Side view of Schloss Cecilienhof, complete with 55 unique brick chimneys. This is where the Potsdam Conference took place, headed by Truman, Churchill/Attlee, and Stalin. It's in a public garden along the water in the area of other little castles and monuments, etc. Nice.
One day after class, a group of 5 of us went up north of Berlin to visit another concentration camp, Buchenwald. Personally, I think that every time I visit anoter site of this nature, I am more and more affected by what happened there; this time resulting in a general feeling of urgency to leave. I decided that I won't try to see any more of the Holocaust - my eyes have been opened.
So, a sort of recovery train rideback into Berlin, straight to Under den Linden, the S-Bahn stop right by the Brandenburg Gate. We walked up to the Reichstag, this time at sunset.
The sun was setting just right, so you could see clearly into the plenary chamber.
I think the Reichstag is a must-see in Berlin, if not the must-see. So for me, it was a little bit intense to see such different sides of German history on one day...
The next day, Mitch came on our school tour to see Russian sides of Potsdam, including this KGB prison. It was eerie and really interesting with lots of erased areas of its history. In this picture, we're being lead down to the basement to see the horrible conditions of the "criminals" which was yet another delightful image.
Oh! We also revisited Belvedere am Pfingstberg which had a little building in front. I went here before to take pictures out the view of Potsdam (remember? no? didn't expect you to) but was not aware that Schinkel's first building, albeit small, stands outside the caste. Schinkel was the architect so important to neo-classicism in Berlin/Germany; we're learing about him in architecture too. Cool!
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