Haus der Geschichte Bonn

Haus der Geschichte, Bonn - darkometer rating : 3 - The main museum about Germany 's rich and intriguing post-war history . It's a huge state-of-the-art affair and absolutely outstanding. If you have any interest in modern history in general and Germany's in particular, this is the No.1 must-see institution. One of the greatest history museums in the world. Period. > More background info > What there is to see > Location > Access and costs > Time required > Combinations with other dark destinations > Combinations with non-dark destinations > Photos More background info: Now, I am aware that in some parts of the world the notion of post -war German history, i.e. after 1945, will draw a blank. Especially in parts of the Anglo-American world German history still triggers association only with Germany up until 1945 – and even more precisely, only the slot between 1933 and 1945, or narrower still: 193 9 to 1945, i.e. the period of Hitler and the Nazis and WWII . Such is the obsession with that darkest part of German history that too many forget or overlook what a fascinating history followed that period, a much more complex and varied history at that. And this includes plenty of dark aspects of very different types. Just think of the main facets that fall into that period: the occupation by the four victorious Allies of WWII and the reconstruction of Germany, all this at the beginning of the Cold War . The descent of the Iron Curtain , which ran right through the middle of the now divided Germany – with the FRG emerging in the West, with US/Allied support, and the GDR in the East as one of the Soviet Union 's satellite states of the Eastern Bloc . The Berlin Wall became the symbol of this division. That is: from a global perspective, Germany was the very pivotal location of that great divide that dominated world politics for nearly five decades.