Kommunistisches und sozialistisches Berlin: Ein Rundgang durch die Geschichte

Impressive and highly recommended

Rou is very knowledgeable and put us in the spirit of the socialist communist situation! He loves what he does and it seemed special! With passion for his work and with a lot of research, he made us live a piece of Berlin's history! I highly recommend it!

Other perspective of Berlin

Thanks for so interesting things we learnt,and we saw another perspective of Berlin !I highly recommend this tour !

Flew by so fast!

Tina was absolutely amazing for this tour! She was so well informed and so passionate about the topics, she did such and great job explaining and tying in all the history together. The tour was about 3 hours long but it felt like 1, it flew by so fast. I can't recommend more, this one is for the history needs.

Tina was great!

Tina was very knowledgeable and we learned a lot from her. I liked that her tour covered the history of communism prior to the development of East Berlin. The sites were pretty cool to check out!

terrific tour

Will's breadth and depth of knowledge plus his entertaining delivery made this a fascinating tour. Excellent pace, variety and use of context to describe both detail and the bigger picture. It made me look at Berlin differently.

Fun, informative, did I mention fun?

Congratulations Will. This was a very informative and great walking tour where our guide's enthusiasm and knowledge shone throughout. Very happy to have taken the the tour.

Very Weel Done Tour

Great Tour in the Comunist part of Berlin. Ru guide was clear and comprehensive without being too difficult to understand. As a suggestion, I'd like to add other stops, and maybe a visit to DDR museum.

Great overview of the history from 1918 and Alex does a great job in connecting the dots.

We had a nice time walking through several significant spots that tells us the history from the beginnings of the end of WW1. Alex is a friendly guide and a natural at his job. If you are not just looking for the monuments and sites, but also is interested in how to read them, connect to the history and store in your memory, then I think Alex does a great job in making it easy and digestible. Highly recommend it! My partner and I were on other Berlin tours also offered by the same organisation and I think this tour is a must and gives a condensed overview of Berlin like no other from a historical point of view.

A great tour and even better tour guide

The communist tour of Berlin was really interesting and informative. Our tour guide Alex was lovely and you could tell was deeply passionate about the rich history of the city. I’d highly recommend this tour with Alex to anyone visiting Berlin as it’s a wonderful way to spend the morning and see the city with someone who is clearly very knowledgeable and passionate about its rich history.

Very interesting and Fun

I have a very interesting to with Will. Even for Me as a frequent visier to Berlin it was a pleasure and I learned a lot about the city and its communist roots. Will is very knowledgeable guide additionally to the important information gave us loads of fun side stories and made us remember and feel the cities history. Thanks a lot

lovely

thank you Alex for this experience very informative, ultra cool

Insightful tour !

Great lecture and comments by our guide Ru. Very intersting revisit of last century history

Excelente tour

Hice el tour dos veces y ambos guías (Ru y Alex) fueron geniales. El inglés es súper claro y el tour es históricamente muy interesante. Súper recomendado si querés conocer cómo era la vida en el Este por fuera de la propaganda anti-soviética.

Ru was an amazing guide. He was knowledgeable and passionate. The tour was very informative, immersive, and creative. I really enjoyed the tour. Highly recommended!

Ru was awesome

great way of telling a story and summarizing a lot of history in 30min. Totally Recommended to get a better understanding of this part of history.

Excellent!

Ruairidh the Scottish gentleman led a fantastic tour! Thank you for a fun morning walking around Berlin and learning about the history.

Alex is an insightful gem

I was originally supposed to got to the Welcome to Berlin Tour, but decided to join the Berlin Communist & Socialist Tour and I was not disappointed. Alex was great all-around, starting from the historical knowledge to the easter eggs to the general tips about Berlin. Thank you for everything and if you are reading this do yourself and favour and take this tour.

Scottish 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 interpretation of the German Left

Ru nailed it! Fabulously entertaining tour that held our attention despite plummeting temperatures. The guy has passion for the material, entertains your questions and adds hilarious anecdotes along the way. A must for any politics nerds visiting!

