This month, 68 years ago, the Soviets invaded Berlin in the last major battle of World War 2. Until I visited Berlin this was just another event I learned in history class. Going there and seeing bullet holes all over the city made it real for me. You can see them on this building on Sigismundstasse near the Gemaldegalerie and the Bendlerblock. It was at the Bendlerblock where Col. Claus von Stauffenberg and his other conspirators where executed for the 20 July plot to kill Hitler. And other locations around Berlin still bare the scars, reminders of it’s grave past.
Berlin is fascinating in the way it does not glorify it’s past and also the way it doesn’t shy away from it.
Sigismundstrasse #5
Colonnade on Bodestrasse on Museum Island
Building surrounding Sophienkirche (Saint Sophia's Church). Martin Luther King Jr. came here during his visit to East Berlin in 1964.
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