Niederkirchnerstraße is a street in Berlin, Germany and was named after Käthe Niederkirchner. The thoroughfare was known as Prinz-Albrecht-Straße until 1951 but the name was changed by the East German government. The street was the location of the SS Reich Security Main Office (RSHA), the headquarters of the Sicherheitspolizei, SD, Einsatzgruppen and Gestapo. The site is now marked by the Topography of Terror memorial and a museum, which includes a permanent exhibition showing the crimes of Nazism.
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The Europe-Buddy-Bear in front of the Federal Ministry of Finance in the Niederkirchnerstrasse
Image: Berlin Mitte Niederkirchner 05 2014
Käthe Niederkirchner was a German Communist resistance activist who was fatally shot by Nazi paramilitaries on the night of 27/28 September 1944 at Ravensbrück concentration camp.
Memorial plaque, Käthe Niederkirchner, Pappelallee 22, Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg