A Berlin Bear in Hauptbahnhof
Hauptbahnhof
The Ampleman- The mascot of East Berlin
TV Tower
Park under TV Tower- Completely overrun by gypsy beggars.
Marienkirche
Berliner Dom
Museum Island
Lustgarten
Schlossbrücke
Organ Grinder on Schlossbrücke
Berlin Man Hole Cover
Zeughaus (The Old Arsenal) is the oldest building on Unter Den Linden
Unter Den Linden
Neue Wache (The New Guard House) was built in 1816, its now a memorial to the victims of fascism.
Mother with her Dead Son is the sculpture inside Neue Wache. There is a hole cut in the ceiling that exposes the sculpture to the elements. Under the sculpture there is a Nazi soldier and a concentration camp victim.
Bebelplatz- the site of the book burning by the Nazis in 1933
Sculpture on the top of the Opera House
Roof of the Opera
Humbolt University
St Hedwig's Cathederal (left) and the building used as the bank in Run Lola Run (right) on the Bebelplatz
St. Hedwig's Cathederal
St Hedwig's Cathederal
39 Behrenstrasse- The father's bank in Run Lola Run
"That was only a prelude; where they burn books, they ultimately burn people." Heinrich Heine 1823. Over a century before Hitler came into power,
The memorial is a room of empty book shelves with enough room for 20,000 books. The number of books that were burned in the square.
Humbolt University's library is where the 20,000 books that were burned in the square were acquired from. Now they have a book sale every day, rain or shine, to atone for their role.
Berlin Streets
Currywurst- The best of Berlin street food.
Checkpoint Charlie
Reconstruction of the guard shack.
Pieces of the Berlin Wall
Berlin Wall and Soviet Star
Print of the famous painting on the Berlin Wall: Leonid Brezhnev kissing Erich Honecker
Public art in Berlin.
Statue in Berlin
Potsdamer Platz
Sony Center
Lego Giraffe in the Sony Center
Pieces of the Berlin Wall in Potsdamer Platz
Rooftop Garden
Eberstrasse looking toward Brandenburg Gate
Holocaust Memorial
Brandenburg Gate
Brandenburg Gate and the Reichstag
The Reichstag
Me at the Reichstag
Indians and Starbucks in Berlin? Wat.
Russian Embassy
Kindl Beer
Brandenburg Gate at Sunset
Französische Strasse
Fredrichswerdersche Church
Eggs
Gnome Collection
Berlin Courtyard
Retro second-hand store
Berlin Street Art
Church
Best Mexican food in Europe. Made by real Mexicans.
Crazy person by the Mexican restaurant playing with fire
Crazy Person
Streets of Berlin
Sign on a corner market in East Berlin
Street Art
Concentration Camp Memorial
Berlin Park
Weird Sculpture in Antique Shop
Jewish Museum
Garden of Exile and Emigration at the Jewish Museum
Colorful Berliner
Victory a.k.a. Goldelse
Siegessäule- Built to mark the victory in Prusso-Danish War of 1864
Strasse Des 17 Juni toward the Brandenburg Gate
Tiergarten (The Animal Garden)
Tiergarten
Streets near the Embassies
A Berlin Bear
Reichpietschufer
Kluck Strasse
Neue Nationalgalerie
Bendlerblock- Headquarters of the Wehrmcht (German Army) where the attempted assassination of Hitler was Planned
Bendlerblock
Bendler Block Courtyard where Claus Graf von Stauffenberg and his co-conspirators were executed.
Bendlerbock Courtyard
Here Died For Germany On July the 20th, 1944 Colonel General Ludwig Beck General of Infantry Friedrich Olbricht Colonel Claus Graf Schenk von Stauffenberg Colonel Albrecht Ritter Mertz von Quirnheim Senior Lieutenant Werner von Haeften
Plaque in the courtyard
Sculpture in the courtyard
Inscription on entrance to the courtyard.
United Arab Emirates Embassy
Egyptian Embassy
Italian Embassy
Japanese Embassy
Cherry Tree in the Japanese Embassy
Arabic Embassy
Mexican Embassy
Syrian Embassy
Nordic Embassy
All the Nordic Embassies are in one complex. Each of the embassies are made out of material from their country.
Finland Embassy
Danish Embassy (front left), Iceland Embassy (back left), Norwegian Embassy (back right)
Norwegian Embassy (left), Swedish Embassy (back right), Finnish Embassy (front right)
Map of the embassies.
WZB- Social Science and Research
WZB- Wissenschaftszentrum a.k.a. Science Centre
Berlin Sunset
This parking lot is the location of Hitler's bunker. The buildings was upscale Soviet Block housing.
Hitler's Bunker- Berliners all take their dogs here to poop
Berlin Architecture
Banksy?
Banksy
The building is now the German Finance Ministry (tax office). It was formerly the House of Ministries during Communist times. During WWII it was constructed and operated as the Reich Air Ministry Building.
Bullet holes from WWII in the Reichsluftfahrtministerium
Communist Propaganda from the building's time as the Soviet "House of Ministries"
more of the Communist mural
Reichsluftfahrtministerium
The longest piece of the Berlin wall that still stands.
Deutscher Dom- Nearly identical to the French church (Französischer Dom) on the opposite side of the square.
The Konzerthaus and the Französischer Dom on Gendarmen Market
Me in front of the Konzerthaus.
Französischer Dom with the Deutscher Dom behind it.
German Soda- It tastes like a mix of Coke and Orange Crush
Me and my Berlin host.
Leaving from Hauptbahnhof
Reichstag (left) and the Sony Center (right) from the train
Museum Island and the TV Tower
Berlin from the train.