Excellent tour by Rudi who was still excited by the story even for the umpteenth time of telling. Fabulous combination of broad sweeps of history and fine detail on the manipulations and hiccups of communication that change world events.

The things you don't learn in school

I enjoyed this tour and our guide very much. A unique angel to a dark period.

Great tour

Very informative and detailed, with a lot of historical context. Just keep in mind is from a liberal/slightly right-wing perspective.

Will is an interesting and knowledgeable guide-- highly recommended.

We've history buffs who have lived in Berlin for 10 years who know a fair amount about local history and we still learned and saw things we hadn't run into before on the tour. Highly recommended.

Really good

Ru was passionnating and very interesting

Excellent educational tour

Thanks Will for providing such an educational and informative tour. Will's presentation was well organized and filled with interesting facts and stories. His caring and gentle manner made for a quick 3 hour emersion in German socialist and communist history.

Would recommend to anyone visiting Berlin!

An compelling journey through Berlin and Germany's history. Our tour guide Ru was extremely knowledgeable and a great storyteller. Also gave us the chance to stop for a coffee which is always great on a longer tour! Really impressed

A quality history lesson on site

Ru is an amazing guide! Very informative and fun! It is amazing how much history is in every small details of the city!

Ru is an excellent guide and lecturer

The tour was most intrresting.

Interesting and Informative experience

We had a great tour with Will and got to learn a lot about Germany and Berlin’s Communist history. Will didn’t just bring us to the Berlin Wall and tell stories about the Stasi, instead we heard about the growth and evolution of Communism in Germany in a way that was contextually relevant to the sites we visited along the way.

Amazing tour ⭐️

Today i had the best tour because of the brilliant guide Will. His knowledge about the topics and his passion made it really easy and enjoyable to follow along. I learned a lot of new interesting things about Berlin. I would recommend him and this tour to everyone !

Nice tour on socialist Berlin woth Alex

We had a nice time woth Alex discovering the socialist history of Berlin. The visit and Alex's commentaries were good although I think that we could have spent less time on the pure history telling with the relief of the Mutter Hoppe restaurant (many events were covered in previous Walkative tours) and maybe spend some time visiting the Eastern part of the city around Frankfurter Tor (maybe toward the Stasi museum or Stasi prison)

3 tours gedaan!

Wij (2pers) hebben de welcome to Berlin tour gelopen via walkative met Dara. Dara heeft een aardig loop tempo. Wat voor deze groep prima was. Ook zijn praat tempo is snel, te volgen, maar snel. Hij is duidelijk gek op zijn vak. Dol op vertellen/praten! Geeft ook veel extra side informatie, erg boeiend. Ondanks zijn hoge praat en loop tempo liep de tour bijna een half uur uit. Wij (2pers) hebben met Will via Walketive de Communist & Socialist Berlin Tour gedaan. Will heeft er duidelijk veel verstand van en echt passie voor geschiedenis. Volgens de website van Walketive zou de tour tot 12.30 duren echter sloten we 13.20 af. Ook staat er niet in de omschrijving dat je AB ov tickets nodig hebt voor deze tour. Waar Dara de hele groep betrok als een deelnemer hem aantikte voor een vraag maakte Will het antwoord af ook als de rest inmiddels stond te wachten. Dit is eigenlijk de standaard met alle tours die ik gedaan heb, meer een groot conpliment naar Dara dat hij de hele groep betrekt. Wij (2pers) hebben de Berlin Under The Swastika gelopen via walkative met Campbell. Deze tour heeft de focus op de Nazi's en de Joden. Ook hier staat niet dat je een OV ticket nodig hebt maar is wel zo. De tour duurde 2 uur en 45 minuten. Was goed te volgen. Goed wandel tempo. Goed verhaal. Fijne verteller. Ik raad wel aan met de welcome to Berlin tour te beginnen.

6 Stars for Will

Had a fantastic walk with Will. His knowledge was amazing as is his passion. There is so much to take in here that you need a guide to show you things you would never find on your own. Plus have the personality to lead the group and keep it together. It was my 3rd Walkative tour in 3 days. Did not disappoint. Looking forward to more Walkative tours in Poland.

