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 Fernsehturm & Marienkirche @ Alexanderplatz (Berlin Mitte) |
 Construction around the Hackesche Höfe |
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 A VW Käfer from a local toy shop |
 The reconstructed New Synagogue at the Oranienburger Straße |
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 The Museum Island |
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 New & old architecture (note the bullet holes in the old building) |
 The enormous Berlin Cathedral |
 ...next to the Altes Museum |
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 The former East-Berlin: Marx having a chill next to Engels, and some really weird little girl |
 Unter den Linden... |
 ...very grand... |
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 ...Russian Embassy... |
 ...towards... |
 ...the Brandenburger Gate (with left the new unimpressive US embassy) |
 Angela Merkel's residence locally known as 'The Washing Machine' |
 Too long of a queue in front of the Reichstag |
 ...Foster's 'crown' |
 The impressive Holocaust Memorial |
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 The mismatches at Potsdamer Platz |
 Yes, big and impressive.... |
 ...but just another mall, really... |
 Berlin has very little street ads, but if there are, then they are....big. |
 Spiderman was there too |
 Place where The Wall once stood... |
 ...now a busy road. |
 'Springtime for Hitler'...in German! |
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 Taking the U2 |
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 Some weird red-haired locals (they where not together) |
 Towards pleasant Prenzlauer Berg |
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 The weather was crap unfortunately... |
 ...but the houses colourful. |
 Theater on the Rosa-Luxemburg Platz |
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 Interesting Schaufensterpuppe |
 One side of the Alexanderplatz |
 Fernsehturm in the mist |
 Alexanderplatz Station |
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 Witzlebenstraße in western Charlottenburg |
 Art Gallery & Café KW (KunstWerke) |
 Berlin Hauptbahnhof, the new Main Station, the biggest in Europe |
 Charlottenburg S-bahn station at night |
 On our way to Potsdam we passed the infamous site where the Final Solution was planned |
 Schloss Sanssouci ('without cares') |
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 The grey weather didn't do it much justice |
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 Some other parts of Potsdam look like it had better times |
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 Back in Berlin at the Gedächtniskirche near the Kurfurstendamm |
 Passing the KW at night |
 The very interesting Karl-Marx-Allee with Slumdog Millionaire (dubbed) playing at the former communistic cinema |
 This is where the GDR held their communistic parades |
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 'Out of the crisis with Marx'...hmmm... |
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 As seen in Das Leben der Anderen |
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 A nice trompe-l'œil |
 Warschauer Straße |
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 1 mile strip of remaining peace of Wall |
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 Back to 'The West', to Kreuzberg |
 lots of interesting wall paintings around... |
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 Kreuzberg central park on a grey day |
 some Kneipe |
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 some local graphics... |
 ...and rather good comic book store! |
 more random Wall |
 East Bloc(s) |
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 nice shapes (Steiner?) |
 Rotes Rathaus (Town Hall) |
 Neptune chillin' at the Alexanderplatz |
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