Topography of Terror
At this site, the Nazi regime’s SS Reich Security Main Office occupied the buildings from 1933 to 1945, as the headquarters of the Sicherheitspolizei, the SD, the Einsatzgruppen, and the Gestapo. The quarters that held the Gestapo headquarters were largely destroyed by Allied bombing in early 1945, and the ruins were demolished after the war. In 1987—during Berlin’s 750th anniversary—exhibitions began here, after the Gestapo headquarters’ cellar, where political prisoners were tortured and executed, was found and excavated with East German researchers, leading to a joint exhibition in 1989. After German reunification, a foundation was established in 1992 to oversee the site, and the following year it selected architect Peter Zumthor for a permanent museum design, though construction was halted after the concrete core was built. Today, only a memorial marks the former location, while the Topography of Terror museum was founded in 2010. …
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