When I first set me eyes on Berlin as a place to visit I used Google to find places to visit. I set my eyes on the Berlin Unterwelten, Allied Museum, and the Berlin Wall Memorial. However plans do change and I only ended up visiting the Allied Museum, which is alright because I still had some unexpected visits to two other places in Berlin.
The Allied Museum was pretty interesting as it showed Berlin's history after World War II. It was pretty amazing to see what was going on in Berlin, since in school we only learn that it was divided and we had to air drop in food. It was really so much more than that, radio stations were set up, schools, trying to reignite culture in Germany. Once the roads into East Germany were closed airmen would perform Airlifts into it to bring food and other supplies, even refugees. A group of pilots formed Operation Santa Clause, to have people ship presents to West Germany so that the pilots could bring gifts to the Berlin children for Christmas. There was also a plane crash once and there was one survivor for a bit, Russian let his wife visit and that was a huge deal for the day.
 |
| Brandenburg Gate |
I then stumbled upon the Bradenburg Gate, the Victory Column, the place where the Berlin Wall once stood, and the Tiergarten. It was all such a wonderful way to end my time in Berlin and I can't wait to come back in the future.
 |
| On top of the Berlin Victory Column |
No comments:
Post a Comment