Inside the modern glass dome atop the Reichstag.
The Reichstag.
Grave markers tossed aside when a cemetery was destroyed to widen the death zone for the Berlin Wall near Bernauer Strasse.
Berlin Wall — East Side Gallery 2001.
Berlin Wall — East Side Gallery 2001.
Berlin Wall — East Side Gallery 2001.
Berlin Wall — East Side Gallery 2001.
Berlin Wall — East Side Gallery 2001.
Berlin Wall — East Side Gallery 2001.
Holocaust memorial in the Jewish cemetery.
Monument to one of the few successful attempts to stand up to the Nazis. A group of German women, married to Jewish men, successfully protested until their husbands were returned to them.
Street festival on Berlin’s Kurfürstendamm, better known as the Ku’damm.
A socialist mural on an outside wall of what was the Luftwaffe headquarters during World War II, the House of Ministries during the Communist East German regime, and today is the Ministry of Finance (2001).
A socialist mural on an outside wall of what was the Luftwaffe headquarters during World War II, the House of Ministries during the Communist East German regime, and today is the Ministry of Finance (2001).
Kathe Kollwitz lived from 1867 to 1945. Her sculpture Mother with her Dead Son” is the centerpiece of a memorial to the victims of war and tyranny at the Neue Wache on the Unter den Liden.
Otto Weidt ran his broom and brush factory in this alley in Rosenthaler Strasse. Among his customers was the Wehrmacht, which allowed him to have his business classified as vital to the war effort. Among his employees were 30 Jews, mostly blind. He managed to protect them until May 1943, when most were deported to the death camps. Only a few survived.
Memorial at the Bendlerbloc to the unsuccessful attempt to kill Hitler by Col. Claus Schenk von Stauffenberg. the Bendlerblock has a good museum to the German resistance movement.
The Pergamon Altar in Berlin’s Pergamon Museum, which was built specifically to house this and other massive archeological artifacts brought to Berlin from the Middle East.
Ruins of the Anhalter train station just southeast of Potsdamer Platz.
The East German Ministry for State Security, the Stasi, was a sprawling complex on Normannenstrasse that employed 100,000 people in East Berlin.
Statues of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, the fathers of Communism, in the Marx-Engels Forum just east of the Spree River in the Mitte section of Berlin.
The main Jewish synagogue in Berlin. It was burned by the Nazis but beautifully restored in part.
The Rathaus Schöneberg, where President Kennedy delivered his “ich bin ein Berliner” speech in 1963.
Monument to Marxist leader Rosa Luxemburg along the Landwehr Canal. Following a failed revolution, she was captured by a paramilitary group, beaten and shot and her body dumped into the canal.
The Deutsche Bank tower at Potsdamer Platz, which the Berlin Wall once ran through.
