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Showing posts with label Germany. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Germany. Show all posts

15 January 2012

Charlottenburg Palace and Museum Island

Charlottenburg Palace

More of the palace grounds
 
 National Gallery of Art; one of the museums on Museum Island

The S-bahn passing through the Island

14 January 2012

A day of garten-ing

 Volksgarten, the people's park

Random architecture next to a gas station

 Tiergarten, or the animal garden; also the largest garden in Berlin

The Brandenburg Gate at dusk

13 January 2012

Sachsenhausen Memorial

A boot testing path; prisoners were forced to test different types of boots for quality by running in then for 12 hours.  The boots they were given would be either 2 sizes too small or too large.

 A washroom designed for 140 prisoners, but shared each morning by 400

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A view of the camp and the path that leads towards the infirmary

12 January 2012

East Side Gallery and Kollowitz Platz

 The U-Bahn heading from Warschauer Str. to Ostkreuz

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Berlin Wall; "You have learnt what freedom is and will never forget"

Berlin Wall; German communist politician Erich Honecker kissing Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev

Graffitied side of the Berlin Wall

11 January 2012

Berlin tour on a cloudy day

 The German Cathedral, located in the Gendarmenmarkt

 The Konzerthaus; a German theatre, also located in the Gendarmenmarkt

Neue Wache; a Memorial to the Victims of Fascism and Militarism, burried here are the remains of an unknown German Soldier and a concentration camp victim

The Berlin Cathedral and TV Tower