Today we
began our day with a tour of the Sachsenhausen museum which is a heart wrenching
tour of a WWII concentration camp. From here we toured around Checkpoint
Charlie in Berlin. A guided tour of the city enabled us to learn and see so
much. We had the chance to stop
and briefly tour various locations including the Holocaust Memorial,
Brandenburg Gate, Head of the German Military, Berlin Victory Column and ended
at a section of the Berlin Wall that is still standing today to remind people
of what should never happen again. The section we were at was unique in the
sense that it showed the view from both sides of the wall. So we could see how
both the Western and Eastern Berliners viewed the wall for 28 years. It is
definitely hard to conceptualize but we had the opportunity that evening to
meet with three Berlin adults who experienced this from both sides because one
grew up in East Berlin while the other two grew up in West Berlin. Prior to
this panel discussion, we had the opportunity to dine together in central
Berlin at a restaurant that served pork schnitzel. Our evening ended riding the
S baun subway system back to the area of West Berlin where we spent our final
night at the Estrella Hotel.
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