2007 Trips - Berlin (Photo Report)
Potsdamer Platz (Deutsch Bahn headquarters - German Rail)
The Monument to the Murdered Jews of Europe - Jewish Holocaust Memorial, 2700 concrete slabs not far from Brandenburg Gate, Berlin
This bombed church symbolizes the destruction of war.
Kaiser Wilhelm Church from different angle. A new, octagonal church was built alongside the existing tower.
FC Hertha Berlin merchandising store. Berlin's pride in Bundesliga.
Inside BMW Z4, you feel part of it.
BMW 327/28, gorgeous!
inside BMW Z4
Checkpoint Charlie, one of the ultimate symbols of the Cold War, came to epitomize the separation between east and west. For nearly 30 years, this checkpoint represented not only a divided Germany but a world in political turmoil. The Berlin Wall was erected in 1961 by the East German government. Shortly after the wall was built, President John F. Kennedy ordered U.S. forces to build three checkpoints at different points in the wall through which diplomatic corps and allied forces could enter West Berlin. Checkpoint Charlie became the most famous. Checkpoint Charlie got its name from the American alphabet. (The others were Alpha and Bravo…a, b, c). By 1962, this checkpoint was the only place at which foreigners visiting Berlin could cross from West to East and back again. Located in the Friedrichstadt neighborhood in the heart of Berlin, the checkpoint was the subject of many movies and appeared frequently in spy novels penned during the Cold War era.
with 1-Euro-for-photo "U.S. guard" at Checkpoint Charlie
Tank Confrontation ...Ten of these Soviet tanks continued to Friedrichstraße, and stopped just 50 to 100 yards (46 to 91 metres) from the Checkpoint on the Soviet side of the sector boundary. The US tanks turned back towards the Checkpoint, stopping an equal distance from it on the American side of the boundary. And they just waited. From 27 October 1961 at 17:00 until 28 October 1961 at about 11:00, the respective troops faced each other. As per standing orders, both groups of tanks were loaded. The alert levels of the US Garrison in West Berlin, then NATO, and finally the US Strategic Air Command (SAC) were raised. Both groups of tanks had orders to fire if fired upon... Khrushchev and Kennedy agreed to reduce tensions by withdrawing the tanks... (Wikipedia)
"You are leaving the American Sector" sign still stands at Checkpoint Charlie
Soviet Army hats are sold as souvenirs in Berlin
Berlin World Clock. See "Bishkek" above the borderline of 20 and 21.
Bear - symbol of Berlin. Many buildings have this bear with raised hands statue in their front.
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Remainings of Berlin Wall. On August 13, 1961 the communist East German government started to build a wall, physically separating West Berlin from East Berlin and the rest of East Germany, as a response to massive numbers of East German citizens fleeing into West Berlin as a way to escape to the west. The East German government called the Wall the "anti-fascist protection wall". (Wikipedia)
Through central Berlin you will see this indicated line where once stood the Berlin Wall.
Kaiser Wilhelm Church from different angle. A new, octagonal church was built alongside the existing tower.
FC Hertha Berlin merchandising store. Berlin's pride in Bundesliga.
Inside BMW Z4, you feel part of it.
BMW 327/28, gorgeous!
inside BMW Z4
Checkpoint Charlie, one of the ultimate symbols of the Cold War, came to epitomize the separation between east and west. For nearly 30 years, this checkpoint represented not only a divided Germany but a world in political turmoil. The Berlin Wall was erected in 1961 by the East German government. Shortly after the wall was built, President John F. Kennedy ordered U.S. forces to build three checkpoints at different points in the wall through which diplomatic corps and allied forces could enter West Berlin. Checkpoint Charlie became the most famous. Checkpoint Charlie got its name from the American alphabet. (The others were Alpha and Bravo…a, b, c). By 1962, this checkpoint was the only place at which foreigners visiting Berlin could cross from West to East and back again. Located in the Friedrichstadt neighborhood in the heart of Berlin, the checkpoint was the subject of many movies and appeared frequently in spy novels penned during the Cold War era.
with 1-Euro-for-photo "U.S. guard" at Checkpoint Charlie
Tank Confrontation ...Ten of these Soviet tanks continued to Friedrichstraße, and stopped just 50 to 100 yards (46 to 91 metres) from the Checkpoint on the Soviet side of the sector boundary. The US tanks turned back towards the Checkpoint, stopping an equal distance from it on the American side of the boundary. And they just waited. From 27 October 1961 at 17:00 until 28 October 1961 at about 11:00, the respective troops faced each other. As per standing orders, both groups of tanks were loaded. The alert levels of the US Garrison in West Berlin, then NATO, and finally the US Strategic Air Command (SAC) were raised. Both groups of tanks had orders to fire if fired upon... Khrushchev and Kennedy agreed to reduce tensions by withdrawing the tanks... (Wikipedia)
"You are leaving the American Sector" sign still stands at Checkpoint Charlie
Soviet Army hats are sold as souvenirs in Berlin
Berlin World Clock. See "Bishkek" above the borderline of 20 and 21.
Bear - symbol of Berlin. Many buildings have this bear with raised hands statue in their front.
