
Anhalter Bahnof
What's left after WWII bombings of the largest train station in Germany. A small portion of the front entrance.

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Olympic Stadium
Entrance into Olympic Stadium.

Olympic Stadium
Entrance into Olympic Stadium.

Lis Stadium
Alissa in front of Olympic Stadium. Built for the 1936 Olympics which became a propaganda coup for the Nazi regime.

Soccer Field
The beautiful soccer field. The torch was lit in the gap of the stadium, with the tower holding the Olympic Bell behind.

Lis Soccer Field
The main stadium with track and field. The stadium was remodeled for the 2006 World Cup Finals and Championship game.

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Olympic Pool and diving platform with 10500 people watching
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The Pool and Platform and torch at the back of the pool
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Original Diving Platform
What's left after WWII bombings of the largest train station in Germany. A small portion of the front entrance.

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Us Olympic Bell
The Original Olympic Bell which was atop the tower behind us. Swatizckas remain on the bell as seen in next pics.

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Jesse Owens Wall
Engraving Jesse Owens. The black man defied Hitler's view of the Arayan race, and infamously "snubbed" him after he won.

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Lis Torch
Where the torch was lit, with soccer field behind it.

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Hitlers viewing and speaking platform under the tower.
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Carrying of the torch
The carrying of the olympic torch into the stadium in between the Nazis.

Hitler Marching
Hitler marching into the Stadium. We were standing where he is on the pic.

Hitler Marching
Hitler marching into the Stadium. We were standing where he is on the pic.

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Schloss Charlottenburg
Schloss Charlottenburg. A summer palace built in late 17th century for the wife of the Elector of Prussia.

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Was severely damaged by WWII bombing and then by East German authorities, but rebuilt in the 60s.

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Schloss Charlettenburg 2
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TV Tower night
TV tower, we went to the top to view the city.

The Wall
Our first glimpse of the wall at Postdamer Platz.

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Cobblestone
Cobbelstone path winds throughout Berlin marking where the wall once was.

Chris at the Wall
The Wall was built right across what was Berlin's liveliest cosmopolitan square (Postdamer Platz).

Ironic
Ironic? The cobblestone path leading through Starbucks was where the wall once stood. Hard to see at Lis's feet.

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Modern Building at Postdamer Platz
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Lis Sony Center
The Sony Center at Postdamer Platz

Bradenburg Gate Night
The Brandenburg Gate built in 1791. The chariot on top survived Napoleon, but was destroyed by WWII.

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The Chariot
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Soviet War Memorial Me
Soviet War Memorial in memory of +20,000 Soviets who died in fight for Berlin. (21 million Soviets died in WWII!!)

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Soviet War Memorial in memory of +20,000 Soviets who died in fight for Berlin. (21 million Soviets died in WWII!!)

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Original tank was one of first to roll into Berlin.

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Bebelplatz
At the Bebelplatz where in 1933, the Nazis held the book burning ceremony beginning with the works of Karl Marx.

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Berliner Dom
Berliner Dom. The largest Protestant Church in Germany.

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Lis atop Berliner Dom
From atop the Berliner Dom, looking at the TV Tower and town hall to the right.

Checkpoint Charlie
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Checkpoint Charlie is the world-famous crossing point where American and Soviet tank crews eyeballed each other.

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Checkpoint Charlie Museuem. A woman layed inside (across) the suitcases above Lis's head to cross the border!

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Child Hoist
Amazing to see the ways they tried to cross!

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Berlin's greatest monuments built of pure choclate.

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Beavis
Note the nice drawing of Beavis next to me. Most of the famous paintings have been ruined by such grafiti.

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The Wall East Side Gallery
The East Side Gallery, where famous artists came and "grafitied" the wall. The longest intact portion of the wall today.

Lis East Side Gallery
Amazingly unpreserved, anyone can walk up to it with a marker and go at it. Many myspace adds were seen at various spots

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Us Reichstag
An infamous WWII painting shows the building with the Soviet Flag flying high above.

Chris Reichstag
The Reichstag. Famous Parliment building burnt by the Nazis in '33, and taken by the Soviets in 1945.

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View of Postdamer Platz (Sony Center)
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Girl's Ass or Modern Art
As I waited outside the Modern Art Museum trying to recooperate, I saw some "Modern Art" myself. ( A woman's ass)

Musuem Isalnd
One of the museums on Museum Island.

Lis on Pergamonian Altar
The altar was massive,with a "friez" around it showing the struggle of the gods

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Babylonian Gate
Scale hard to capture. Part of the mighty Ishtar Gate from Babylon.

Babylonian Wall
The whole processional way up to the gate was reconstructed in the museum,with these original glazed brick massive walls

Pergamon Musuem
In front of the Pergamon Museum built to house the reconstructed 2nd Century BC altar from the Greek City of Pergamon.

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Hollow Tooth
The "Hollow Tooth" one of Berlin's great monumental church pre-war,and what's left of it as it was after WWII bombings.

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KaDeWe
KaDeWe the most famous shopping center in Berlin, had all the ritzy stores, Alissa loved it,but thankfully bouhgt notin!