Saturday, December 8, 2012

Auchtung! Photos of Berlin

Rob and Bex, Stansted Airport, 6 in the morning
Arrived in Berlin. View from our hostel in E Berlin. Looking West.

Street scene of the one the major blvds. Piping is for the removal of ground water.  Berlin was built on a marsh.

Me in front of the Brandendburg Gate

US Embassy.

Another angle of the Tor, or gate. 


Berlin's Holocaust Memorial. Massive plot of land covered in concrete blocks that vary in size.


Close up of a Socialist mural painted in the former Luftwaffe headquarters. 

Massive flock of crows

Sachsenhausen Concentration camp perimeter wall

Pirmary entrance and guard tower.

Arbeit Macht Frei - Work makes you free.

If any of the prisoners stepped on the gravel portion, they were immediately shot.

Large rectangular plots are the sites of the housing barracks.

Large concrete roller, pulled by hand to flatten ground after roll call.


Two remaining barracks built from the bits and pieces from others. The camp was mostly raized after the soviets took possession of it. 

Cramped interior of a barrack. It was common for three people to sleep in each bed space.



Shower stalls


Shooting pit. 

Remains of the ovens
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.

Building where medical "experiments" where performed

operating table. Lauren later saw some italian tourist lay down on it. 


Administration building used by the Nazis to plan the extermination

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dinner atop the Berlin TV  tower. 



charlotte strauss palace

Jewish Museum


Floor littered with 10,000 machined faces


Berlines love their Christmas markets. Almost every public square had them.
Alchohol and sausage flowed


Portion of the Berlin walled preserved for artistic purposes



The bridge in the background was used for USA/USSR prisoner transfers during the cold war


lonely Vader


View from the reichstag



Greek temple from Pergamom, now present day Turkey.

detail of the frieze that encased the temple.

Entrance to a roman Market


close up of a snowflake.


Interior of the a Nuke bunker. Capacity of 3k people. 


Another segment of the wall.



Swiss breakfast. Egg over a large hashbrown 

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