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Remainings of Berlin Wall. On August 13, 1961 the communist East German government started to build a wall, physically separating West Berlin from East Berlin and the rest of East Germany, as a response to massive numbers of East German citizens fleeing into West Berlin as a way to escape to the west. The East German government called the Wall the "anti-fascist protection wall". (Wikipedia)
Through central Berlin you will see this indicated line where once stood the Berlin Wall.
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Berlin trip mates; Alex, his Spanish friend and Jiri
The Reichstag building in Berlin was constructed to house the Reichstag, the original parliament of the German Empire. It was opened in 1894 and housed the Reichstag until 1933, when it was allegedly burned down by a Dutch communist who was later beheaded for the crime, although it might have been the Nazi Party who committed the crime in an attempt to flush out Communism. The fire was used by the Nazi party as a pretext to take over the Government completely. That verdict has been a subject of controversy over the years. The National Socialist Party used this event as casus belli to begin a purge of "traitors" in Berlin and to ban the KPD, the German Communist Party. The Reichstag building again became the seat of the German parliament in 1999 after a reconstruction led by internationally renowned architect Norman Foster. Today's parliament of Germany is called the Bundestag. The Reichstag as a parliament dates back to the Holy Roman Empire and ceased to act as a true parliament in the years of the Nazi regime 1945). (Wikipedia)Also, famous photo of Soviet soldiers raising the Soviet Flag in 1945 victory was taken on the roof of Reichstag.
Berlin Hauptbahnhof , or Berlin Central Station, is the main railway station in Berlin, Germany. It began full operation two days after a ceremonial opening on 26 May 2006, just before Germany's host to Football World Cup. It is now Europe's largest two-level railway station. (Indeed it is very modern and high-tech! I was amazed by it after getting out from the train. It's hundred times nicer than Prague's Main Station.)Accident on the opening day; The opening ceremony was marred by an attack by a drunken 16-year old youth wielding a knife, who stabbed members of the public leaving the ceremony. Forty-one people were wounded, six seriously, before the youth was arrested. According to police, the youth says he cannot remember his act of violence and is still denying it. One of the first stabbing victims was HIV-positive, leading to worries that other victims may have been infected, although this did not prove to be the case.(Wikipedia)
With old friend from high-school - Dastan
The Brandenburg Gate is a former city gate and one of the main symbols of Berlin, Germany. It is the only remaining gate of a series through which one formerly entered Berlin. One block to its north lies the Reichstag. It constitutes the monumental termination of Unter den Linden, the renowned boulevard of linden (lime) trees which led directly to the royal residence. It was commissioned by Friedrich Wilhelm II as a sign of peace and built by Carl Gotthard Langhans1788 to 1791... ...When the Nazis ascended to power they used the Gate as their symbol. The Gate survived World War II and was one of few structures standing in the Pariser Platz ruins in 1945. The governments of East Berlin and West Berlin restored it, but the gate was closed when the Berlin Wall was erected in 1961... ...When the Revolutions of 1989 collapsed the Berlin Wall, the Gate then symbolized the freedom to unity of the City of Berlin. On the 22nd of December 1989, the Brandenburg Gate re-opened when Helmut Kohl, the West German Chancellor, walked through to be greeted by Hans Modrow, the East German Prime Minister. (Wikipedia)
The Swarovski Christmas tree enchants the visitors of Berlin central station. The tree is exclusively decorated with thousands of Swarovski crystal ornaments. More than 44,000 Christmas ornaments and glittering crystals transform the tree into an extraordinary feast for the eyes. 
Berlin streets
Chocolate model of bombed Kaiser Wilhelm Church
Chocolate model of Brandenburg Gate
Chocolate model of Reichstag
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Try doing a Google search for 'Berlin Central Station stabbing'... Funny, isn't it, how there are almost NO news reports about this atrocity. THIRTY THREE people (presumably all WHITE, though we will never know because the Jews have brushed it all under the carpet) were stabbed by a non-white IMMIGRANT, and he got SEVEN YEARS in prison for it. Unbelievable. The media are your enemy, white man.
How is the media the enemy. Maybe you don't believe the holocaust happened, but I've been to a concentration camp. I went to Dachau and it was the most awful place I've ever been to. As soon as I stepped in there I felt sick. The smell of a place like that never goes away you know. It still smells like burnt flesh. I stood in the place where they piled bodies waiting to be burned. I saw the facilities they were forced to use. They didn't treat them like humans. We saw videos that were shot in the concentration camps and pictures of the starved people. And no, they weren't all jews. Some were homosexuals. Some were political leaders. Some were transgender. Some were mentally retarded. But the jewish people were nearly wiped out. That monument to them is extremely powerful. It might not look like anything staring from the outside, but when you step between those stones and they are 8 -12 feet tall, you feel small and humble. That is the point of it. If they weren't straight lines of stones you would get lost....at night anyway. Once you step into it, you can't see the end of them. It's very inspiring. You can have conspiracies, but I'm a believer.
Renata,
I think you are a bit off the point here. Anonymous commented about his assumption only, and that's his point.
Regarding the concentration camps, I have been to Auschwitz and I know how it looks like and feels like. I felt sick and sorry for all those people who suffered there.
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