Category: Berlin
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Berlin — A Great City for Art
Several years ago I decided I would stop taking photos when I traveled, or at best, take very few. It started on a trip to Versailles. We were going through the palace looking at things, and most of the time a young woman was traveling through at about the same speed as we were. Sometimes…
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The Remains of the Berlin Wall
And then of course, there is the Berlin Wall. I found it interesting that unlike WW II and the Holocaust, memories of the Berlin Wall and the brutality of the East German regime seems to have faded, except as tourist attractions. One of the main ones is Checkpoint Charlie, the famous gateway to East Berlin from West…
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Confronting WW II and the Holocaust in Berlin
We had originally decided to go to Berlin because we had heard that it was a great city (especially when it came to the arts and street art), and we even rescheduled our trip to be there in early October, despite the fact that it would be starting to get really cold, in order to see…