann Görings hunting farm. His first wives remains were brought here to be buried in a crypt. The remains of Carin Göring are not longer here. They’re in Scandinavia in a family grave. Göring had Carinhall destroyed at the end of the war.

Hitler’s remains
Location: unknown
The remains of Hitler have been burried at different locations. For a while they were burried in Rathenau, west of Berlin.

Spreewald
Location: Landkreisen Spree-Neiße, Dahme-Spreewald and Oberspreewald-Lausitz. Largest town in the area: Lübben; exact location unknown
One of the pictures in a Hoffman propagenda book shows Hitler in the woods in the area of the river Spree.

Negotiations with Schleicher
Location: Fürstenberg lies 80 km north of Berlin; exact location unknown
Hitler secretly negotiates with Reichswehrminister Schleicher after the elections of August 6, 1932. The NSDAP wasn’t sure about what to do. They demanded that Hitler became Reichskanzler, but when Schleicher presented it to Hindenburg, he send Schleicher away.

House of Joseph Goebbels
Location: Caputh is a village on the Schwielowsee, near Potsdam; exact location unknown
On August 12, 1932 Hitler arrived at the house of Joseph Goebbels late in the evening. Ernst Röhm was talking to Schleicher and Papen at that time about Hitler becoming Reichskanzler. The next day Hitler and Röhm met Schleicher and Papen. They told Hitler Hindenburg wasn’t going to accept him as Reichskanzler.

Truppenübungsplatz Jüterbog (Brandenburg)
Location: 65 km. south of Berlin
Today: parts of it still there, not sure about the state of it; the Russians used it untill 1993
On August 15, 1938 Hitler was at an artillery exercise in the Jüterbog army base.