Divided Berlin - Half-Day Tour

Berlin was the front line in a war of nerves and no other city symbolizes the secrecy, tyranny, and double-face of the Cold War. As one of the few guides who experienced Berlin, I'll lead you from the island of freedom in West Berlin, across the death strip, into the capital of Central Europe's most Stalinist state. Follow a trail of ghosts through a Berlin where two superpowers met head-to-head. See where Soviet and American tanks stood on the brink of a nuclear war and experience what life was really like behind the iron curtain. Explore the Stalin Allee, a street designed to be one meter wider than the Champs Elysees and a masterpiece of Socialist architecture. See the Bernauer Strasse, where the Wall separated East and West often through the houses themselves. We'll see how and why the Wall was built and talk about life on both sides. Find out about Berlin, the espionage capital of the world and how the CIA and MI6 tapped Eastern Europe's communication network in a service