The site wasn’t always known by the eerie name of “The Topography of Terror” It went by subtler titles of Command Centre and Headquarters of the Gestapo, SS and Reich Security: names that still manage to send spikes of fear through our nerves. At the height of the Nazi regime, many more than the 15000 recorded political dissenters were interrogated and tortured, screams echoing as they were carted off to prisons or concentration camps.

This symbol of terror was first converted to a temporary exhibition in the 1970s before growing into a permanent memorial built of steel mesh, photographs and statements to recollect past tragedies. 15 information sites bring visitors through the crimes that were organized behind closed doors and the mass genocide that was orchestrated from that very location. You can even walk along the longest standing section of the Berlin Wall at the basement, left exactly as it was all those decades ago. Put together, the Topography of Terror reconstructs the grievous errors of our past in an attempt to prevent a repeat from ever taking place.