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09/11/2026

November 9th is wild!a mad one

🎩 1918: The Kaiser is pushed out and the Weimar Republic is born

🍻 1923: Hi**er tries - and fails - to seize power in the B**r Hall Putsch

⚫️ 1938: Kristallnacht, a violent wave of anti-Jewish violence sweeps across Germany

💥 November 8th (but I’m counting it anyway) 1939: Georg Elser nearly takes out Hi**er in the same Munich b**r hall where the 1923 business kicked off (and he got really close)

🪧 1989: The Berlin Wall finally falls as the result of a popular & peaceful revolution

From revolution to reunification - November 9th is a date to look out for!

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🏛️ I’m Jonny Whitlam, founder of Whitlam’s Berlin Tours. We offer private Berlin history tours with me and a small team of expert guides

🔗 whitlams-berlin-tours.com

Weridly, November 9th, by complete coincidence, is the date I moved to Germany in 2010. Lets hope that’s the closest I come to making history! 😬

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Recorded Nov 8, 2024

08/11/2026

In the last days of WWII even trees became deadly weapons 🌲

🪖 In late April 1945, the remnants of Germany’s 9th Army were trapped in the forests south-east of Berlin, desperately trying to break west towards the Americans

💥 Soviet tanks and artillery deliberately fired high-explosive shells into the pine canopy, showering those below with lethal splinters of shattered timber

⚓ Antony Beevor compares the resulting injuries to an eighteenth-century naval battle, where cannon fire turned the wooden ships themselves into weapons

🌲 In Halbe’s dense forests there was little protection and often no clear front line, just smoke, shellfire and thousands of soldiers and civilians trying to force their way through

⚰️ Current estimates put the dead at roughly 60,000: around 30,000 German soldiers, 20,000 Soviet soldiers and 10,000 civilians

🕯️ All of this happened in the final days of April 1945, with Germany’s surrender only days away

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🏛️ I’m Jonny Whitlam, founder of Whitlam’s Berlin Tours. We offer private Berlin history tours with me and a small team of expert guides

🔗 whitlams-berlin-tours.com

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06/11/2026

Three members of one family, driven to their deaths by the N***s 🕯️

🎬 Joachim Gottschalk was one of Germany’s most popular film stars in the late 1930s. His wife Meta was Jewish, and the N***s repeatedly pressured him to divorce her

❤️ He refused. In 1941 he even brought Meta to a film premiere, causing a scandal among the N**i leadership and effectively ending his career

🚂 Later that year, Meta and their eight-year-old son Michael faced deportation to Theresienstadt. Joachim begged to accompany them, but was refused

🕯️ On 6 November 1941, faced with the imminent separation of their family, all three lost their lives in their Berlin home

🚫 Goebbels banned public obituaries and even tried to prevent colleagues from attending their funeral

🎞️ Their story later inspired the 1947 film Ehe im Schatten, one of the first major German films to confront N**i persecution

🌲 Joachim, Meta and Michael are still buried together here at Stahnsdorf

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🏛️ I’m Jonny Whitlam, founder of Whitlam’s Berlin Tours. We offer private Berlin history tours with me and a small team of expert guides

🔗 whitlams-berlin-tours.com

06/11/2026

Hi**er hated this Berlin modernist masterpiece 🏢

🌊 Completed in 1932, the Shell-Haus became famous for its extraordinary wave-like façade

🎨 Hi**er reportedly accused its architect, Emil Fahrenkamp, of committing the “crime” of the Shell Building

🏛️ Yet Fahrenkamp went on to work successfully under the N***s, including projects for Hermann Göring and Joseph Goebbels, as well as plans connected to Albert Speer’s reconstruction of Berlin

🪪 In 1937 he applied to join the N**i Party, although his membership was never finalised

🏗️ The Shell-Haus survived the war, was later restored and remains one of Berlin’s most unique buildings

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🏛️ I’m Jonny Whitlam, founder of Whitlam’s Berlin Tours. We offer private Berlin history tours with me and a small team of expert guides

🔗 whitlams-berlin-tours.com

04/11/2026

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What was Berlin like during the 1936 Olympic Games? 🏅

🌍 For two weeks, N**i Germany presented a carefully staged image of a modern, welcoming and cosmopolitan capital to the world

⚫️ But behind the spectacle lay a dictatorship built on persecution, exclusion and terror

🎥 The new immersive exhibition at the New Media Art Center takes visitors back 90 years through historical footage and interactive experiences

🏛️ It’s a fascinating opportunity to explore one of the most extraordinary and contradictory moments in Berlin’s history

📍 New Media Art Center, Revaler Straße 99, Berlin

27/10/2026

🧠 Come and put your knowledge to the test at my latest Berlin History Pub Quiz on Tuesday, 3 November!

