After a few hour drive we arrived in berlin - city of four million. Our first impression was a city rebuilt. Plenty of cranes and scaffolding everywhere, lots of new modern buildings in combination with huge blocks of apartments. The city tour took us past remnants of the Berlin Wall (191 miles long!) which fell 25 years ago, check point Charlie, Brandenburg gate, the reichstag and the site of the mass nazi book burning in 1933 in front of the university. We passed the site of a huge memorial to the holocaust - an eerie mass of cement blocks of various heights and levels. One felt a sense of disorientation and loss as you walk among the site.
In the afternoon we visited the jewish museum. The architecture was striking and powerful. Sadly the years 1933-45 was summarized in a single panel...
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