Topography of Terror

Permanent Exhibition Topography of Terror

Gestapo, SS and Reich Security Main Office on Wilhelmstraße and Prinz-Albrecht-Straße

The building of the Topography of Terror photographed from the front, blue sky above.

Hauptgebäude

© Bildwerk / STdT

The major focus of the permanent exhibition of the “Topography of Terror” is on the central institutions of the SS and police in the Third Reich and the crimes they committed across Europe. The exhibition panels mostly present historical photographs supplemented by introductory texts and short quotes. Under the panels are consoles where thematically arranged documents are displayed. The exhibition is in five chapters:

  • The National-Socialist seizure of power
  • Institutions of terror (SS and police)
  • Terror, persecution and mass murder in the Reich
  • The SS and the Reich Security Main Office in the occupied territories
  • The end of the war and post-war period
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