Berlin: Tales of the Underworld & Underground History

Begin your walking tour in Mitte and hear about the audacious 1929 bank vault heist, when two brothers tunneled in over a weekend and became folk heroes. Then, step into the world of the Ringvereine, Weimar Berlin’s gangster clubs, complete with statutes, funerals, and rival detectives who loved cake.

From there, the story goes literally underground. Hear how East Berlin’s sealed “ghost stations” sat dark and guarded while Western trains rolled silently through, and how the divided city’s transit system became a front line.

End your tour at the Berlin Wall Memorial on Bernauer Straße, where you’ll hear stories of the escape tunnels and the Allied spy tunnel that tapped Soviet phone lines, and of the people who risked everything to dig them. Finish with a drink at a local bar to toast what Berlin buried and what it kept.

We weave history, myths and underworld vibes into this tour.