Germany's center of evil opens to public
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May 7, 2010, Friday
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VISITORS to Berlin will again be able to roam the ruins where the Gestapo, SS and other Nazi agencies ran Adolf Hitler's dictatorship from 1933 to 1945, after a refurbished exhibition complex opens to the public.
The center, which opens its doors today, adds a museum and a library to the previously spartan exhibit known as the "Topography of Terror."
Berlin Mayor Klaus Wowereit said the exhibits in the former Prinz Albrecht Strasse illustrated that liberty, democracy and civil rights had to be defended on a daily basis. "We have a responsibility to make sure that something like that never happens again - not in Germany, not in Europe nor in the world," Wowereit said.
The area once housed Hitler's Gestapo and its prison, the SS leadership, the Nazi party's paramilitary unit and the Reich Security Main Office. Heinrich Himmler, Reinhard Heydrich and Adolf Eichmann all had offices there.
The center, which opens its doors today, adds a museum and a library to the previously spartan exhibit known as the "Topography of Terror."
Berlin Mayor Klaus Wowereit said the exhibits in the former Prinz Albrecht Strasse illustrated that liberty, democracy and civil rights had to be defended on a daily basis. "We have a responsibility to make sure that something like that never happens again - not in Germany, not in Europe nor in the world," Wowereit said.
The area once housed Hitler's Gestapo and its prison, the SS leadership, the Nazi party's paramilitary unit and the Reich Security Main Office. Heinrich Himmler, Reinhard Heydrich and Adolf Eichmann all had offices there.
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