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Actually taken the night before, but that doesn't mean it gets its own gallery.
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The Soviets only left part of the palace standing, because someone did something nice for communism there once. They built this building around it.
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Germany could only honor its dead in the most general way: by lamenting the loss of a mother's son.
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This is right in the middle of a major square. It's up on one of those facades that's supposed to hide construction by looking like the building behind it, except...
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A memorial to all the books burned by the Nazis. It's impossible to stop people from standing on top of this thing, even though you can't see anything that way. I had meant to come back at night when it's illuminated underground, but it didn't happen.
A quote, which predates Nazism (and Germany, for that matter), saying that the burning of books will lead to the burning of people. That's so prophetic I almost think it gave Hitler the idea.
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Silly replica of Checkpoint Charlie.
A rare photograph of Charlie, the man Hitler assigned to watch the border after he built the Berlin Wall during the first World War.
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This parking lot used to be the bunker where Hitler killed himself. They've completely ignored the fact, and apparently it's a coincidence that the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe is just a block or two down the street.
Much better than Rue de Jean Jacques Rousseau.
The Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, commonly referred to as the Holocaust Memorial.
I absolutely love this place. It's not meant to be a symbol in any explicit or defined way, and there's no official interpretation.
I think it evokes feelings of the city all the dead could fill, and the geometry of it reflects the technological way they were treated.
It's also pretty disorienting, and when you're in the middle of it it looms over you.
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Two of Berlin's most iconic historical structures, and a smokestack.
She is actually staring down the French embassy. I can't imagine why the French tolerate it, but it's hilarious.
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This is the real Berlin. Sometimes the city feels a week old.
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CURRYWURST.
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No, I didn't get to pee on this.
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I had hoped this couch would rise up into the opening in the top of the globe, but I had no such luck.
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This is from the following morning. Also...