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Deutsch-Russisches Museum Berlin-Karlshorst, Kapitulationssaal
Foto: Thomas Bruns
Deutsch-Russisches Museum Berlin-Karlshorst, Kapitulationssaal. Foto: Thomas Bruns
Deutsch-Russisches Museum Berlin-Karlshorst, Blick in die Dauerausstellung
Foto: Thomas Bruns
Deutsch-Russisches Museum Berlin-Karlshorst, Blick in die Dauerausstellung. Foto: Thomas Bruns
Deutsch-Russisches Museum Berlin-Karlshorst, Blick in die Dauerausstellung
Foto: Thomas Bruns
Deutsch-Russisches Museum Berlin-Karlshorst, Blick in die Dauerausstellung. Foto: Thomas Bruns
Deutsch-Russisches Museum Berlin-Karlshorst, Blick in die Dauerausstellung
Foto: Thomas Bruns
Deutsch-Russisches Museum Berlin-Karlshorst, Blick in die Dauerausstellung. Foto: Thomas Bruns
Deutsch-Russisches Museum Berlin-Karlshorst, Blick in die Dauerausstellung
Foto: Thomas Bruns
Deutsch-Russisches Museum Berlin-Karlshorst, Blick in die Dauerausstellung. Foto: Thomas Bruns
Eingang des Museums Berlin-Karlshorst
Foto: Pascal Prüeß, Museum Berlin-Karlshorst

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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Opening hours,

  • Monday closed
  • Tuesday-Sunday 10:00 - 18:00
  • 7. April 2023 regular
  • 9. April 2023 regular
  • 10. April 2023 regular

Location,

Zwieseler Straße 4, 10318 Berlin

Telephone,

+49 (30) 50 15 08-10

Fax,

+49 (30) 50 15 08-40

Website,

www.museum-karlshorst.de

Email,

[javascript protected email address]

Prices,

Free entrance

Exhibitions

View of the permanent exhibition "Germany and the Soviet Union in the Second World War 1941-1945".
Foto/Photo: Thomas Bruns, Museum Berlin-Karlshorst

Germany and the Soviet Union in the Second World War 1941-1945

A permanent exhibition about the war of extermination against the Soviet Union

Events

Faltplan zum historischen "Geheimen Karlshorst"
Foto: Museum Berlin-Karlshorst

Museum Berlin-Karlshorst

Secret Karlshorst. Searching for clues in the former Soviet restricted area

Guided Tour

Museum Karlshorst: Capitulation Hall - historical site of the surrender of the Wehrmacht leadership to the Allies on May 8, 1945 © Museum Berlin-Karlshorst | Photo: Thomas Bruns
© Museum Berlin-Karlshorst | Foto: Thomas Bruns
Karlshorst Museum with a view of the surrender hall - historical site of the surrender of the Wehrmacht leadership to the Allies on May 8, 1945

Museum Berlin-Karlshorst

Public guided tour

The museum at the historic site of the surrender on 8 May 1945 - past and present

Guided Tour

Tanks and military technology in the garden of the Museum Berlin-Karlshorst
© Museum Berlin-Karlshorst | Pascal Prüeß
Tanks and military technology in the garden of the Museum Berlin-Karlshorst

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

Pioneer school in Karlshorst today
© Museum Berlin-Karlshorst | Foto: Margot Blank
Pioneer school in Karlshorst today

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

Dismantling of the monument to the Soviet soldiers of the Red Army in Vilnius, 8 December 2022
Foto: dpa picture alliance
Flyer of the event series: History in Conflict

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

Dismantling of the monument to the Soviet soldiers of the Red Army in Vilnius, 8 December 2022
Foto: dpa picture alliance
Flyer of the event series: History in Conflict

Museum Berlin-Karlshorst

Dispute over Soviet monuments

History in Conflict. Memories of the Second World War in Eastern Europe (International event series)

Miscellaneous

Dismantling of the monument to the Soviet soldiers of the Red Army in Vilnius, 8 December 2022
Foto: dpa picture alliance
Flyer of the event series: History in Conflict

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

Dismantling of the monument to the Soviet soldiers of the Red Army in Vilnius, 8 December 2022
Foto: dpa picture alliance
Flyer of the event series: History in Conflict

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

Dismantling of the monument to the Soviet soldiers of the Red Army in Vilnius, 8 December 2022
Foto: dpa picture alliance
Flyer of the event series: History in Conflict

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

Dismantling of the monument to the Soviet soldiers of the Red Army in Vilnius, 8 December 2022
Foto: dpa picture alliance
Flyer of the event series: History in Conflict

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

Accessibility

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Audioguides

In German, English, French, Polish, Russisch, Ukrainisch.

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