Took the U2 to Potsdamer Platz on my way to the German Resistance Memorial.
Keith Haring's Boxers on Postdamer Strasse
Neue Nationalgalerie
Barnett Newman
Here is where it gets serious.
Today, the commemorative courtyard accessible from the Stauffenbergstrasse represents the center of the Bendler Block. It is dedicated to the memory of the officers executed here on the night of July 20, 1944. The permanent exhibition Resistance to National Socialism on the second floor of the historic building comprehensively documents the motives, methods, and goals of the struggle against the lawless National Socialist state.
http://www.gdw-berlin.de/en/offers/overview/general_information/
The 3rd Floor was closed due to renovations. The center had an exhibition about the Columbia concentration camp and told stories of individuals held there and also interrogated at Gestapo HQ.
It was closed to expand the airport but they opened
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia_concentration_camp
Candle burning for those shot here for their participation in the 20 July Plot to kill Hitler.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/20_July_plot
While taking photos of this building at Sigismundstraße 4, I ran into a retired couple from Cheshire, England. She asked me if I was the traffic warden. Apparently she was worried about getting a parking ticket. They were staying around the corner at the hotel directly across from the German Resistance Memorial. We had a very nice chat about the state of health care in America and what it was like to travel on your own.
http://en.tracesofwar.com/article/3039/Bullet-Impacts-in-Facade-National-Paintings-Museum.htm
Off to see some more Vermeer.
Inside the Gemäldegalerie
Bosch 1488/89 Here's the title in German: Der Evangelist Johannes auf der Insel Patmos
Vermeer #2! The Glass of Wine
Vemeer #3! Woman with a Pearl Necklace
He didn't want to buy the postcard apparently.
3 down, 31 to go.
Oh, hello Caravaggio
Hello, again.
Plaza in front of the Kulturforum facing East toward Potzdamer Platz. The Berlin Philharmonic is the yellow building on the left.
Walking to the Neues Museum to see Nefertiti.
Akhenaten
This is the only way you can get a photo of Nefertiti. Cameras verboten.
A really old stone with some sort of writing on it.
Interior courtyard at the Neues. The building is amazing.
This is the same bullet hole ridden colonnade from yesterday.
Made my first trip to Lidl, the local discount grocery. It's on the next block.
This post was accompanied by NCIS dubbed in German.
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