memorial
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The pink triangle memorial at Nollendorfplatz is one of the first to honor gay people persecuted in Germany from 1933 to 1945.
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The Goethe memorial in Tiergarten is the original from 1880, but it wasn’t always the case. For many years, it was replaced by a replica made of concrete.
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The Soviet War Memorial in Buch is not the biggest in Berlin, but it is still impressive and easy to find near Buch S-Bahn station.
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The odd corner of a building at Schinkelplatz in Berlin was once the Building Academy. It was bombed during World War II, and now only a corner remains.
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The AIDS memorial stele shows the words AGAINST OBLIVION in 22 languages to remember those who died from AIDS and those living with HIV.
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A winter evening in 1919, Karl Liebknecht was taken to the Tiergarten and shot. Today, a memorial stone marks the spot of Karl Liebknecht’s murder.
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The Soviet War Memorial in Tiergarten is third largest and the only Soviet memorial not located in the former Soviet sector, for a very specific reason.
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The Karl Liebknecht memorial stone in Prenzlauer Berg was set up in 1959 in honor of the revolutionary who co-founded the Communist Party of Germany.
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Close to the Ronald Reagan memorial plaque in Berlin, a 2 meter statue of the president secretly watches over it.
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The first gay rights organization in the world was founded in Berlin. Today, a colorful memorial near the parliament building honors its legacy.
