Prinz-Albrecht-Straße Nr. 8

[Helly Angel]

Hard Question...

Someone know how was the distribution of the Building of Prinz-Albrecht-Straße number 8 (during the war)?

For example, Which offices were in the 1,2,3, etc floor?

The building was the Gestapo HQ?
or it was the HQ of the complete RSHA?

Someone have photos?

Thanks in advance,

Helly

[Panzercommander_Kleist]

I found this picture on http://www.fkoester.de/kreiten/img/gestapogebaeude.jpg



Can't help with much more than a photo, but I hope it's what you're looking for.

[varjag]

It looks about as inviting as the Lubyanka in Moscow!

[Helly Angel]

Thank you Kleist!

[Panzercommander_Kleist]

Thank you Kleist!

It was no problem.

[czarek]

A few information about Prinz-Albrecht-Gelände are here with pics
http://www.topographie.de/
Czarek

[Topspeed]

Looks like any normal townhaus from that period in Europe.

[von thoma]

The old Prinz-Albrecht-Straße 8 street actual placement, Niederkirchnerstraße is now.

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With remains of the old Wall.

[Cor]

here my pic with the comparison from 1945

[von thoma]

Thanks ! Your view is better.
The sinister building destroyed.

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Photo:http://nnm.ru/blogs/Nemez83/gestapo/

[Red star]

Such foreshortenings of this building are interesting?

[von thoma]

The first picture is Wilhelmstraße 102 with the Prinz-Albrecht-Palais,aerial view ?

[Cor]

The second picture from LIFE is a nice one. Its a new picture fore me, thanks

[Mannheim]

Is my memory failing me? In Red Star's photo above, I have circled what is obviously the Gestapo HQ in question. However, I seem to recall from my visit last year that the Topography of Terror exhibition is allegedly on the site of the former HQ and part of the exhibition is in the surviving Gestapo cellars. The blue line indicates where I think I remember the exhibition to be (there is also a section of the Berlin Wall there). Now if the cellars are where the blue line is, how can they be the original Gestapo cellars?

[Cor]

I think it is a combination of the underground cellars exhibition that are more to the left of your blue line and an exhibition of the berlin wall that was over the whole of the prinz albrechtstrasse.

according to me the cellars where in this place. maybe there is somebody who could make a sort of overlay, just like in the thread of the fuhrerbunker.