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Soviet War Memorials
03/07/2011
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One closed for renovations
The other with drizzle
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Berlin, June 2011, Schönholzer Heide, Soviet War Memorials, Treptower Park
The Tower The Wall and The Checkpoint
03/07/2011
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A Flak Tower, The Death Zone
And where I got my passport stamped, Allied Checkpoint Charlie
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Allied Checkpoint Charlie, Berlin, Bernauer Straße, Humbolthain Flak Tower, June 2011
The Three Brauhauses
03/07/2011
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Spandau, Mitte and Lemke
Spandau was by far the best
The Luftwaffe Museum
03/07/2011
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Rather hot, rather humid and through a housing estate
But well worth it
Brauhaus in Spandau–The return
30/06/2011
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It was drizzling
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| Tomato soup and dark bread | Rather scary for a plain fair boy like me but rather good | |
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| After the wort has been filtered off | And then back to the farm for cattle feed |
And they do good food
Just across the road from Alstadt Spandau
In Search of Soviet War Memorials
30/06/2011
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The first dry but closed (renovations)
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| Wilhelmsruh S-Bahn | The outside gate | |
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| The sign | The work | |
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| Treptower Park S-Bahn | The park | |
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| The view from the road | It began to drizze | |
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| Not sure what the statue is | Statue of Soviet Soldier | |
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| The entrance to the memorial | Looking down from the entrance | |
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| Looking back towards the entrance | Looking forward towards the memorial | |
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| One of the craved stone slabs around the perimeter | The memorial statue | |
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| Inside the Statue base | And looking back towards the entrance | |
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| Renovations on the statue | And leaving the memorial |
The second wet but open
Aerial view
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Soviet, Treptower Park, War Memorials, Wilhelmsruh
It says it on my Passport
29/06/2011
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The old blue one, that is
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| From the East | And the warning that you are entering the American sector, semi authentic | |
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| This wasn’t there when I crossed through in 85/86 | And the push back. | |
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| Authentic | Not authentic |
Checkpoint Charlie Stamp
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Berlin, Checkpoint Charlie, June 2011
Bernauer Strasse and Nordbahnhof
29/06/2011
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The border, die Mauer and the Park
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| Nordbahnhof (inside) | Nordbahbhof (outside) | |
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| A real section of the wall | A memorial to those who died trying to cross the wall | |
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| Old Mauer sections | A death zone light | |
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| The death zone observation tower | From the tower and the Church memorial in the distance | |
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| The only section of death zone left | A wider view of the death zone | |
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| Mauer Park | Mauer Park, not the real wall |
And work progresses
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Berlin, Bernauer Strasse, Die Mauer, June 2011, Nordbahnhof, The Wall
