(1) The former School of Industrial Arts and Crafts at Prinz-Albrecht-Strasse 8, around 1932
The Gestapo moved here at the beginning of May 1933. Prinz-Albrecht-Strasse 8 remained the headquarters of the Gestapo until the end of the war. From 1939 on it was also the central address of the Reich Security Main Office (RSHA).
(2) Prinz Albrecht-Hotel, Prinz-Albrecht-Straße 8, the "Reichsführung-SS" headquarters as of 1934
(3) Prinz Albrecht Palais, Wilhelmstrasse 102, around 1930
Since November 1934, the Palais was the seat of the Security Service (SD) of the SS, and, starting in September 1939, headquarters of the Chief of the Reich Security Main Office (Heydrich and then Kaltenbrunner).
(4) Layout of the Prinz-Albrecht district from 1938.
(5) The destroyed Prinz-Albrecht Palais, Wilhelmstrasse, 1945/46
(6) View of the destroyed Prinz-Albrecht-Palais through the colonnades on Wilhelmstrasse, in 1947
(7) The southern wing of the former Gestapo headquarters, June 1951.
On the left is the partly collapsed air raid bunker, behind it the former Museum of Industrial Arts and Crafts, and to the right the ruins of the canteen annex and the motor pool parking lot.
(8) Detail from an aerial photo of southern Friedrichstadt, taken in 1954.
After the demolition work of the late 1940s, the eastern side of the terrain was an empty lot covered with debris. But the buildings that had lined Stresemannstrasse, the Museum of Ethnology, and the Europahaus Compound were still intact. On Niederkirchnerstrasse, next to the ruins of the Gropius-Bau, only a part of the former Gestapo headquarters' front wing and the garage tract constructed by the Gestapo were still standing. The building's south wing, where the Gestapo "Hausgefaengnis" had been, had already been torn down.
(9) Photographs of the interior to No. 8 Prinz-Albrechtraße are extremely rare. Here is one of the main entrance hall.
I will have a look over the weekend and see if I can find a few more photographs of the various buildings that made up the complex.
Kind regards.
