Berlin in a day

[Roosty38]

Hi
Me and husband are planning a whistle stop weekend away in Berlin.
We basically have a day as we land late friday night and leave early morning om Sunday so just have 1 full day. Just wondered if anyone has advice on where to stay and what to do in 1 day to get the most out it. We are basically going for the history.
Thanks

There's a hop on hop off bus, which takes you to all the touristy spots.... the Jewish museum and check point Charlie worth a visit x

There's not much at Checkpoint Charlie any more except for a rip off museum. There are much better free ones.

Many of the "big" sites in Berlin are within walking distance of each other.

You could book entry to the Reichstag and its dome, then go and see the Holocaust memorials in/ next to the Tiergarten (the Jewish memorial has a very good- and obviously harrowing- free museum underneath it), then walk to the Topography of Terrors- a free museum housed in the old SS headquarters- via the site of Hitler's bunker. The T of T also includes a stretch of the Berlin Wall on site.

In the other direction- 10 minutes' walk from the Reichstag- is the Tranenpalast- Palace of Tears- at Friedrichstrasse station, the old rail border post between East and West, with a great (again free) museum of family separations and abandoned lives in the East.

(Oh, I forgot the Brandenburg Gate! That's right there too!)

Edited to say that although this area and route is stunning for history, you don't get much flavour of the "real" Berlin- the city today's Berliners eat, relax, and party in- round there. Much as you don't get much of the flavour of "real" London if you just go and see the sites in Westminster.