Visiting Berlin

You can visit check point Charlie.  I believe they turned it into a museum.  The night clubs are excellent.  Templehof airport is a left over of the war and Berlin air lift.  There is a subway system and they have a excellent cable car system.  The SS and Airforce buildings are still standing.  The anti-aircraft towers are still standing.  Hitler's bunker was replace with apartment buildings but their is a marker to show its location.  I believe their is tour you can take.

I found Belin very walkable, but then again I was a young man then.  Enjoy.

Hello!

I've been to Berlin over ten years ago the last time. I'd say the German cities are very walkable, but with Berlin the problem is that the city is vast, and it consists of city parts that are somewhat separate, so it is a good idea to buy some kind of "all week ticket" or something like that and use the public transportation system. Checkpoint Charlie is a good museum to see, lots of cool info about the East German secret police (STASI), the walls and actual vehicles that were used to flee to the other side.

Have a nice trip!

Paweł

I'll definitely visit Checkpoint Charlie.  Wow, are SS buildings still standing?  I've got to check them out.  I'll actually have 3.5 full days in Berlin, but I'll visit Dresden for a day.  So many things to see in 2.5 days....

Hi

Berlin is very 'walkable' as it is flat, but it is HUGE...

You can get 1 or 2 day tickets for the red open-top tourist buses, with English descriptions, (do the complete circuit first, then jump on & off as you please) a quick way of seeing the core city.

You can get a 2 hour, or 1/2/4/7 day public transport tickets good for U Bahn, S-Bahn, & busses (not red Tourist) good when you know where you are going (buy at airport kiosks or Tourist Info Offices)

The 'Museum Island' is essential for Art Nuts  & the TV tower has good views (long queues, book in advance if possible)

Checkpoint Charlie Museum & very close to the Topography of Terror, Topographie des Terrors, with a large part of the East/West Wall. This is opposite to the former Luftwaffe department.

Lots of BERLIN Museums Here 
The Militärhistorisches Museum Flugplatz Berlin-Gatow is an obvious one

Dresden, my all Time Favourite City, been 17 times... 

The Saxon Kings' Pleasure City, the core tourist bits are very walkable in the 'Old town', but the Red Tourist Bus Dresden advice applies, Theaterplatz, 01067 Dresden. 

Dresden Museums Here  Dresden Armory & Dresden Transport Museum are near the Dresden Frauen Kirche, and many many more...  
Galerie Neue Meister, with Klimt, Kirchner, Otto Dix, Casper David Friedrich as my personal Art Nut Favourite.

The Bundeswehr Military History Museum whimsically sliced by Liebeskind, is in the North of the Newtown. This one is worth at least 1/2 a day, as are the others... 

Enjoy.

Not very walkable as it's a huge city, but you can zip around on the U Bahn.

San Souci Palace in Potsdam.

I wouldn't focus so much on the war as on the culture. In every way as rich as Paris.

The restored Reichstag is pretty fabulous.

The DTM (Deutsches Technik Museum) is also worth a visit.

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I went there about 6 years ago and walked pretty much everywhere, there i went. I remember thinking it was quite an easy city to walk around - mostly flat, but yes, quite spralled out.

It was nice and clean too with a good public transport system and yes, a great nightclub scene after dark.

There are numerous walking tours you can do and most of them are guided tours where the tour guide is paid purely on tips from the guests, so it's good value for money for an hour or so of sightseeing. I think the one i saw met at Pariser Platz behind the Brandenberg Gates.

Sights to be seen include Checkpoint Charlie, the remains of the Berlin Wall, monument to those lost in the holocaust, memorial of the 1933 book burning, location of Hitler's death and many more.

Well worth going along on one if you can.

There is also Sachsenhausen Concentration camp about an hours train ride away.

No doubt that city is littered with history and incredibly interesting, albeit solemn.