Adolf Hitler was an Austrian-born German politician who was the dictator of Germany from 1933 until his suicide 1945. He rose to power as the leader of the Nazi Party, becoming the chancellor in 1933 and then taking the title of Führer in 1934.
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The small and quiet town of Malbork would have probably never made it on a traveller’s must see map if it wasn’t for the gigantic brick Gothic fortress it its midst (a UNESCO World Heritage Site).
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Wolf’s Lair is at once fascinating, depressing and eerie, as it serves as a window into the surroundings of the person who masterminded Europe’s darkest years. It is symbolic for all that contemporary Poland would prefer to leave behind, but at the same time, opening the site up to the world shows that Poland has most definitely moved on.
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After the Berlin Wall fell and Germany was reunited, the complex was officially historically listed. Museums and artists’ studios moved in, but large sections of the monstrous structure, considered the longest of its kind in the world, decayed.
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Other museums worth visiting in Berlin includes the moving Jewish Historical Museum , the German History Museum and the Stasi Museum , which documents the insidious spy and espionage activities of the old East German secret police. The Topgraphie of Terrors documents the sinister activities of the Gestspo and SS before and during the Second World War.
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