Museum Berlin-Karlshorst
Museum Berlin-Karlshorst carries its history in the ground beneath it: the venue for the unconditional surrender of the German armed forces on 8 May 1945. That ratification in Karlshorst confirmed the surrender instrument signed the previous day in Rheims, bringing the war in Europe to an end. After the Wehrmacht pioneer school used the building as an officers’ mess, it became the headquarters of the Soviet Military Administration in Germany. In 1949, the Soviets handed over administrative authority to the first government of the German Democratic Republic (GDR). From 1967 to 1994, the building hosted a branch of the Central Museum of Armed Forces Moscow, centred on the unconditional surrender of Nazi Germany in the “Great Patriotic War.” In the early 1990s, German-Soviet agreements on withdrawing Soviet forces led to a jointly recollected history, and the German-Russian Museum opened to the public in May 1995—built on the site’s …
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