Day 13--Thursday 5 Jul 2012

We left early on the bus for Berlin. It was a 4 hour drive.

Upon arrival we started our tour, visiting both East and West Berlin.

This was our bus from Copenhagen to Lubeck, on the ferry and in Berlin

Little communities down between the freeways

old original lamp post

The ground water is so high they have to pump it away in order

 to do construction (pink pipe in picture)

The Holocaust memorial.  It consists of 4.7 acres covered with 2, 7011 concrete slabs.
Under ground there is a display and historial information

The Brandenburg Gate. Built as a Triumphal Arch and the only remaining
gate through which Berlin was entered. When the Nazis assended to power
they used it as a party symbol.

The area around the gate featured most prominently in the media coverage of
the opening of the Berlin wall in 1989

Government Building where all the prominant dignitaries come.

One of the last standing, original apartment building.

The reinforcement steel left from the Berlin Wall after souvenier hunters
 took pieces of the wall

The wal was built in August of 1961 completely cutting of
West Berlin from surrounding East Germany and Berlin

The barrier included guard towers placed along concret walls

Circumscribed an area known as the death strip or no mans land.

A memorial of some of those who tried to cross "No Man's land"

There were three check points this was checkpoint "C"

best known as checkpoint Charlie.

Soviet and American tanks briefly faced each other at

this location during the Berlin crises of 1961.

There are markers throughout the city where the wall

originally stood.