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Our Berlin walking tour started with an early morning visit to the Reichstag building. Above: Norman Foster's high-tech new dome (1999), with - below - the view from it (looking east, with the River Spree running to the left)
Left & Below: The Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe - an abstract array of more than two thousand large blocks which you can walk amongst
Above: the ruined remains of the Liquid Oxygen production plant at Peenemünde
Left : site of the first V1 test launches in 1942/43 - blocks that supported the metal launch ramps (Peenemünde West airfield)
Our group explores the A3 test stand at Kummersdorf, in the woods 40 kilometers south of Berlin. This was the site of Army rocket research before the much larger Peenemünde site was built in 1937
A V2 replica at the entrance to Peenemünde Museum (housed in the former power plant)
The Baltic Sea, evening - looking north up Usedom Island towards the site of the Peenmünde complex
Inside the tunnels at Nordhausen. Right: unused V1 sections litter the ground in tunnel number 45.
Kummersdorf: the remains of the test stand on which Wherner von Braun did his PhD research !
Visiting the remains of the concentration camp at Nordhausen, where the V weapons were produced by slave labour in 1944/45
Above: looking at the remains of the Berlin Wall in Bernauerstrasse
Right: from the Glockenturm (clock tower) of the Olympic Stadium, site of the famous 1936 Berlin Games
Below: the end of our tour ! (Dr Andrew Thomson at left, with our Driver André beside him; our excellent Interpreter, Janet Berridge, is sitting in the front row)
Photo Gallery:
Peenemünde/Berlin/Nordhausen/Kummersdorf tour July 2007
Other related pages:
- Germany tours - World War II & the Cold War
- 2008 Germany group tours: The Development of the V2; and Germany - from total war to cold war