I had a pretty nice nights sleep on the chair in our room! When I woke up we got dressed, ate breakfast then met our tour guide down in the lobby. Our tour guide was great! He spoke great English, chill, and was very knowledgable. Instead of driving from location to loctation on our tour we walked around. Our guide taught us all about the Berlin Wall and WWII. We walked to Checkpoint Charlie, which was one of the three checkpoints that people from West Berlin and foreigners could enter into East Berlin. The Berlin Wall was setup overnight, and was up for over twenty-five years. When it was setup overnight it wasn't clean looking, it was all the guards could get their hands on like a bus and barricades and guards. West Berlin was run by the U.S.A. and the other allies and the east side was run by the Soviet Union.
Another place we visited was the Brandenburg Gate built by a Prussian Emperor as a victory gate and entrance to his palace. When the Berlin Wall was up the gate was in no mans land and was a symbol of the iron curtain, the divide between the east and west. This month they are having the Europe Soccer Cup taking place in Berlin. There was a lot of things going on around this event near the Brandenburg Gate when we were there today.
After our tour we walked back to the Holocaust Memorial/Museum and walked through it looking at photos of the history of the Holocaust and photos of Auchwitz, and reading quotes and life stories from the Jews that were killed by the Nazis. The Memorial was quite modern looking, like grey rectangles varying in size. The chemical that the government chose to coat the stones with which is graffiti resistant and gives a teary affect while it rains, is made by the same company that produced the gas for the Holocaust. This upset many people.
When we were finished with the Memorial we walked back to the hotel and hopped on some e-bikes! On the e-bikes we peddled to near where we were yesterday then a large part of the Berlin Wall called the East Side Gallery which was covered in murals. We biked all along there taking pictures with the wall. After the wall we biked back to the Berlin Dome, where we were yesterday. At the Berlin Dome we listened to the organs and a priest speaking in German. It was beautiful both the sound and the Dome! Afterwards we ate dinner at a restaurant with swanky cool chairs. On the way back we stopped by the Berlin Mall before biking back to thee hotel and doing our blog.
This area is where Hitler's bunker was and is now a parking lot and under hear is where he committed suicide rather than be paraded around in a cage as Stalin had threatened.
Another place we visited was the Brandenburg Gate built by a Prussian Emperor as a victory gate and entrance to his palace. When the Berlin Wall was up the gate was in no mans land and was a symbol of the iron curtain, the divide between the east and west. This month they are having the Europe Soccer Cup taking place in Berlin. There was a lot of things going on around this event near the Brandenburg Gate when we were there today.
After our tour we walked back to the Holocaust Memorial/Museum and walked through it looking at photos of the history of the Holocaust and photos of Auchwitz, and reading quotes and life stories from the Jews that were killed by the Nazis. The Memorial was quite modern looking, like grey rectangles varying in size. The chemical that the government chose to coat the stones with which is graffiti resistant and gives a teary affect while it rains, is made by the same company that produced the gas for the Holocaust. This upset many people.
When we were finished with the Memorial we walked back to the hotel and hopped on some e-bikes! On the e-bikes we peddled to near where we were yesterday then a large part of the Berlin Wall called the East Side Gallery which was covered in murals. We biked all along there taking pictures with the wall. After the wall we biked back to the Berlin Dome, where we were yesterday. At the Berlin Dome we listened to the organs and a priest speaking in German. It was beautiful both the sound and the Dome! Afterwards we ate dinner at a restaurant with swanky cool chairs. On the way back we stopped by the Berlin Mall before biking back to thee hotel and doing our blog.
Profile of this man below that tried to assassinate Hitler in this spot but it was a failed attempt
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