🍻 Come to the Geist im Glas in Neukölln for an evening of Berlin history, drinks and friendly competition

👥 Get a team of four together and see how much you really know about this weird old place

🏆 There’s a €40 bar tab up for grabs for the winners, and shots for the unfortunate losers!

❤️ Best of all, we’re raising money for Berlin’s Kältebus, helping people experiencing homelessness through the city’s coldest months

📍 Geist im Glas, Lenaustraße 27 📅 Tuesday, 3 November 🕖 Doors at 19:00, quiz starts at 20:00 🎟️ €8 per person

Limited spaces - it’ll get booked up quickly!

🔗 Tickets via the link in my bio. See you there!

16/10/2026

The guy with all the right ideas… ⚔️

🏛️ Gerhard von Scharnhorst became one of the key figures rebuilding Prussia’s army after Napoleon’s crushing victory at Jena and Auerstedt in 1806

🎖️ He pushed for promotion based more on ability, challenged aristocratic control of the officer corps and helped move Prussia towards a national army

🪖 With Napoleon limiting Prussia to just 42,000 soldiers, Scharnhorst helped introduce the Krümpersystem, rotating recruits through the army to create a much larger trained reserve

⚔️ He was wounded fighting Napoleon at Lützen in 1813 and died from an infection a few weeks later. His remains were eventually buried in Berlin’s Invalidenfriedhof

🍒 In 1860, the neighbouring Kirschallee, or Cherry Avenue, was renamed Scharnhorststraße in his honour

⚰️ So Scharnhorst is still here today, buried right beside the street bearing his name

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🏛️ I’m Jonny Whitlam, founder of Whitlam’s Berlin Tours. We offer private Berlin history tours with me and a small team of expert guides

🔗 whitlams-berlin-tours.com

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30/09/2026

The Berliner Dom’s cross has been replaced twice 👀

💥 The original was lost after a bomb hit the dome in 1944, setting it ablaze and causing the lantern to collapse

🏗️ During the DDR reconstruction, a new cross was placed on top in 1981. That’s the one I’m standing beside here

⚠️ In 2006, serious corrosion meant it had to be taken down and couldn’t be reused

✨ In 2008, a reconstruction of the 1981 cross was lifted onto the dome, where it remains today

📍 And the 1981 cross? You can now find it on the Domfriedhof on Liesenstraße, just a few kilometres from its old home

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🏛️ I’m Jonny Whitlam, founder of Whitlam’s Berlin Tours. We offer private Berlin history tours with me and a small team of expert guides

🔗 whitlams-berlin-tours.com

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26/09/2026

One of the very few pre-war survivors left at Potsdamer Platz 👀

🏨 The Hotel Esplanade opened in 1908 as one of Berlin’s grandest luxury hotels

🎩 Famous visitors included Kaiser Wilhelm II, Charlie Chaplin and Greta Garbo

💥 Most of the hotel was destroyed during the Second World War, but a handful of rooms survived

🧱 After the war, those remains stood just metres from the Berlin Wall

🏗️ In 1996, the surviving Kaisersaal was moved around 75 metres and incorporated into the new Potsdamer Platz

👀 You can still see the remains today inside the modern complex

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🏛️ I’m Jonny Whitlam, founder of Whitlam’s Berlin Tours. We offer private Berlin history tours with me and a small team of expert guides

🔗 whitlams-berlin-tours.com

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24/09/2026

Two men tried to kill Germany’s first Kaiser on the same Berlin street, just three weeks apart 👑

🔫 On 11 May 1878, Max Hödel fired twice at Kaiser Wilhelm I as his open carriage travelled along Unter den Linden. Both shots missed and Hödel was arrested

💥 Then, on 2 June, Karl Nobiling fired a sh***un from a second-floor window at Unter den Linden 18. Around 30 pellets struck Wilhelm, seriously wounding him

🚩 Neither attack was shown to have been ordered by Germany’s socialist movement. Hödel had been expelled from a socialist organisation, while Nobiling wasn’t a party member at all

🏛️ Bismarck nevertheless used the attacks to push his campaign against socialism. After his first anti-socialist bill failed, he dissolved the Reichstag following Nobiling’s attack and called a new election

📜 On 19 October 1878, the Anti-Socialist Law passed, banning socialist organisations, meetings and publications

🚩 The Socialist Party (SPD) would nevertheless go from strength to strength over the next decades, becoming the largest party in Germany just before the first world war and assuming power in the revolution at the end of the war in 1918.

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