Berlin

foundation of a building where they had a small gas chamber and "doctors office" that was really another execution area.

memorial

Execution area

work brings freedom

A Concentration Camp near Berlin. It has a memorial built in 1961 (I'm pretty sure). It was an

all male work camp. They also sent Soviet soldiers there to be killed.

Interesting fact:

The German soldiers stationed by the camp were only served potatoes that had been shaped into a perfect spheer. They had a special name in German along the lines of "perfect for the mouth". This meant that one potato = one mouthful and the rest else was thrown away.
A few feet away thousands were starving.

Amazing.

All of the students

people from the US

Famouse building. Not really sure what it is but the dome is supposed to be pretty neat inside.
We were going to go in but it was closed.

Happy Halloween!

Sadly they don't celebrate Halloween here. But it's in my heart ;)

Berlin

We waited in a bloody long line to get in this building. On the top is a big glass dome that you can go into. I think that this is where they have political debates. It's free and open to the public. The original dome was destroyed so they built this glass one to reprisent political transparency. The bigg mirrored thing in the middle collects rain water and the whole thing acts as a heater/cooler/ventalation. It's "green".

Berlin

Thats my dark blue converse on the left

The place where the wall was has been marked in different colored stone. In some places it's now a bike path :)
And the sign at Checkpoint Charley. We went through a museum about it. Very interesting. All the stuff that happend, what people did to cross, amazing stories.

Ok. Not about Berlin.

You know people really wear wooden shoes here? I didn't think they would. It's not like kids wear them to school, but I do see people around town in them. It's probably because I'm in a rural area.

And something else that's true; The basic meal is: Potatoes (boiled), meat, vegitables (not normal fresh veggies, it's stuff like green beens, brussel sprouts, red cabbage, coliflower, etc) . That is what you eat probably around 85% of the time.

The foods not bad, just different.

Berlin, The Wall

The Wall. To me the most impressive thing in Berlin. Really amazing. Amazing in a tragic but fasinating way. Well, these are pictures of the intact bit. There are murals all over it. My favorite was this last. Many small people who in many small places do many small things that can alter the face of the world.

And in every suvineir shop you can buy chunks of the rubbel. I didn't. It felt kinda weird.

I don't know. The whole thing really made an impression.

Berlin

The Holocaust memorial. Need I say more?