Berlin Communist and Socialist Tour

An absolutely terrific tour with Ru, knowledgable, approachable, enthusiastic and well balanced account of the origins and development of socialism in Berlin. I thought I knew a lot about this topic and I learned so much! So enjoyable, 100% recommend!

Great history tour, needs better spacing

Alex was a great tour guide with a very clear voice that would fit nicely on a radio show. He clearly has learned much about Berlin and its history during his 14 years living there which he will showcase in great detail during the tour. A few things I would suggest: - Shorten the time spent at Volksbühne. There is a lot of history on the relief there but it felt we spent too much time on it relative to the other sites - Go to Frankfurter Tor earlier or change that part of the tour. We took a train to the area but there was really only one point of interest there. Everywhere else, we walked to and had more points of interest along the way so that part felt a little disjointed. - Some standing points were too close to the road so it was hard to hear Alex over the sound of cars.

Great storytelling!

We were a small group led by Alex. Great mustache and for an English man a nice person! He introduced us in the communism in general and more specific into the DDRs version of it. Even though I know a lot of the topic I got introduced to a lot more knowledge. Very interesting tour and I would highly recommend it. Would be even better with more hasselhoff comments though, but that's nitpicking!

Great tour

A very good introduction to Berlin, a well designed mixture of basic facts, useful info and quirky details. The guide (forgot the name, but Scottish :) ), was really good, combining knowledge, humour, light vibe and some deeper reflection. Especially appreciate - as a tour guide myself - that he found shade for the group when possible, spoke very clearly and loud enough and kept the pace impeccably! Really recommended!

Not the stuff you already know

Recently did both the Swastika and the Communism tours with Will. Both are highly recommended. I was hesitant to spend too much of my short time in Berlin on Nazis or the Cold War. (Is that all Americans know about?) Or to get a tedious recitation of stuff I’ve heard a million times before. These tours were not that. Will is extremely knowledgeable, his talk was deeply tied to specific locations, many of which were not the obvious ones. And much it was completely new to me. Highly recommended!

Really recommendable

It was a great tour, one would think it would be long but Ru, our guide, made it go by as it was 15 minutes. We really enjoyed learning from him and the city. If you are hesitating in which tour to get, I really encourage you to try and do this one. You will not be disappointed!

Incredible

Will is a really good guide. The tour was rich in details and history. It was 3 hours of a incredible experience.

Excellent tour

Great content, engagingly delivered by the very knowledgeable tour guide Ru.

Brilliant

Our guide, Ru, was excellent. He obviously had a sound knowledge of the topic and we enjoyed his sense of humour and his personal insights. We would recommend this as, not only was it a very informative tour, but also a useful addition to our understanding of the city.

Best walking tour I've ever been on - top guides!

I've been on tons of walking tours all over Europe, and this genuinely was the best ever. Will presented the information in an engaging and approachable manner, he was friendly, chatty and affable, and the tour was just so interesting! He also took the time to answer my questions as I am massively into this subject. To top it all off, he was supported by Jules, who is basically Berlin personified, just the coolest lady around! She had great stories of her friends and family in the DDR days. I didn't want the tour to end. If you've got either of these two or both on your tour, you're in for an absolute treat!! Danke Will & Jules!!

Very interesting and entertaining, great tour guide

I went to Berlin with 6 friends. I booked this tour for the whole group, in the beginning they were not so excited about going on a 3 hour walk on Saturday morning to learn about History. But I am a History teacher myself and kind of forced them to come along. Alex gave the tour, it was clear he enjoyed what he was doing, apart from sharing a lot and very interesting information about the city, the art and history of East Berlin. Of course the tour was a great experience overall, but shout-out to Alex who did such a good job and prevented my friends from getting angry at me and my insistence in getting the morning tour!!!! Would definitely recommend.

Very interesting tour

A bit different perspective than other guided tours. Ru had a fenomenal skill of providing us all facts in an extremely vivid way. The tour is highly recommended.

