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The permanent exhibition Topography of Terror. Gestapo, SS and Reich Security Main Office on Wilhelm- und Prinz-Albrecht-Straße tells you about these institutions and the crimes that were organised there. At five locations, photographs and documents illustrate the history from the time the Nazis took power until the end of the war.
This center for the documentation of Nazi crimes attracts hundreds of thousands of visitors every year. The site known since 1987 as the "Topography of Terror" was the central location from which the Nazis palnned and managed most of their crimes.
Exhibitions. Topography of Terror. Admission free. approx. 60 Minutes. German, English. The major focus of the permanent exhibition of the “Topography of Terror” is on the central institutions of the SS and police in the Third Reich and the crimes they committed across Europe.
One of Berlin’s most famous museums, the Topography of Terror was built on land once occupied by the terror organs of the Nazi regime – the international base of operations for the SS (Schutzstaffel) paramilitary organisation and GeStaPo secret police – the Reich Security Main Office (RSHA).
The grounds of the "Topography of Terror" (Topographie des Terrors) are located next to the Gropius Bau and not far from Potsdamer Platz. The exhibition stands on the historical site of the main organs of Nazi terror between 1933 and 1945, i.e. the Gestapo (which had its own jail), the SS leadership, the security services of the SS (SD) and the ...
An open-air exhibition documents the history of this site as the control center of the National Socialist program of persecution and annihilation. Staff members of the Topography of Terror documentation center managed to preserve a section of the Berlin Wall at a time when the Wall was scheduled to be removed from the city center entirely.
The library of the Topography of Terror is a publicly accessible specialist scientific resource. It currently contains approximately 40,000 media units, 100 current periodicals and 100 past periodicals. It is a non-lending library. For inter-library loans, copies can be sent.
