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23/05/2025

What a pleasure it was for Finn and I to meet the legendary Lindsay Ellis and explore Weimar-era Berlin history together!

07/05/2025

*This Saturday* 📆

✨ 2-Hour Berlin Basics Tour

😮 Perfect for those new in Berlin, just visiting, or fans of my page!

🗺️ We’ll cover the highlights and the history behind them: Checkpoint Charlie, the Wall, the last days of WWII, the Reichstag, the Brandenburg Gate and loads more!

🫡 Link in bio to sign up

😊 See you there!

12/02/2025

This Sat Feb 15 I’m doing a Pay What You Want tour to the concentration camp memorial at Sachsenhausen.

Before you sign up, you should know it makes for a long and cold, but interesting and important day.

Head to the link in my bio for details and to sign up.

24/11/2024

Join me on Bluesky! 🦋

18/11/2024

The headless soldier 💀

💒 It adorns the Church at Südstern, which was originally intended to be used by soldiers stationed nearby

🪖 The statue was added in 1929 to honour the Garde-Pionier-Bataillon, elite engineers who built bridges and fortifications during WWI

💣 The statue WWII bombings but due to connotations with it glorifying war, it has become a target for criticism and vandalism

🧐 Around 2008 its head was removed - apparently no one knows where it ended up!

14/11/2024

“A British bomber robbed me of my one and all” 🪦

🌳 The grave, presumably, of a mother and son in the Stahnsdorf cemetery

💥 …and WWII bombs on display in the

☝️ I just happened to visit these places days apart. The message on the graves so personal, really got me. Very often the large tragedies of WWII are reduced to how many thousands of people were killed. It’s important to remember that it was individuals who were affected.

12/11/2024

Due to popular demand, here are four more pay what you want tours you can join *this weekend* 😀

📆 On Saturday the 16th it’s Karl-Marx-Allee in the morning and Weimar Berlin in the afternoon.

📆 Then, on the 17th, Jewish Berlin under the “Third Reich” followed by a Berlin Wall History tour

🙋‍♂️ Want to sign up?  📲 Check my Story or the link in my bio!

02/11/2024

I was very lucky to spend yesterday with a wonderful school group. I’ll be honest, school tours can be challenging, but this lot were so full of questions and insights, I could really tell they were engaged and interested. What a pleasure!

31/10/2024

Comment “Tour” to sign up

or go click the link in my bio 😉

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🗺️ This weekend I thought I’d do two opposites - Karl-Marx-Allee workers’ paradise on Saturday, and its exact opposite, the Grunewald district on Sunday

📆 Yes, Nov 9 is a crazy day in German history, a (failed) revolution, an actual revolution, another failed revolution, terror, and another revolution… let’s watch out backs that day, yeah?

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REMEMBER - only sign up if you 100% definitely actually intend to come. If you can’t make it in the end, that’s cool, but cancel your ticket online so someone else can have it.

29/10/2024

Tränenpalast – the “Palace of Tears” – once marked the divide between East and West Berlin 😢

🛂 Built in 1962, this border crossing at Friedrichstraße station saw countless emotional farewells, as families and friends were torn apart by the Berlin Wall

🚉 West Berliners could visit the East for short trips, but East Berliners rarely got the chance to go the other way, making goodbyes here especially heartbreaking

✨ Today, it’s a museum where visitors can explore stories of separation, escape, and everyday life in divided Berlin

24/10/2024

The Berlin Airlift Memorial at Platz der Luftbrücke ✈️

🌍 It commemorates the huge effort of 1948-49 airlift that kept West Berlin supplied during the Soviet blockade solely by air

💼 Food, water, clothes, medicine and more were needed to keep a city with a population of 2+ million alive

🛬 At its height planes were landing in West Berlin almost once per minute

☝️ You have to think how terrifying it must have been for Berliners to have British and American flying overhead - WWII ended only 3 years before the airlift began

🕊️ 78 pilots and crew lost their lives ensuring food, fuel, and supplies reached the city

🇬🇧🇺🇸🇫🇷 Think how that changed the Berliners’ perception of the Western allies - those who destroyed the city were now risking their lives to save its people

⚡️ Over 2 million tons of supplies in less than a year

🧱 West Berlin would never face a serious, sustained blockade again, even when the Berlin went up

🐹 Nevertheless, supplies were kept on hand, just in case

🚇 You can find this memorial at Platz der Luftbrücke - it’s easily accessible via the U-Bahn station with the same name

22/10/2024

A bomb from the U.S. Army Air Forces’ 1945 raid on Oranienburg 💣

⚛️ In March 1945, over 600 bombers targeted this town to destroy a uranium facility linked to N**i nuclear research

🚫 The aim? To stop the Soviets from seizing it as they advanced towards Berlin

🔎 Despite the devastation, Soviet forces still found enough uranium here to boost their own atomic bomb project

🧨 This bomb, now safely displayed outside the historic post office near the train station, reminds us of that day, March 15, 1945, when this small town was hit with an air raid so big that usually it would have been reserved for major cities

💣 unexploded bombs are still regularly found in the area to this date

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Fun fact! About 2 years ago, while leading a tour around the Sachsenhausen memorial for @ my group and I actually heard one of these bombs being blown up. The explosion was intentional, it had been deemed that this bomb, found during routine checks for these kinds of things, was just too dangerous to dispose of any other way. That means that just once in my life have I heard a singular WWII bomb explode. I can tell you, it was a brown pants moment for all of us. It caught us all off guard.

It really made us think how terrifying it would have been to hear 600 bombers flying overhead, each of them dropping as many bombs as they could. It must have felt like the end of the world to the people of Oranienburg. What would the concentration camp prisoners have thought?

By this point, Sachsenhausen was pretty much at its most crowded, the prisoners would have known the end of the “Third Reich” was near, but would have likely felt like they themselves were in a hopeless position. Would the air raid have given them hope that the end was that bit closer? Or terrified them, thinking that they might have been hit?

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