Berlin Communist & Socialist Tour

Great tour by Ru! Learned a lot and thought the pace and amount of rich information was perfect. I also appreciated the arc of his story telling.

If I could give it 6 stars I would......

Thank you Tina!!! I joined Tina for the Communist & Socialist Tour recently and it was probably the best walking tour I've done anywhere ever, Tina was great! Huge knowledge about the subject took questions and engaged with all the guests on the tour, it did not seem to matter how long things took we were never rushed, I felt nothing was skipped, she was just brilliant, this tour was the highlight of my trip to berlin.

Like a walking history lesson

Really enjoyed this tour. Was interesting to hear so much about the Communist period in Berlin.

Great tour

Ru was a great tour guide, knowledgable in the rise of socialism as well as the lasting legacies. Highly recommended

Muy interesante

Mia nos relató de forma muy dinámica y entendible el punto de vista soviético, el lugar que se le dio en la guerra y lo que sucedió después, muy detallado el punto de vista del socialismo frente a la guerra, las victimas y detalles del memorial. Fue muy interesante y recomiendo.

Very interesting tour with Will!

We joined the tour by tour guide Will, it was a pleasure listening to his stories (he could do good build-ups :-) ) and he was happy to answer our questions.

Great tour

I did the tour wirh will and is a very intesting tour, he really knows about the topic, explains it really well and is always happy to answer any questions

Brilliant tour!

Will was tremendously informative without being either too highbrow or dumbed down. He had a warm personality, and an engaging and warm manner. Can't recommend too highly (and that's on a cold, wet February day!)

Best tour we ever had - thanks to Will!

My husband (American) and I (German) booked the tour - it was incredible. Will is an excellent tour guide, able to answer each and every question and the entire tour is on very high level. I'm a school teacher and teach history myself - I couldn't have had a better tour guide.

Great Tour

Will was an amazing tour guide and this was a really great tour. It was well designed and didn’t overlap with the Welcome tour we had done earlier in the week. Our whole family really enjoyed it.

Comprehensive tour with excellent quality

Rui is a passionate tour guide who not only discusses the presence of socialism and communism in Berlin but also the evolution of Germany and history of the city through the Prussian, WWI, Weimar, and the Cold War period. An experience of Berlin that you can't miss!

Beste gids tor nu roe gezien

Gids Will (brit) afgestudeerd op dit onderwerp in Berlijn kon niet beter. Heel veel informatie en duiding met humor gepresenteerd

History with a tinge of philosophy in a refreshing way

Despite the cold weather, our family (my husband, 11-year-old son and I) had an amazing experience. Rui was a charismatic guide, with an impressive grasp of the subject, who managed to give an insight into the historical period in a simple and engaging way, considering the philosophical perspective, as well. Given that I, myself, am coming from a post-socialist country, he managed to render the facts and public attitudes in an objective way. The design of the experience was a bit static though - there was more lecturing than walking and the experience/knowledge of the group was not sought nor integrated.

I am engineer

Interesting Tour

Alex was a great guide. Many new facts Suann

Fantastic tour

Even in the intense cold, Will was excellent and kept us interested. He has a lot of knowledge, would do it again!!

One of the best thins u did on my trip to Berlin

You'll learn a lot!!! The guide is very knowledgeable and shares very interesting insights on the historical importance of the communists and socialist movements in Berlin.

Another great tour

Another fantastic tour. Will was so knowledgable. If you are in Berlin, book one of the tours around the city. A fantastic way to learn about history

The communist and socialist tour

We hade a great time with Alex as a guide. He was an amazing, funny and enthusiastic guide. Extra plus for the moustasche!

Fascinating tour

Really insightful and interesting. Time flew by as Rui packed in loads of interesting facts and really brought the city alive. Thank you.

Highlight of Berlin trip

The tour with Alex was one of the highlights during our stay in Berlin, giving great historical perspectives to our visit; definitely recommend this one!

Amazing tour

I am very happy that we were able to take part in the tour with Ruarid. He is a great storyteller, for 3 hours there wasn’t a minute where we would be bored or even less interested in what he was explaining, has great history knowledge and marvellous sense of humor. One of the best tours I have ever done. Really recommended

Excellent tour!

