Source: Official Brochure German History Museum in Berlin
from 1 April to 31 July 2011, the German Historical Museum Berlin, DHM, debuts a temporary exhibition on the role of police in National Socialism.
Police was a key instrument of domination during the Nazi regime, which since its inception and until the end able to rely on it. The exhibition not only Gestamp, but also the Crime Squad and uniformed police pursued ideological and political opponents of the regime. All branches of the police were involved in killing people, in the suppression of the resistance and deportation or kidnapping civilians for forced labor. These events were committed police officers, most of whom had been trained professionally during the Weimar Republic, theoretically a democratic rule of law. Only some of them were tried after 1945. Many were able to make a career in the police service.
The exhibition presents 500 objects on the history of National Socialism police in seven chapters. The itinerary begins with the Weimar Republic, continuing through the early of dictatorship and the reformation of the police apparatus after the consolidation of the regime.
The most important point of the exhibition is the crime of the police in areas occupied since 1939, ending with the relationship between German society and the police since 1945.
Web museum http://www.dhm.de/
Address: Unter den Linden 2 10117 Berlin
Hours: Daily 10.00 - 18.00
Entry: day ticket for all exhibits: 6, - € a. Students under 18: free
The Martin Gropius Bau in Berlin, one of the most ambitious programming museums of Berlin, exhibits from the 10th of March " Kompass, a selection of drawings bequeathed by the Judith Rothschild Foundation at MoMA in New York, which encompasses 130 major names in contemporary art.
The list of artists in the exhibition is a complete list of twentieth-century art scene: Jasper Johns, Martin Kippenberger, Jo Baer, \u200b\u200bCy Twombly, Franz West, Sol LeWitt, Joseph Beuys, AR Penck, Jeff Koons, Neo Rauch and an almost endless so. It is, in the words of Gereon Sivernich, director of the Martin Gropius, the most extensive displays so far exhibited in this collection, bequeathed in 2005 by the Judith Rothschild Foundation to the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
covers pieces from the fifties to the present, from the U.S. and Europe, mainly as a selection from among the 2,500 pieces for about 600 artists. It is also the second raid of the famous New York museum in the German capital after the major exhibition moved the best of MoMA in Berlin's Neue Nationalgalerie, seven years ago, through 250 works. exposure then promptly made while the original MoMA was closed for renovations, it became an absolute record of affluence - 1.2 million visitors in its seven-month -. The Martin Gropius not pose a comparable visits horizon - "they are drawings, not of the most famous of MoMA, as then," recalled Sivernich ", but aims to show a" compass "panoramic picture of the world art. The exhibition comprises some 250 pieces, something like ten percent of total works The Judith Rothschild Foundation, which range from drawings on paper and ink collages assemblies with different materials. is an amplified version of the exhibition at the IVAM (Instituto Valenciano de Arte Moderno), last autumn, incorporating a dozen artists represented long over, reaching 130. the Foundation's collection was completed between 2003 and 2005, intending to show a picture of the world of modern design in all its forms, techniques, trends and assemblies. The fund includes big names like this since the twentieth century young artists and aims at showing the resiliency of the form on paper drawing, sometimes born of spontaneity, at other times the result of the work produced.
"Any selection implies resignation. It is impossible to encompass in a single display across the vast repertoire included in the collection of the Judith Rothschild Foundation. By the same token, we assume that this is one of the variants possible over the same cosmos, "said Christian Rattermeyer, curator of the exhibition.
Martin Gropius The sample will be open until late May, coinciding with the same museum exhibit of 60 photographs and portraits of the artist Margarita Broich, about characters like Kate Winsley, Klaus Maria Brandauer and other figures from the world of film and theater.
HOURS: From Wednesday to Monday 10:00 to 20:00 pm (Tuesday closed)
Martin-Gropius-Bau Berlin Niederkirchnerstraße 7 of attacks that have lived in Berlin in recent months.
This change is a distinct advantage: you no longer have to queue forever to get to see the spectacular dome of the Reichstag, but getting reserve is not always easy. The number of places is limited and, if they come from friends or family groups together, a maximum allowed to enter at once to 25 people. To make such request shall be in writing (email), determining the total number of people, along with your name, identity card and birth dates. And, of course, do not forget identity card on the day of the visit! It must be said that the visits have limited availability, currently waiting a long time and even more, if the visit is requested in Castilian. .
MoMA in Berlin Visit the Reichstag itself, but with exceptions
Who has not ever heard that the European capital of electronic music par excellence is Berlin? And, indeed, is the birthplace of techno, but Berlin has much more to offer and this at times the problem because we do not know where to start. Here are some options, you will discover another side of Berlin.
Berlin and the world of jazz
Did you know that in Berlin Jazz Festival celebrates 40 years? Yes, it is the Jazzfest Berlin, be one of the most renowned worldwide. This festival takes place in November and brings together the most emblematic of this musical sphere, which for 4 days offer a marathon of concerts.
: in the Jewish quarter of Berlin you will find this bar with beers from all parts of Germany and also in his basement jazz sessions are organized alternative. Oranienburgerstr. 67
- O - Ton
: Opened in 2007 and located in the district of Friedrichshain offers not only jazz, but also music from the time of the GDR and Eastern Europe . Ideal for those affected by the "Ostalgie" or nostalgia for the East. Krossenerstr. 18.
hours to visit the building are daily at 10h30, 13h30, 15h30 and 18h \u200b\u200band each visit lasts 90 minutes 
Club: Since 1975 this club has hosted jazz lovers with a warm and comforting interior to relax and enjoy the show. Each session begins at 22h. For tickets can be done via the Internet or directly in the Quasimodo Café. The place: Kantstraße 12 a. 
