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Learn more about the restricted Soviet areas in the former Prussian residential city. What happened in the cordoned off KGB town and how did the people of Potsdam live with the Soviets? It also goes to the venue of the Potsdam Conference in summer 1945 and to the notorious spy bridge
.Our 2.5-hour city tour takes you into a largely unknown story: Large parts of the city of Potsdam were restricted areas — no one from Potsdam had access.
Cecilienhof Palace and the surrounding “New Garden” park were initially closed to the public for the Potsdam Conference in summer 1945. The most powerful heads of state in the world of that time came to Potsdam: Soviet Head of State Josef Stalin, US President Harry S. Truman and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill laid the foundations of the post-war order here. The conference was an end point of the Second World War in Europe, but at the same time a starting point of the Cold War. Today, the castle and park are UNESCO World Heritage Sites
.Military Town No. 7 — a forbidden city — was then located next to the New Garden for almost five decades. It was one of the most important secret service sites of the Soviets during the Cold War. Among other things, the KGB's German military counterintelligence headquarters and a notorious remand prison were located here. On the tour, you'll learn more about working and living in this Forbidden City
.Finally, it's off to the Gienicker Bridge, which became world-famous as a spy bridge. During the Cold War, agents were exchanged here between East and West, as the bridge formed the border between the GDR and the American sector in West Berlin. Until the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, the bridge was a strictly shielded restricted area
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