If you are at all curious about Berlin in the 20th century, this is your tour. Will is like a walking encyclopedia of knowledge about this era, but what's equally important is that he also asks the right questions and helps you understand just how complicated things were. Definitely a tour that will make you think!

Nailed it!

Will is an exceptional tour guide. Knowledgeable to the point of nerdy but doesn’t at all intimidate, totally understands how hard it is to absorb Berlin’s complex history, during and after the Nazi regime. I highly recommend you take this tour.

Deep dive into history

Great tour with Will, we really enjoyed our time and learned a lot, he's very knowledgeable and his fun attitude created a very relaxed and pleasant atmosphere. Will felt passionate both about the city and about his job as a guide, he brought a lot of dedication into those over 3 hours we spent all together. A separate and special thanks for always keeping us in the shade on a torrid day :D

Great tour

The tour was really great, it had a lot if history but it was explained in easy to understand way. Recommending everyone to check it out

Great tour and guide

This tour explains so much about Berlin and Will does it all excellently.

Fascinating tour with Will

Great tour, probably one of the best walking tours I've done. Will was extremely informative and able to answer my the questions. He was funny and 3 hours flew by. Cheers mate

Excellent tour

It was a very informative tour and Alex was a great guide and a amazing storyteller. There are a lot of places/aspects that I wouldn’t have notice and or know about without going on the tour which was particularly interesting. Throughly enjoyed it.

Communist and socialist tour

It was such a good tour! Alex was great! I have known the story about themistakenly fallen wall always, but Alex is such a good storyteller, that I was thrilled to hear it!

A Must Do Tour in Berlin

Wow… this tour really showed us more about Berlin than we would have ever found on our own. Alex, our guide, had an amazing amount of knowledge. I only wish we had more time in Berlin to do the other tours that were available. We have already booked Walkative Tours for our next trips to different countries. I will be recommending Walkative to everyone travelling anywhere that you have tours running. Best introduction to a new city we have ever had.

Thank you Will! A+ tour!

We joined Will’s tour yesterday and loved it. We had our 14 year old son and our 12 year old daughter with us who learnt so much and were kept engaged the whole time with how Will delivered the information. His passion shone through as well as his enthusiasm about history especially around these topics. We also appreciated the tips for other places to visit for more learning or just the food recommendations. Highly recommend!

The best tour with Will

Will provides a very objective point of view about the history of socialism & communism in Berlin. Hi gives a lot of content (easy to follow) and information focusing on each idea and the connection between the ideas. We really recommend the tour with Will. It's interesting for everybody, wether you know or you don't know about the topic. Best tour we have been on.

Great tour with Will

Will was an outstanding guide. His explanations were very clear and engaging. You will not be disappointed!

Very informative

Ru was a brilliant guide sharing a vast amount of knowledge around the growth of Communism and Socialism in Germany. It was great to have a few stops around the city focusing on areas of history you wouldn’t get to see or learn about if you were by yourself. Ru was very approachable and welcomed questions, he made the three hours go past very quickly!

Just brilliant so we’ll informed‼️

Ru s knowledge was excellent and even though I know quite a bit about this subject I was just thrilled to be shown aspects of Berlin that are new to me after three months living in Berlin ‼️thank you so much‼️

Very informative

Thanks a lot RU to bring me through your historical Tour. I appreciate your passionate way of keeping us on the topic. Great tour, a most to understand better this city.

Great job Will!

Enjoyed the tour and lots of unique info shared! I learned so much. Keep it up Will! Woo! :)

Fantastic and Informative

The tour with Will was great. He had great knowledge about the Communist and Socialist history and present of Berlin, which he presented in an easy to follow way. He ensured there were moments of fun and we enjoyed the tour thoroughly

Will is an amazing guide! I enjoyed each minute of the tour!

10/10

The Communist and Socialist Tour with Will was my highlight of my stay in Berlin. I recommend the tour also for non-foreign tourists and history nerds.

Amazing!

