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"Gedenkstätte Grosse Hamburger Strasse." This is a quiet wooded park on the site of what had been a major cemetery for Berlin's Jewish community. The sculptural memorial is dedicated to the 55,000 Jews deported to concentration camps from this site in 1943. Designed by Will Lammert (1892-1957).
Before the Nazi Era, Berlin had a famously large and flourishing Jewish community. The oldest Jewish cemetery in Berlin was on this street, and several other significant institutions were nearby: the "New" Synagogue, several schools, a home for the elderly. During the years of WWII, the cemetery was entirely desecrated, and the old-people's home served as the center for detaining and deporting the remaining Jews of the city. Leave a Comment
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Not far from Brandenburg Gate, on the Juni 17 street. The memorial was built after WWII by architect Sergievsky and sculptors Kerbel and Zigal. I was really surprised to see Soviet signs in the city of Berlin because there were a lot of TV news in Russian television that showed how many of Soviet symbols were destroyed in Eastern Europe. I don’t think about the future of this memorial. It is and it’s a memory of WWII. Leave a Comment
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Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906-1945) was one of the "non-conforming" pastors imprisoned for refusing to "toe the line" of German religious policy in the Nazi era. He was also one of the greatest theologians of the 20th century, a pioneer of "social-based" theology and an important influence upon Martin Luther King Jr., among others.
Bonhoeffer was implicated in the 1944 plot to assassinate Hitler, and in 1945 he was executed at Buchenwald. After the war, Bonhoeffer's body - and those of other conspirators - was re-interred in central Berlin's Dorotheenstädtischer cemetery. Leave a Comment
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Admiring its architecture.
As Soviet tourists we could not leave the city without visiting Treptow Park - the memorial to the Soviet soldiers and officers who fell during the battles in and around Berlin in 1945.
It was very impressive to see all those monuments and tombs of the fallen soldiers and officers. Leave a Comment
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see bookshelves containing no books!!!
You can look thgrough at the centre of the square - a glass panel through which can be seen a room lined with empty, white bookshelves.
It was 10th May 1933 Bucherverbrennung (book burning), a propaganda event orchestrated by Hitler. The Nazis held their first official book burning there, incinerating works of authors who were on the anti-Nazi "index". Leave a Comment
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from 1960 till 1990 this building had the above inscription.
After the GDR era, they changed the words (cause the Westerners found it too
pro-socialist).
They also put in this statue of Kaethe Kollwitz, an artist who lived till 1945
and always expressed political, pacifistic views in her work.
The original of this statue is only a few centimeters high - many people say
that with this new enlargement it lost it's effect, and is doing the artist
wrong. Leave a Comment
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Also known as Soviet Memorial in English, the memorial is flanked by the first two Russian tanks (No 200 and No 300) to enter Berlin in 1945. Wow!!! When I shot pictures with the No 300 tank, I had no idea that he had such a glorious history. :-)
The reddish marble is said to have come from Hitler's Neue Reichskanzlei (New Chancellery). Leave a Comment
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Russian World War 2 Memorial in Berlin, the thing that i loved so much about this place was the statues/fountains and architecture, very western european. Leave a Comment
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the city is full with monuments to human stupidity and it's self destruction un controled desire.
at list it pays the artists bills...
it's the 'Neue Wache' (guard house).
located on the street 'Unter den Linden' (berlin's most beautiful one. the Neue Wache was built by Schinkel (famous architect, who's done a lot in berlin + area), in 1818. from 1931 on, it was used as a memorial for fallen soldiers in WW I, from the GDR for victims of fashism and militarism.
1993 they put in the enlarged sculpture of Kaethe Kollwitz (famous artist). it was highly discussed that they changed the inscripts (after the fall of the wall) and that they enlarged this originally very small sculpture. Leave a Comment
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Treptower Park sounds interesting in the guide and I tried to cover that as well. It's where the largest Soviet Monument erects, a grave site for thousands of Soviet soldiers who died in the war against Hitler. On top of the tomb at the far end of the park is a huge statue of a valiant, square-jawed Soviet soldier, clasping a child in one arm, and with the other smashing a swastika.
I hope this much of writings has not already bored you. But really Berlin, the capital of unified Germany, offers many interesting sites - historical and modern. Hundreds of cranes amid them, almost nowhere will stay the same. You oughtta be on your way there soon to see it rejuvenate.
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