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| Rob and Bex, Stansted Airport, 6 in the morning |
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| Arrived in Berlin. View from our hostel in E Berlin. Looking West. |
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| Street scene of the one the major blvds. Piping is for the removal of ground water. Berlin was built on a marsh. |
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| Me in front of the Brandendburg Gate |
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| US Embassy. |
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| Another angle of the Tor, or gate. |
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| Berlin's Holocaust Memorial. Massive plot of land covered in concrete blocks that vary in size. |
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| Close up of a Socialist mural painted in the former Luftwaffe headquarters. |
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| Massive flock of crows |
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| Sachsenhausen Concentration camp perimeter wall |
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| Pirmary entrance and guard tower. |
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| Arbeit Macht Frei - Work makes you free. |
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| If any of the prisoners stepped on the gravel portion, they were immediately shot. |
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| Large rectangular plots are the sites of the housing barracks. |
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| Large concrete roller, pulled by hand to flatten ground after roll call. |
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| Two remaining barracks built from the bits and pieces from others. The camp was mostly raized after the soviets took possession of it. |
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| Cramped interior of a barrack. It was common for three people to sleep in each bed space. |
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| Shower stalls |
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| Shooting pit. |
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| Remains of the ovens |
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| Foundations of the gas chambers. prisoners would be herded into the room on the left, disrobed, then went up the steps into the gas chamber. |
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| Building where medical "experiments" where performed |
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| operating table. Lauren later saw some italian tourist lay down on it. |
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| Administration building used by the Nazis to plan the extermination |
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| dinner atop the Berlin TV tower. |
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| charlotte strauss palace |
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| Jewish Museum |
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| Floor littered with 10,000 machined faces |
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| Berlines love their Christmas markets. Almost every public square had them. |
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| Alchohol and sausage flowed |
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| Portion of the Berlin walled preserved for artistic purposes |
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| The bridge in the background was used for USA/USSR prisoner transfers during the cold war |
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| lonely Vader |
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| View from the reichstag |
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| Greek temple from Pergamom, now present day Turkey. |
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| detail of the frieze that encased the temple. |
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| Entrance to a roman Market |
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| close up of a snowflake. |
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| Interior of the a Nuke bunker. Capacity of 3k people. |
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| Another segment of the wall. |
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| Swiss breakfast. Egg over a large hashbrown |
