The Neue Wache

Under the Communist regime, this was the “Memorial to the Victims of Fascism and Militarism”. Since 1993, it has become the “Central Memorial Site of the Federal Republic to the Victims of War and Violent Rule”. Inside the building is a re-creation of Käthe Kollwitz's Pieta.

In 1969, the remains of an unknown soldier and the remains of an unknown concentration camp inmate were laid to rest here, surrounded by earth from WWII battlefields and concentration camps.