Tina's Tours Berlin

Tina's Tours Berlin I fell in love with Berlin and will help you to fall in love with it, too! I give various tours for English speaking guests in Berlin and Sachsenhausen.

Tours tours tours 😍Don't forget to bring hats, sunscreen and water if you're touring today in Berlin! It's going to be s...
14/08/2025

Tours tours tours 😍

Don't forget to bring hats, sunscreen and water if you're touring today in Berlin! It's going to be spicy at over 30 degrees.

P.S. if you want to join me, I'm giving an alternative Berlin tour at 10:30am and a tour of the big sights at 3pm!

If you'd rather go swimming, try Müggelsee, Strandbad Plötzensee, Schlachtensee or Krumme Lanke. These lakes are all easy to reach with public transport from Berlin.

Can recommend: Ristorante Leo e Pepe Kreuzberg.Great Italian food and excellent wine, next to Görlitzer Park in Kreuzber...
12/08/2025

Can recommend: Ristorante Leo e Pepe Kreuzberg.
Great Italian food and excellent wine, next to Görlitzer Park in Kreuzberg.
Plenty of seating both inside and outside.
P.S. my rule is that I only post restaurants if I absolutely loved the experience!

Book recommendation: The Grey Men, by former FBI agent Ralph Hope. Ever wondered where the Stasi went after East Germany...
11/08/2025

Book recommendation: The Grey Men, by former FBI agent Ralph Hope.

Ever wondered where the Stasi went after East Germany collapsed?

The Stasi were the secret police and intelligence organ in socialist East Germany. Proportionate to population size, the Stasi was the largest secret police apparatus in history. In 1989, it had 91,00 official employees and 180,000 unofficial informers. Many had spied on their colleagues, neighbours, maybe even on their own friends or families... Their work had secured the one-party state and supported a system which brutally oppressed those it considered opponents.

This book explores how the Stasi men adapted to their new, capitalist reality when East Germany collapsed. It's focused more on the big figures rather than the "little people" and, spoiler alert: it's quite alarming.

Free concerts in Berlin! 😍Tonight and tomorrow night (8th and 9th of August) are the final dates of the "Durchlüften" fr...
08/08/2025

Free concerts in Berlin! 😍

Tonight and tomorrow night (8th and 9th of August) are the final dates of the "Durchlüften" free concert series for 2025.

The concerts are in the beautiful Schlüterhof of , a 2021 replica of the grand courtyard of Berlin's city palace, as it looked in the early 18th century.

06/08/2025

Conveniently, I'd been reading about prostitution in East Germany just a couple of days before this happened (links below).

Truth:
Prostitution was illegal in East Germany. It was seen by the state as a problem of capitalism i.e. the West.

But naturally, s*x work existed nonetheless.

Women caught by the police were jailed, and sometimes put into institutions for "therapy" or to "prevent them from spreading s*xual diseases".

Some women were blackmailed by the Stasi (East German Secret Police). In exchange for avoiding jail, the Stasi dictated who their clients would be and the women were used as spies.

Links (you'll need to translate into English):
https://www.digitales-deutsches-frauenarchiv.de/themen/prostitution-der-ddr

https://www.mdr.de/geschichte/ddr/alltag/konsum/prostitution-messe-leipzig-s*x-s*xarbeit-ddr-stasi-staatssicherheit-zuhaelter100.html

05/08/2025

This was hard to read.

It's part of the new exhibition called "The N***s didn't just disappear" at the Topography of Terror museum in Berlin.

"Without the extermination of the Jews, Hi**er would be seen today as a great statesman". 11.6% of Germans completely agreed with that statement. I could puke.

For me, this means that the nation's attempt at educating their population about its atrocities during the N**i dictatorship has failed.

Those 11.6% of Germans... I wonder, is it that they never learned about the regime's other crimes, or did they forget, or is it that they simply don't care?

What do they think and feel about N**i Germany's murder of people with disability, murder of homos*xuals, murder of the Sinti and Roma? How do they feel about the starvation, enslavement, exploitation, displacement and murder of millions of diverse people, be it communists or resisters or Soviet civilians or Jehovah's Witnesses?

They seem to have fell for the N***s' own propaganda, that Hi**er fixed the economy and resolved unemployment. Perhaps they like the N***s' policy of locking-up, torturing and enslaving people with a criminal record, communists and q***r women?

Their willingness to support this statement, of course, also minimises the Holocaust against the Jewish people.

If someone has a more optimistic interpretation, I'd be interested to hear it. Because right now, I'm nauseated.

If you haven't yet listened to this podcast episode on escapes over the Berlin Wall featuring yours truly, check it out ...
04/08/2025

If you haven't yet listened to this podcast episode on escapes over the Berlin Wall featuring yours truly, check it out at
https://theministryofhistory.com/podcasts/

We're recording an episode on Women in East Germany next week!

02/08/2025

I love coming to James Simon Park for street music by Berlin's River Spree, overlooking the buildings of Museum Island.
30 minutes ago it was raining, now it's glorious sunshine.
Also, this book is AMAZING.

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