Okay, this post is long overdue. It's been ages since I visited the Allied Museum, but there were too many photos and I was too lazy to sort them properly. Ah well, better late than never.
The Allied Museum (or Alliertenmuseum) houses a collection of memorabilia related to the capture and rule of Berlin by the Allied Powers after the second world war. A lot of propaganda, but it also gives us some insight into the processes that go into occupying a city. In that sense, I found it a fascinating experience.
Now, this is what I expected a military museum to look like! :)
more memorabilia
the banister of the walkway in the middle of the museum has a timeline of the second world war and the Allied occupation of Germany!
posters, old records, stuff for children and the youth
me with the Handley Page Hastings T.5 plane outside the museum... one can view footage of the second world war inside the plane for 1 Euro
Everyday life in the American sector
and in the British sector
3D map of the French sector
a segment of the Berlin Spy Tunnel, built by the CIA and the SIS to tap into the underground telephone cables that carried communications to and from Soviet headquarters
Berlin divided
The Allied Museum (or Alliertenmuseum) houses a collection of memorabilia related to the capture and rule of Berlin by the Allied Powers after the second world war. A lot of propaganda, but it also gives us some insight into the processes that go into occupying a city. In that sense, I found it a fascinating experience.
This is what you see first of all upon entering the museum (free of cost!) -- images of Berliners watching the Allies enter the city.
"The Red Plague of Bolshevism"
The best way to save freedom of speech is to buy war bonds! :)
photos of the Berlin bombing
A historical announcement. Yay! and all that.
Flags of all the Allies when the Soviet Union was still considered one.
More historical announcements.
The verdict of the Nuremberg Trials, by which the Allies tried Nazi war criminals
first editions of Der Tagesspiegel (lit. The Daily Mirror), supposedly the first liberal German newspaper, founded in 1945
printing equipment for Der Tagesspiegel
Allied memorabilia
from left to right: the Pink & Greens of an American Major General, the field uniform of a British Grenadier, a French uniform model (all around 1946)
supplying food... the airlift after the soviet blockade in 1948-49
a recipe book for operation vittles! (Operation Vittles was the nickname of the airlift mission by the British and US air force to provide food for West Berlin after the Soviet Union blockaded the city by closing off all the means of transport)
"The Red Plague of Bolshevism"
photos of the Berlin bombing
Flags of all the Allies when the Soviet Union was still considered one.
The verdict of the Nuremberg Trials, by which the Allies tried Nazi war criminals
first editions of Der Tagesspiegel (lit. The Daily Mirror), supposedly the first liberal German newspaper, founded in 1945
printing equipment for Der Tagesspiegel
Allied memorabilia
from left to right: the Pink & Greens of an American Major General, the field uniform of a British Grenadier, a French uniform model (all around 1946)
supplying food... the airlift after the soviet blockade in 1948-49
a recipe book for operation vittles! (Operation Vittles was the nickname of the airlift mission by the British and US air force to provide food for West Berlin after the Soviet Union blockaded the city by closing off all the means of transport)
Now, this is what I expected a military museum to look like! :)
more memorabilia
the banister of the walkway in the middle of the museum has a timeline of the second world war and the Allied occupation of Germany!
posters, old records, stuff for children and the youth
me with the Handley Page Hastings T.5 plane outside the museum... one can view footage of the second world war inside the plane for 1 Euro
Everyday life in the American sector
3D map of the French sector
a segment of the Berlin Spy Tunnel, built by the CIA and the SIS to tap into the underground telephone cables that carried communications to and from Soviet headquarters
Berlin divided
