Sunday, April 18, 2010

Historic Part; Berlin!!!

After a panoramic view of the city, I started walking around city ..

First comes this church near the TV tower..
Rathaus : City Hall of Berlin...


I captured this (Angel) on the way to Berliner Dom...
Comes the Berliner Dom!!!



And comes one more sad memory...

Book Burning memorial!!!!

May 10, 1933 - An event unseen since the Middle Ages occurs as German students from universities formerly regarded as among the finest in the world, gather in Berlin and other German cities to burn books with "unGerman" ideas. Books by Freud, Einstein, Thomas Mann, Jack London, H.G. Wells and many others go up in flames as they give the Nazi salute.


Exactly in the same place...There are enough empty shelves in this subterranean room to hold all the books that were burned on this spot in 1933.....

Okay.. We go to the next stop..
It was Reichtag.. Parliament building....


(This photo I downloaded from internet)The Reichstag dome is the large glass dome at the very top of the building. The dome has a 360-degree view of the surrounding Berlin cityscape. The main hall of the parliament below can also be seen from the cupola, and natural light from above radiates down to the parliament floor. A large sun shield tracks the movement of the sun electronically and blocks direct sunlight which might bedazzle those below. Construction work was finished in 1999 and the seat of parliament was transferred to the Bundestag in April of that year. The dome is open to anyone without prior registration, although the waiting queues can be very long, especially in summertime (August, in particular)...

Not only in august.. It was a very big queue even in early April and with rain (ice fall)....May be next time I will show my own photos..

2 comments:

  1. Really sad abt the book burning thing..!! :(
    Well.. appreciate ur ideas of collecting information.. though!!

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  2. Yeah ... so many sad things in history!!!!

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