Ich bin ein Berliner - I am a Berliner
What a city, what a history, today the first of four, has been more than we have hoped for.
In researching this stopover I was able to find a lot of information regarding WWI and WWII, however I've realised this is only a very short period in the Berlin history.
Our tour guide Alex from
Berlin Walks was a full and complete World Book Encyclopedia on Berlin and Germany. We covered much ground and many sites during our four and a half tour through mostly the old East Berlin sector. This covered most of the main sights and also enforced the fact Berlin is not just about the World Wars.
Some highlights were
- Palace Square (Scholssplatz)
- New Wache
- Bebelplatz (not the home of Justin Beiber)
- Unter den Linden
- Russian Embassy
- Brandenberger Tor (Brandenberg Gate)
- Memorial to the murdered Jews of Europe
- Location of Hitler's Bunker and his marriage and suicide
- Checkpoint Charlie
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| Katie and the Berliner Dom |
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| New Museum |
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| Alex - Our tour guide |
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| New Wache |
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| Bebelplatz where 20,000 books were burnt |
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| Bebelplatz memorial, empty white bookshelves |
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| Inside the memorial to the murdered Jews of Europe |
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| Inside the memorial to the murdered Jews of Europe |
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| Preserved section of the Berlin Wall - we are standing on the death strip side |
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Checkpoint Charlie
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Tomorrow - tour of Sachsenhausen concentration camp and memorial
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