# Topographie des Terrors

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Topographie des Terrors is a museum in Berlin on the former site of the SS Reich Security Main Office, where the Gestapo, Sicherheitspolizei and Einsatzgruppen operated from 1933 to 1945. Indoor and open-air exhibitions trace these institutions, their crimes across Europe and the impact of Nazi policies on Berlin and its people.

A two-storey Documentation Centre presents the permanent exhibition across 800 square metres, while glass shelters excavated cellar walls from the Gestapo headquarters. The site also includes a seminar centre, a library of about 25,000 volumes and wheelchair-accessible spaces. Alongside the museum, a remaining section of the Berlin Wall follows the former street edge, and a tour connects it with the exposed building remains.

Greywacke covers the surrounding landscape, with a small stand of black locust trees recalling the site’s earlier use as a bumper-car ground.

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## Photos

- ![](https://mytuur-bucket.s3.amazonaws.com/image_TopographiedesTerrors_67349cfff177243f4f450704_0.jpg) — [Image: wikimedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Topographie_des_Terrors_Neubau.jpg)
- ![](https://mytuur-bucket.s3.amazonaws.com/image_TopographiedesTerrors_67349cfff177243f4f450704_1.jpg) — [Image: wikimedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Topographie_des_Terrors_Aerial_view.JPG)
- ![](https://mytuur-bucket.s3.amazonaws.com/image_TopographiedesTerrors_67349cfff177243f4f450704_2.jpg) — [Image: wikimedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Berlin_Topographie_des_Terrors_Ausstellungshalle.jpg)
- ![](https://mytuur-bucket.s3.amazonaws.com/image_TopographiedesTerrors_67349cfff177243f4f450704_3.jpg) — [Image: wikimedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Berlin_Topographie_des_Terrors_Ausstellungsgraben.jpg)

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