Visiting Berlin!

The Brandenburg Gate – a late 18th century neo-classical Prussian victory memorial  (to date four modern American Presidents have spoken in front of it).

Then (Nazi rally in 1930s)

On 9 November 1989!

Now

Reichstag building with glass dome designed by Lord Foster – present

Soviet soldier flies the ‘Hammer and Sickle’ USSR flag in May 1945

Berlin TV Tower – East German (GDR) symbol of prestige back in the 1960s

Then

Now

Bendlerblock – Army HQ & site of Valkyrie plotters HQ and their executions in Berlin in July 1944

Then

Now


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