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Our Trip to Germany - Page Five |
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We spent an afternoon walking around the neighborhood of Kreuzberg in Berlin. Formerly a Jewish neighborhood, Kreuzberg is now known largely as an immigrant area - see the proliferation (left) of satellite dishes in apartment balconies.
Below: a visit to a 'men's club' - mostly immigrants (some of them second- and third-generation Turks), spending their afternoons playing cards and dominoes. Although our group was ok to bring women in, apparently. |
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There are bronze bricks, called 'tripping stones' embedded in the sidewalks. They commemorate the former Jewish residents (and sometimes non-Jews as well) who were deported from their homes. |
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Below: Berlin graffiti |
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The Broken Chain sculpture, and behind it the Kaiser Wilhelm Commemorative Church, known by Berliners as the �Lipstick and Compact.� |
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The Soviet War Memorial, below, is right by the Brandenburg Gate, and is the final resting place for more than 2,500 Soviet soldiers who died in World War II fighting against Nazi Germany. The monument is constructed from the artifacts of war. It is flanked by two T-34 tanks, said to be the first to reach Berlin. The curved structure is created from marble taken from Hitler's Chancellery. At the center is a bronze statue of a Soviet solder holding a child in one hand and a sword smashing a Nazi swastika in the other. The stones from Hitler's Chancellery are engraved with the Soviet sickle-and-hammer design along with quotes from Stalin. The monument was guarded around the clock by the Red Army until German reunification. |
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Us, at the Brandenburg Gate, on our way with Rachael to see the Live 8 Concert.
Below: some of the capitalist money-grabbing paraphenalia that were on sale by the Live 8 Concert.
Hey, wait a minute ... |
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You can just make out Annie Lennox on the video screen in the center. There were some 200,000 people standing in front of us, to be fair.
Below is the Brandenburg Gate, decked out with the slogan "Your Voice Against Poverty." |
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Leslie and Rachael, on our night out in East Berlin |
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On to our Final Page of Germany photos
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Back to our Around the World Page |
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