nazi germany

Whenever tourists think about Berlin architecture, I believe they picture two things in their minds: the modern glass buildings around Potsdamer Platz and the Prussian palaces and boulevards. But there is a massive residential complex in Berlin-Schöneberg that can tell a much more complicated story. If you are interested in history and architecture as much as I am, you shouldn’t miss the Grazer Damm housing estate. This is not a normal residential complex; this is what Nazi Germany thought about urban planning.

Finding the Grazer Damm: A Deep Dive into Berlin’s Dark Architectural History

Berlin (category)
6 min read
20/02/202623/03/2026

Berlin is a city with a weird tendency to discard airports. The city goes through them so fast that it’s hard to remember all of them. One of these airports was called Flugplatz Schönwalde, and here I will tell you about its history.

Flugplatz Schönwalde: Exploring Berlin’s Ghost Airport and Its WWII Secrets

Berlin (category), Urbex (category)
8 min read
28/10/202502/12/2025

Berlin is a city layered with history that offers countless sites that narrate its complex past. While landmarks like the Brandenburg Gate and the Berliner Fernsehturm are globally recognized, a less-visited yet profoundly significant site lies in the southern district of Mariendorf: the Martin Luther Memorial Church. Often starkly referred to as the Berlin Nazi Church, this building provides a unique and unsettling glimpse into the intertwining of faith and fascism during the Third Reich.

Berlin’s Enduring Nazi Church: The Martin Luther Memorial in Mariendorf

Berlin (category)
9 min read
17/05/202518/05/2025

Berlin is a city that pulsates with history and bears the unforgettable marks of its tumultuous past. Especially when you consider the last century. Among the most striking and haunting remnants are the monuments of the Nazi Architecture era. This period sought to reshape the city into the grandiose capital of "Germania."

Echoes of the Reich: Uncovering Nazi Architecture in Berlin

Berlin (category)
8 min read
02/05/202530/04/2025

Berlin is a city rich in history, with its vibrant present often built on the remnants of a complex and, at times, troubling past. While iconic landmarks like the Brandenburg Gate and the Reichstag attract millions of visitors, there are quieter sites that hold equally profound stories. One such site is the memorial dedicated to the former Columbia-Haus, situated on Columbiadamm near the expansive grounds of the former Tempelhof Airport.

Echoes of Terror: Visiting the Memorial to Berlin’s Columbia-Haus

Berlin (category)
9 min read
07/04/202510/04/2025

Discover the National Socialism Documentation Center in Köln, Germany. As the largest regional memorial site dedicated to the victims of the Nazi regime, it offers a remarkable journey through Cologne's history during the Nazi era. You will immerse yourself in its exhibitions, witness the preserved Gestapo prison, and gain invaluable insights into this significant European history chapter.

Exploring the National Socialism Documentation Center in Köln

Germany (category), Köln (category)
6 min read
30/05/202319/12/2023

The Unholy relics of Nazi Germany is a half-hour documentary from the BBC. In the show, Jonathan Meades presents the role of urban planning and architecture in establishing the Nazi regime in Germany and how it helped perpetuate its hateful ideology.

Unholy Relics of Nazi Germany with Jonathan Meades

Germany (category)
4 min read
02/07/202225/03/2024

The House where the Wannsee Conference happened during the Second World War belonged to Reinhard Heydrich, who got the house as an entertainment center for those who belonged to the SS and their families. And Reinhard Heydrich was an essential man inside the Nazi Party. Above him, only Adolf Hitler, Hermann Göring and Heinrich Himmler. He used the house as a meeting place for 15 other officials that got together to decide something that was described in a bureaucratic way. But, without any euphemistic terminology, those people had lunch while they talked about how the Holocaust would happen.

A Visit to the House of the Wannsee Conference in Berlin

Berlin (category)
6 min read
04/01/201920/01/2025

Located in the western outskirts of Berlin, the Berlin-Grunewald station was used to deport Jews to ghettos and extermination camps in the east. Today, where all of this happened, there is the Platform 17 Memorial inaugurated in January 1998 to commemorate the deportation done by Deutsche Reichsbahn during the years of Nazi Germany.

Platform 17 Memorial Berlin: A Site of Holocaust Remembrance

Berlin (category)
5 min read
30/10/201812/03/2024

It was early June 1945 when LIFE Magazine published an article titled the The Battered Face of Germany showing all the destruction caused by the Second World War in Germany. This article was published not long after the surrender of Germany where, today, we have the Russian German Museum in Karlshorst. In this article you could see amazing pictures made from the air by Margaret Bourke-White who would later be accredited as the first american woman to photograph in the Second World War. Also, the first authorized to fly on combat missions. Her pictures showed the devastation of Germany and show the pattern of destruction caused by Allied air bombing.

Second World War in Germany: The Battered Face of a Country

Berlin (category), Germany (category)
3 min read
09/03/201601/12/2023

Officially known as Konzentrationslager Posen, Fort VII was a Nazi concentration camp in Poznan during the Second World War. Nobody knows for sure, but there are different estimates that tell that, between 4.500 and 20.000 people died at Konzentrationslager Posen and we spent an afternoon there exploring the place.

Fort VII: visiting the Konzentrationslager Posen in Poznan

Poland (category), Poznan (category)
7 min read
24/10/201403/12/2023

Exploring Poznan: Park Cytadela

Poland (category), Poznan (category)
6 min read
02/09/201427/02/2024

SS Brotfabrik Urban Exploration Berlin

Exploring the Abandoned SS Brotfabrik in Oranienburg

Germany (category), Urbex (category)
5 min read
11/08/201411/07/2025

A Visit to the Ruined Bunkers in Wunsdorf

Berlin (category)
10 min read
22/06/201402/03/2025

Ghosts of Krampnitz: A Journey Through Time

Urbex (category)
9 min read
16/02/201427/08/2024