No other city embodies the drama of espionage quite like Berlin. For decades, its streets were the stage for secret exchanges, double agents and coded whispers that shaped the course of history. In the tense years of the Cold War, it was the world’s spy capital — a place where every café might conceal an informant and every conversation might be recorded.
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City Of Secrets: Inside The German Spy Museum In Berlin
Berlin’s Spy Museum sits on the ghostly edge of the old “death strip,” a place where walls once divided lives and secrets. Here, the past whispers through cipher machines, hidden cameras, and the faint thrill of Cold War espionage
OT Staff
8 November 2025
The German Spy Museum, a gleaming glass landmark on Leipziger Platz Photo: Lukas Beck/Wiki Commons
The German Spy Museum, a gleaming glass landmark on Leipziger Platz Photo: Lukas Beck/Wiki Commons
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