With the unconditional surrender in the great hall of the museum, a former officers' mess of the Wehrmacht Pioneer School, the Second World War in Europe ended on May 8, 1945. From 1945 to 1949, the building served as the headquarters of the Soviet Military Administration in Germany.
in 1967, the Soviet surrender museum was opened here. After the agreements on the withdrawal of Soviet forces from Germany, the Federal Republic of Germany and the Soviet Union decided in 1990 to jointly build a museum on this site to commemorate the German Reich's war of extermination against the Soviet Union from 1941 to 1945. It was opened in 1995.
Since 2013, the permanent exhibition has documented the war from the perspective of the German and Soviet actors. The territories occupied by the Wehrmacht were not only the territory where the murder of European Jews began.
German warfare and occupation rule also included other crimes such as the mass deaths of Soviet prisoners of war or the planned starvation of millions of civilians. The exhibition also deals with the consequences of the Second World War that reach into the present.
The museum also organizes special exhibitions, discussions, film series, scientific conferences and the annual May 8 events.
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- Monday closed
- Tuesday-Sunday 10:00 - 18:00
- 7. April 2023 regular
- 9. April 2023 regular
- 10. April 2023 regular
Zwieseler Straße 4, 10318 Berlin
+49 (30) 50 15 08-10
+49 (30) 50 15 08-40
Free entrance
Exhibitions
Events
Museum Berlin-Karlshorst
Secret Karlshorst. Searching for clues in the former Soviet restricted area
Guided Tour
Museum Berlin-Karlshorst
Public guided tour
The museum at the historic site of the surrender on 8 May 1945 - past and present
Guided Tour
Museum Berlin-Karlshorst
Weapons in the Museum. Memory Cultures in International Comparison
Special guided tour with Arkadi Miller in the course of the campaign weeks "Ab ins B!"
Guided Tour
Museum Berlin-Karlshorst
Secret Karlshorst. Searching for clues in the former Soviet restricted area
Special guided tour with Ricardo Neuner in the course of the campaign weeks "Ab ins B!"
Guided Tour
Museum Berlin-Karlshorst
Instrumentalisation of the history of the Second World War for the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine
History in Conflict. Memories of the Second World War in Eastern Europe (International event series)
Miscellaneous
Museum Berlin-Karlshorst
Dispute over Soviet monuments
History in Conflict. Memories of the Second World War in Eastern Europe (International event series)
Miscellaneous
Museum Berlin-Karlshorst
Victims under German occupation in Ukraine
History in Conflict. Memories of the Second World War in Eastern Europe (International event series)
Miscellaneous
Museum Berlin-Karlshorst
Remembrance of the Second World War in Belarus
History in Conflict. Memories of the Second World War in Eastern Europe (International event series)
Miscellaneous
Museum Berlin-Karlshorst
Remembrance of the Second World War in Ukraine
History in Conflict. Memories of the Second World War in Eastern Europe (International event series)
Miscellaneous
Museum Berlin-Karlshorst
Remembrance of the Second World War in Russia
History in Conflict. Memories of the Second World War in Eastern Europe (International event series)
Miscellaneous
Digital
Tickets
Free entrance
Booking Telephone
+49 (30) 50 15 08-41
Services
- Museum Shop
- Library
Audioguides
In German, English, French, Polish, Russisch, Ukrainisch.