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Berlin – visti in March 2017

Berlin in the spring of 2017.

A young boy unmounting his bicycle in the garden of Schloss Charlottenburg

I spent some time in Berlin in March 2017 for work (the ITB fair) but there was time to wander the city and make some photos.

As a historian I find Berlin absolutely breathtaking. It has a splendid past, but it also played a central role in the nazi regime. The city was devastated by the war, and signs of this destructing is everywhere.

What really impresses me is the way the Germans have learned to live with a very difficult past, without negating what happen. Rather the way old and new is mixed and intertwined makes it clear that they have learned some very hard lessons.

The Germans are looking towards the future, but without turning their back on the last. That is no mean feat.

While there I didn’t visit lots of museums. Rather I just walked the streets, and photographed what I saw.

I have developed some of the photos both in B&W and in colour.  The colour versions are in a separate gallery below.

  • Monument commemorating the people taken to the kz camps by train from the Friedrichstrasse station in Berlin.
    Monument commemorating the people taken to the kz camps by train from the Friedrichstrasse station..
  • Motorbike
  • Kurfürstendamm
  • Alexanderplatz, Berlin, with street musicians and a man leaving them a bit of money
    Alexanderplatz, Berlin, with street musicians and a man leaving them a bit of money
  • U-bahn station and street lamps near the Bundestag in Berlin
    U-bahn station and street lamps near the Bundestag
  • Bicycle parked in front of the Bundestag in Berlin
    Bicycle parked in front of the Bundestag
  • Karl-Marx-Allee, Berlin, with a kid of a skateboard.
    Karl-Marx-Allee with a kid of a skateboard.
  • Street view of the Karl-Marx-Allee in Berlin, with an advertisement billboard
    Street view of the Karl-Marx-Allee, with an advertisement billboard
  • Monument of a couple of lions in the Tiergarten in Berlin, close to the Brandenburger Tor
    Monument of a couple of lions in the Tiergarten, close to the Brandenburger Tor
  • Three women on bicycles at the Brandenburger Tor in Berlin, around sunset.
    Three women on bicycles at the Brandenburger Tor, around sunset.
  • A young boy unmounting his bicycle in the garden of Schloss Charlottenburg
    A young boy unmounting his bicycle in the garden of Schloss Charlottenburg
  • A willow in James-Simon Park with the Berliner Dom and the TV tower in the background
    A willow in James-Simon Park with the Berliner Dom and the TV tower in the background
  • A couple is greeting heartily in Alexanderplatz in Berlin, with a street musician wearing a giraffe head playing drums on buckets
    A couple is greeting heartily in Alexanderplatz, with a street musician wearing a giraffe head playing drums on buckets
  • View of the Berliner Dom from an underpassage leading into the James-Simon park along the Spree in Berlin
    View of the Berliner Dom from an underpassage leading into the James-Simon park along the Spree in Berlin
  • Girl running over the Potzdamer Platz in front of a piece of the Berlin wall
    Girl running over the Potzdamer Platz in front of a piece of the Berlin wall

Colour photographs from Berlin

  • U-bahn station and street lamps near the Bundestag in Berlin
    U-bahn station and street lamps near the Bundestag in Berlin
  • Bicycle parked in front of the Bundestag in Berlin
    Bicycle parked in front of the Bundestag in Berlin
  • Three women on bicycles at the Brandenburger Tor in Berlin, around sunset.
    Three women on bicycles at the Brandenburger Tor in Berlin, around sunset.
  • Girl running over the Potzdamer Platz in front of a piece of the Berlin wall
    Girl running over the Potzdamer Platz in front of a piece of the Berlin wall

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