Will was absolutely a gem during the whole tour. Solid in every aspect, his knowledge of the complex history embedded in Berlin´s cultural heritage is phenomenal. His sense of humor and wit made the whole experience of absorbing this dense information digestible. I will say a must while you visit here, with Will!

Recommended

Ru(airidh) was my guide, he is obviously very passionate about the subject. Had a great time, he encouraged questions and recommended further reading to anyone who wanted more information. Mick

Loved it! Will was a great guide, so enthusiastic and fun, made the tour very interesting

New side of Berlin

Will was great! Knew so much and shared it in a fun and digestible way for a rather convoluted topic. Very interesting learning about a side of Berlin I didn’t know much about, but that is so instrumental to germanys history. Also love how easy Walkative is and how it really is for everyone- especially for travellers who are on a budget but want to learn about where they are!

Socialism tour of Berlin

Great Tour! RU is really motivated and knows it's subject very well

One of the best tours of my mide if not THE BEST

Will is brilliant and getting to hear him talk about Berlin and everything the town has to give on socialism and communism is a true honor. He’s funny, witty, smart and allows for an amazing tour experience to happen. You walk all over Berlin, learning so much it feels like the best history class you’d ever have. Truly getting to go on his tour is an amazing experience.

Communist and Socialist Tour.

Great tour. Informative and -- believe it or not -- highly entertaining. Will, our guide, is really excellent and one of the best guides I've had, and I've been on about ten tours during the past five years. Highly recommended.

Great insight into the history of Berlin

The tour goes through the most significant events that determined the course of history during the communist and socialist era, with depth and latitude, with genuine recreation of the mood of the time, in connection with Berlin landmarks. A great insightful journey that our guide Ru delivered in a well structured and passionate way. Highly recommended.

Hidden Jems

Great tour! Shows you places related to the subject that I definitely would have missed otherwise. A little bit hard to follow, I recommend doing some research beforehand. Will was able amazing tourguide, funny and interesting.

Berlin Communist and Socialist tour

Will is a great tour guide. He provided lots of information with a delightful delivery. We have been to Berlin many times and it was great to get new insights in an incredible city.

Great tour

Will was a fantastic tour guide. He was extremely knowledgable and passionate about the subject matter. We were a large group of 23 but everyone stayed to the end which is a good reflection on how much everyone enjoyed the tour.

Fantastic Tour!

This was my 5th walking tour in Berlin and my favorite by far. Alex was very knowledgeable and had lots of alternative fun facts to share. He was very kind, easy to talk to, and super considerate of the group. Highly recommend!

Ru's the Man

Very interesting and important history and Ru relays it in a very entertaining way. He's super friendly and knowledgeable and the three hour tour went by quickly. It ends right at a super cool area at the Berlin wall which I explored after with people I met on the tour!

Informative

What a wonderful opportunity to "see" Berlin in the "light" of its Socialistic and Communistic past. Alex did a wonderful job of expanding on this history while showing us the architectural evidence of this period. Well worth one's time!

Berlin Communist & Socialist Tour

So interesting to learn about this side of Berlin's history. Alex was a brilliant guide, packing in loads of information as well as funny anecdotes and details that brought it all to life. I can highly recommend.

Interesting and involving

Will is very passionate about the topic and has a big knowledge. Great tour!

Amazing!

Tina was an amazing tour guide! She was not only funny, but extremely informative about different artifacts and landmarks regarding socialism in Berlin. Although there were bits that take a little more time to digest, Tina was very patient and was more than happy, welcome to answer burning questions or give clarification. Hope you have her as your tour guide!

Absolutely wonderful!

The tour was extremely interesting as well as entertaining! Will seemed extremely knowledgeable and passionate about the subject which really have life to the things he told! All around great and highly recommended!

Amazing tour, great guide!

I learned a great deal of information from the tour! The guide is super nice, knowledgeable, and has a great talent to explain events and tell stories. I would really recommend!

A passionate guide

Will was our highly qualified and passionate guide. We were very impressed with his knowledge and easy way of retelling this complicated story. We saw places we wouldn’t have seen without him and understood other places we had seen but hadn’t fully appreciated.

