Topography of Terror Gestapo, SS and Reich Security Main Office on Wilhelm-and Prinz-Albrecht-Strasse

The terrain known today as the "Topography of Terror" was the central site for the planning and management of most of the Nazi regime's crimes. Here, on Prinz-Albrecht-Straße (now Niederkirchnerstraße) and Wilhelmstraße, were the headquarters between 1933 and 1945 of the most important institutions of the Nazi terror apparatus, the Secret State Police Office, the Reich SS Leadership, and the Reich Security Main Office. It was here that Heinrich Himmler, Reinhard Heydrich, and other key figures of the SS state had their desks. The "Topography of Terror" documentation traces the main features of the history of this "site of the perpetrators", the headquarters of Nazi terror once located here, and the crimes initiated here and committed in Germany and in the European countries occupied by the Third Reich.