Tuesday, June 23, 2015

Potsdamer Platz, Gedenkstãtte Deutscher Widerstand, Mauer Panorama, Topographie des Terrors, Checkpoint Charlie, Gendarmenmarkt

 

 Potsdamer Platz



The new glass-and-steel Sony Center with a tent-like roof.



Potsdamer Platz, rebuilt after having been split in two by The Wall for many years.








Gedenkstãtte Deutscher Widerstand



The Bendlerblock building where the ill-fated assassination attempt on Hitler on 20 July 1944 had been planned.




Mauer Panorama



Art work by Yadegar Asisi  -  photographic panorama 15 X 60 meter  -  impression of the death strip and everyday life along the wall back in the 1980's







Topographie des Terrors

 

Topograhpy of terror - an indoor and outdoor museum on the the site of Nazi buildings during the Nazi regime - like the headquarters of the Gestapo and the SS.
 


Colourful Trabants outside the Trabi Museum.



Taking a break  -  curry wurst and beer!


Checkpoint Charlie


What used to be the best-known border crossing between East and West Berlin.    (Today just very very irritatingly touristy!)

 




Gendarmenmarkt 


Beautiful cobblestone square surrounded by the Konzerthaus and the French and German Cathedrals.


  

 

NEXT:   Holocaust Memorial, Brandenburger Tor, Bootrit op Spree, Museumsinsel, DDR Museum 

 

 

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