Pictures of Berlin

Here are some of the pictures that i took. Of course I am not in any of them b/c I went all by myself but BELIEVE ME!!!!! It was I that was taking the pictures;) hehe.



This is a palace that was on the other side of the city but I went there anyway...in the summer the gardens would have been spectacular...amazing place for you to go to elaine...but now in the winter nothing really special....but the picture turned out pretty neat did it not?



And now you have a sideways view of a bombed church...I think the most interesting thing that I saw and really the only thing that shows that the city had once been basically completely destroyed during the war. That is why it's not really a beautiful city and more a history city b/c most things are new.



This is a drawing from the Berlin wall. It is of the Tabi(???can't really remember the name) car breaking through the wall. When the wall was up the Eastern "controllers" wanted to make a car similar to the Bettle Bug that the Westerners had so they created this car. But it turned out that the demand was very high for out outside of the eastern part so they exported more then made for the easterners so they had to wait up to 15 years to get one if they had enough money to buy one.




I really tried to get a good picture of this but I didn't want to look like a tourist b/c it wasn't a tourist area...It is of Karl Marx Allee. I am sure that everyone knows that with communism they try to make all people equal and therefore they want them to live in similar houses. With communism comes very wide roads and apartment buildings that look all the same. Well this road had a parking lot in the middle it was so wide and the apartments were all the same. I found out though that it wasn't so much for everyone to be equal but just b/c they had mass housing and material shortage so they needed to build fast and cheap. Interesting hey?




Again the East Side Gallery Berlin wall...pretty self explanatory I think.



Sideway view of the Holocaust memorial. It was many different sizes of concrete blocks organized in these rows and as you walked in them you went lower and lower. I really wanted to read about the meaning of it but the information area wasn't open and I think they only let people in on Sunday.



A picture of Brandenburd gate when the wall was up around it. Brandenburg gate is the main toursit attraction and really the gate that divides east and west berlin. Did you know that they built the wall in basically one night? One day everyone can pass freely and work on other side and then the next nobody could pass...it was a temporary wall at first but then became very permanent. It took 6 years before they let the westerners cross to see family but easterners not....they had watch towers and would shoot people or jailed them if they tried. And this went on until 1989....we were all alive then and this is one of the most developed, richest countries in the world.




Brandenburg gate.



The was a memorial for the Jews killed during the war. They took the remains of one Jew from a concentration camp and buried them here. It was a closed off room/building that was formed like a temple. It was dark inside except for a hole right above the figure where light shine in.