Amazing Tour！

William is extremely knowledgeable and good at delivering the histories and anecdotes of Berlin. Truly educative and enjoyable.

Berlin socialist and communist tour

Very enjoyable,anccessible and I learned loads. Will was our guide -he was very personable, knowledgeable and presented a complex subject with panache Thankyou!

Berlin and Communist tour and Berlin under Fascism

My son and I took 2 tours with RU this past week. They were both excellent. Our guide was very knowledgeable and passionate about the subjects covered Recommended for all history buffs

Great tour, great guide

Had an amazing tour with Ru. Very informative, Ru did a great job at breaking down the crucial moments and ideologies that lead to the rise and fall of the DDR

Very interesting tour with a really captivating guide!

Ru breaks down a long and complicated yet incredibly rich history into a collection of short stories that tie really well to one another. He does so while taking you to small and almost hidden statues or murals that perfectly illustrate his narrative. Very interesting, great sense of humour, and makes you leave the tour with a different and pov of Berlin, with all its historical, political l, philosophical context.

Great tour, great guide

Ru did an excellent job. You can tell he is passionate about history and about sharing this with visitors. 100% recommended!

Berlin

With Will as our guide I learned a lot of little things that I never realized about the struggles of GERMANY and the rise and fall of Hitler. Great tour

Great tour

The tour guide, Will, was very nice and funny. He offered very insightful information and explained everything with great detail, even giving recommendations of other places to visit to understand more about the subject.

Amazing Tour and a great guide

The tour was very good, Will (the guide) covered many essential spots with detailed history. Much recommended, to understand the Berlin as a city of rebels.

How the great ideas have been used wrongly

We liked the trip a lot. Mary gave us a good background to understand the commusism and socialism, introduced Karel Marx, Friedrich Engels, Karel Liebknecht and RosaLuxemburg to us and explained how their ideas were changed by their successors into the systems that costs (too) many lives. Made us thinking not only about history...

Insightful and balanced

I was super impressed with my tour guide Ru. He’s not only knowledgeable - and a nice person, he also managed to give an insightful and balanced view of the history of East Berlin and DDR. I would highly recommend this tour to anyone who is serious about understanding this chapter in the German history.

Knowledgeable, fun and engaging

This tour was led by our enthusiastic and knowledgeable guide, Will. As a native English speaker and historian, Will was able to explain everything in great detail, making the tour even more informative and engaging. We highly recommend.

Awesome tour

The tour was great. Will is a very knowledgeable person about Germany’s history as well as good ideas for spots to spend time at. Thank you Will

Amazing and sophisticated guide

Ru was an amazing guide who gave us a very good overview of Berlin‘s history. Super happy with the tour, we will come back.

No words!

Absolutely AMAZING tour. The level of knowledge shared, the amount of information and the sensibility! One of the best tours I had ever! Marisha was 100% amazing!

Great fun and very informative!

Ru was an excellent guide - he was erudite and enthusiastic in equal measure!

Ru was Rad!

After our first tour earlier in the week my wife and I decided to return for this tour. We’re very glad we did! Our guide Ru was very friendly and above all gave us a context for learning about the communist history of Berlin that we certainly didn’t have before! Definitely a recommended tour.

Fascinating tour with Ru

Today we went on the Berlin Communist and Socialist Tour with Ru. This was a great learning experience for us— we had already been to a few museums that taught us about the DDR but this tour provided the overarching background information to understand how and why the DDR came to be plus the background of Communist/Socialist movements in Germany since the mid-1800s. Ru was so informative and friendly and gave us great recommendations for afterward as well!

A difficult topic made accessible

A very well informed tour, which was delivered expertly by Will. His knowledge and ability to engage is fantastic. He was able to make concepts that can be challenging easy to understand without taking anything away from the topics themselves. I also love an additional visual aid so his use of pictures along the way to show comparison really does elevate what you get from this tour. It was our third walking tour of the city and at no point did we feel like we were just repeating ourself, there was so much on offer.

