The meeting approved a protocol drawn up by Adolf Eichmann for the Final Solution: the extermination of European Jewry, documented by the exhibition at the villa. Later visit the former industrialist’s villa, where the Wannsee Conference was held on 20th January 1942, chaired by Reinhard Heydrich, Head of the Reich Security Main Office. Today drive north to visit the former concentration camp of Sachsenhausen. Overnight: Melia Berlin Hotel/ Kempinski Adlon Hotelĭay 8 - Sachsenhausen, Wannsee and Berlin This afternoon you will visit Bebelplatz, where the Nazis burned thousands of books and conclude with the Topography of Terror an indoor and outdoor museum in what was formerly Prinz-Albrecht-Strasse, a sinister address associated with the Third Reich’s security apparatus. Lunch today will be in the Bundestag’s restaurant, located within the rebuilt Reichstag, whose dramatic glass dome symbolizes the reunification of Germany. Later visit the Bendlerblock for a guided visit of the German Resistance Memorial Centre and the commemorative courtyard where Claus von Stauffenberg and others were shot in 1944. Today’s tour will highlight some of the main sites associated with the Third Reich, beginning at the city’s neoclassical triumphal arch, the Brandenburg Gate, used by the Nazis as a party symbol in frequent torch-lit rallies only a hundred yards away, you will see the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe. Day 7 - Berlin’s Remnants of the Third Reich
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