Berlin Trip : Topography of Terror Museum (Abandoned Piers from Gestapo Driveway)

I can’t find any old photos of this angle of the building, but these are the remains of the piers that once lined the main driveway to the Gestapo headquarters. They’re now located at the Topography of Terror Museum and they were left here following the clearing of the site between 1957 and 1963. This was known as the ‘east gate’ and all the political prisoners would have passed through here. It’s an odd bit of archaeology as this area was all excavated in the 1980s and 1990s, so it wasn’t long demolished. I’m oddly interested in random bits of old buildings, especially when they had such a massive importance in a country’s history.

This is the building that they were guarding (photo copyright of the Bundesarchiv).