Hi guys,
In my new post, I would like to share a location that had sat on my list for years and years.
BERLIN šš©šŖ
Dublin ---> Berlin ā¬90 RETURN Flights
November
I've always wanted to visit, because rumour was that their museums based on the war are quite brutal and harsh and a real reminder of the impact it had on the lives of everyone.
It turns out to be very true...
^ Open top Bus ride around the city... š
WWII has always been another fascination with me...
To think back on a time filled with absolute atrocities during such a turbulent time in history makes one simply lost for words...
(bit of a tongue twister there)
It's hard to believe that this war began less than 100 years ago and how it's still widely publicized in games/movies & music to this day.
š <--- telescope emoji that looks like a mounted machine gun.
I know a lot of the younger generation of people will have gained their interest amongst games such as Call of Duty & Medal of Honor, but for me it was all in the movies.
The very first film that comes to mind has already cemented itself in Film History,
Saving Private Ryan
But the first of it's kind that I can remember watching as a kid was a true classic,
The Bridge on the River Kwai 1957.
^If you haven't seen it, I highly recommend it.
For anyone who has been to Berlin will know that the city also shares a lot of it's history with the Berlin Wall & how the city was divided into two, between East (Soviet) & West.
But for this post I will focus on just WWII,
Otherwise this post would go on forever š
Topography of Terror
- The Topography of Terror is an exhibition located outdoors and built in partially along a remaining part of the Berlin Wall and the remains of what was once the headquarters of the Secret State Police and the SS. š“ļø
It takes you to the very place where the war originated by date and working it's way up towards the end of the war and onto how Germany planned and rebuilt. šļø
Brandenburg Gate
- When the Nazis ascended to power, they used the gate as a party symbol. The gate survived World War II and was amazingly one of the few damaged structures still standing.
Holocaust Memorial
- It's extremely hard to put into words how to describe the design of this structure.
From afar it doesn't look all that big, but as you venture in the strucuted pillars begin to tower over you. (pic š)
Built in 2003/04 it consists of 2,700 steles over 19,000 sq meters.
It commemorates the saddest era of the war and sits as a reminder to the lives of the Jews who were unwillingly executed during that time.
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Hitlers Bunker
- In the final days of the war in Europe, Adolf Hitler, his mistress Eva Braun, and members of the Nazi inner circle retreated to this underground bunker in Berlin. On April 29, 1945, Hitler married Braun, and a day later, they committed suicide.
I wish I could have shown you the inside of this museum, but cameras are not allowed. It is very hard hitting and features a lot of real life pictures taken from the start of the war right up until the end of the war...
Towards the end a lot of rooms have warnings before entering.
You can only imagine... Pictures that have never been viewed or seen before outside of this very building.
Some rooms people would not enter due to the shock horror and the realness & pictures/videos of the events that really happened during that period...
(Prisoners/children of war being rescued/deceased...)
It is a real eye opener and is a šÆ when visiting
BERLIN.
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Holocaust Train Station š
(platform 17)
- Still standing, is the train station which would have unknowingly to the international community, moved more than 50,000 members of the German Jewish population from the Berlin area & deported to ghettos, labor, and concentration camps.
What's left now stands as a painful reminder to the lives lost of the German Jews.
Just a few more pictures down below š
Thank you.