Berlin is a city of museums, but there's one current exhibition that is generating much interest, both here and abroad. The German History Museum has broken a cultural taboo and curated a show on Hitler. The exhibition considers how Hitler became so powerful--and also how the German people let it happen. After hearing so much about it at the University of Leicester and Reinwardt Academy in Amsterdam, I had to go. Afterwards, I went to Potsdammer Platz to see remaining sections of the wall and then walked down to the Brandenburg Gate. The area around the gate and the Reichstag (German Parliament) was crawling with police because Putin is in town. I didn't get too close, but I did get a view of the building's spectacular glass dome:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reichstag_(building) [scroll down]
Tom would have loved it all.
It's been a cold and snowy day, and I'm happy to be back at the hostel warming up with some hot chocolate. For lunch today, I visited one of Berlin's Christmas markets and indulged in a popular combo of bratwurst and gluhwein (hot mulled wine). Sounds so wrong, but it was excellent.
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