Highlight of my trip

Best walking tour I’ve ever experienced! Will is so knowledgeable and friendly, his understanding of the political history of the city (particularly gender politics under the different political regimes) was impressive. I appreciated how frank and honest he was in describing the history of both sides without glossing over the contentious parts. The tour was well structured for the time frame. I learned so much and had fun at the same time. Thanks Will!

Thought provoking tour with Mari

Booked this tour as I wanted something with more “depth” and that’s exactly what we had with both Mari’s historical explanations and insights into the context underpinning change. She did not rush through the stories and gave ample opportunity for interaction with and between participants. One of the best tours I’ve been on (and I’ve done many in various countries). Can highly recommend the experience.

A must for visitors to Berlin with interest in political history!

The tour guided by Mari was very interesting. She took us to often overlooked signs and explained everything with great knowledge and passion. We now far better the history of communism and socialism and the differences between them. Thanks again Mari!

Great tour for the history and ideas of socialism in Berlin

My tour guide, Mary, was incredibly informative and passionate about the subject. Her passion for figures such as Rosa Luxemburg is intoxicating! The tour consisted in visiting some key landmarks (prominently, memorials of Germany's socialist past) as Mary explained the history and ideas that motivated them. The tour is also a great chance to meet people and a few of us, including Mary, went for drinks afterwards!

Tour with Mary

Our tour guide was Mary and she showed and told us all aspects of Berlin during the World War I and II, Cold war, and nowadays. It was a very delighting walking, mainly because she compared with others countries and cities and showed not known places. I will definitely participate again when I come back to Berlin.

Amazing Tour

A very informative, entertaining and interesting tour led by Mary. Thank you very much.

A wonderful informative tour with Mari

Very informative, interesting, and Mari brought her expertise and very personal passion for the subject all along the way, especially on the subject of Rosa Luxembourg. A fun way to tour the city and meet other tourists too!

Marisia is the best!

We discovered things today about the history of socialism, communism and German history. Not just facts and figures but feelings, adaptation and evolution. Marisia spoke about the slippery slope when power is selected over principle, even for pragmatic and purposeful reasons. We were introduced to major historical figures I had never heard about. And we felt their passions and motivations. It was a wonderful tour! Thank you, Marisia!

Highly recommended tour and guide. Don’t miss till the last stop (despite weather)

We spent the afternoon with the most informative, intellectual and well presenting guide - Marisha (Mary)

Interesting your with Mary

Very interesting and informative your. A new perspective of history. Mery was very nice and friendly. Really recomend this tour for every one.

Amazing tour with Will

The time went by super fast as Will made explanations super interesting. He certainly knows how to explain and keep my attention at all times. Thank you!

Passionate and Enthusiastic

Adam is clearly an expert in this field, he is passionate, knowledgeable and enthusiastic. Some really good info and the walk was done at a comfortable pace. Learnt loads about this specific Berlin era and history.

Brilliant

Even an absolutely freezing cold snowy Berlin day couldn't stop Mary as she gave us a fantastic rundown on the rise and fall of Communism and Socialism in Berlin. A massive ask for a 3 hour walking tour, but Mary managed it excellently. Learning of her personal connection to the topic also added another level of understanding and appreciation of the impact and importance of the ideologies on history and on the modern world. Came away with eyes very much opened. Bonus, her tips for amazing dinner options nearby afterwards were also spot on! Dzięki Mary!

An informatve walk through history

The tour was great - Mary is a passionate guide with comprehensive knowledge of the subject!

Very nice tour with Mary

Very nice and constructive tour about the historical ground of communism and socialism in Berlin. Our guide, Mary, was very interesting and knowledgeable in sociology. This tour really puts these ideologies in perspective.

Amazing

Will was our guide and was excellent at explaining everything and also any questions people had definitely recommended.

Very instructive tour

well managed and perfectly organized. I learned a lot and really appreciated Will as a guide. Thanks again! Xabi from Paris.

Amazing!

It was my second walking tour with Walkative and it was just perfect. The guide (Will) was super nice and gave us a lot of details. Definitely going to do all of the tours in Berlin :)