I swung by the Reichstag to try to get into the dome but my email request for a reservation didn't go through so ill try again tomorrow :(. But the good news is that I saw the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, the Topography of Terror and the Jewish Museum Berlin. Oh my goodness. I didnt chuckle. It was painfully sad. Some were sickeningly vivid. For example, the tower of terror which is a cement rectangular tower with a slit of light coming through from the street above feels so lonely and cold. The life size pictures of SS police interrogating German men at gunpoint hanging right next to the Berlin Wall is terrifying. The garden of exile was similar to the monument to murdered Jews because of the tall cement structures and even more disorienting as the cement planters are intentionally built on a slight slant. Sensory overload in the afternoon!
I'm marinating in my day and trying to decide if I want to take the third reich tour. I feel like I've focused on that a lot and don't want too too much more. But history does nothing if not teach...and so, in conclusion...feeling words of the day: grateful for this experience and my freedoms, exhausted;). Ill catch ya later fishy fish.
A 'ghost station' where the eastern government rented tracks to the west but kept guards stationed to insure no shady business
How could a great nation fall so far into hatred and darkness? We need to remain vigilent against that tendency.
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I need to see Berlin to get a better understanding of how far and how we could fall.
It's a really interesting place. The uprising of hitler seemed to be very economically connected. Also the German people were looking to boost their esteem after WW 1. The extremely Conservative party gave Hitler his leadership. The Jews got targeted for racial as well as religious reasons. Thank G-d we have separation of church and state
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