CHAPPIDI ABHIRATH REDDY,g
C/O COL GKS REDDY,
Secunderabad - 500 087.
Visited Berlin from 25 Aug to 28 Aug 2018 along with my Younger Daughter and family. Took off from Stansted Airport, London at 0800h on 25 Aug and landed in Berlin at about 1000h. And returned to Stansted on 28 Aug (AN).
Germany
Germany (German: Deutschland German pronunciation: [ˈdɔʏtʃlant]), officially the Federal Republic of Germany (German: Bundesrepublik Deutschland, 
listen (help·info)), is a country in central-western Europe. It includes 16 constituent states, covers an area of 357,386 square kilometres (137,988 sq mi), and has a largely temperate seasonal climate. With nearly 83 million inhabitants, Germany is the most populous member state of the European Union. Germany's capital and largest metropolis is Berlin, while its largest conurbation is the Ruhr, with its main centres of Dortmund and Essen. The country's other major cities are Hamburg, Munich, Cologne, Frankfurt, Stuttgart, Düsseldorf, Leipzig, Bremen, Dresden, Hannover, and Nuremberg.
listen (help·info)), is a country in central-western Europe. It includes 16 constituent states, covers an area of 357,386 square kilometres (137,988 sq mi), and has a largely temperate seasonal climate. With nearly 83 million inhabitants, Germany is the most populous member state of the European Union. Germany's capital and largest metropolis is Berlin, while its largest conurbation is the Ruhr, with its main centres of Dortmund and Essen. The country's other major cities are Hamburg, Munich, Cologne, Frankfurt, Stuttgart, Düsseldorf, Leipzig, Bremen, Dresden, Hannover, and Nuremberg.
Berlin
Berlin (/bɜːrˈlɪn/; German pronunciation: [bɛɐ̯ˈliːn]) is the capital and largest city of Germany by both area and population. Its 3,711,930 (2017) inhabitants make it the second most populous city proper of the European Union after London. The city is one of Germany's 16 federal states, and it is surrounded by the state of Brandenburg, the capital of which, Potsdam, is contiguous with Berlin. The two cities are at the center of the Berlin/Brandenburg Metropolitan Region, which is, with 6,004,857 (2015) inhabitants, Germany's third-largest metropolitan region after the Rhine-Ruhr and Rhine-Main regions.
Berlin straddles the banks of the River Spree, which flows into the River Havel (a tributary of the River Elbe) in the western borough of Spandau. Among the city's main topographical features are the many lakes in the western and southeastern boroughs, formed by the Spree, Havel, and Dahme rivers, the largest of which is Lake Müggelsee. Due to its location in the European Plain, Berlin is influenced by a temperate seasonal climate. About one-third of the city's area is composed of forests, parks, gardens, rivers, canals and lakes. The city lies in the Central German dialect area, the Berlin dialect being a variant of the Lusatian-New Marchian dialects.
The Berlin Wall
The Berlin Wall (German: Berliner Mauer, pronounced [bɛʁˈliːnɐ ˈmaʊ̯ɐ] ( listen)) was a guarded concrete barrier that physically and ideologically divided Berlin from 1961 to 1989. Constructed by the German Democratic Republic (GDR, East Germany), starting on 13 August 1961, the Wall cut off (by land) West Berlin from virtually all of surrounding East Germany and East Berlin until government officials opened it in November 1989. Its demolition officially began on 13 June 1990 and finished in 1992. The barrier included guard towers placed along large concrete walls, accompanied by a wide area (later known as the "death strip") that contained anti-vehicle trenches, "fakir beds" and other defenses. The Eastern Bloc portrayed the Wall as protecting its population from fascist elements conspiring to prevent the "will of the people" in building a socialist state in East Germany.
listen)) was a guarded concrete barrier that physically and ideologically divided Berlin from 1961 to 1989. Constructed by the German Democratic Republic (GDR, East Germany), starting on 13 August 1961, the Wall cut off (by land) West Berlin from virtually all of surrounding East Germany and East Berlin until government officials opened it in November 1989. Its demolition officially began on 13 June 1990 and finished in 1992. The barrier included guard towers placed along large concrete walls, accompanied by a wide area (later known as the "death strip") that contained anti-vehicle trenches, "fakir beds" and other defenses. The Eastern Bloc portrayed the Wall as protecting its population from fascist elements conspiring to prevent the "will of the people" in building a socialist state in East Germany.
GDR authorities officially referred to the Berlin Wall as the Anti-Fascist Protection Rampart (German: Antifaschistischer Schutzwall). The West Berlin city government sometimes referred to it as the "Wall of Shame", a term coined by mayor Willy Brandt in reference to the Wall's restriction on freedom of movement. Along with the separate and much longer Inner German border (IGB), which demarcated the border between East and West Germany, it came to symbolize physically the "Iron Curtain" that separated Western Europe and the Eastern Bloc during the Cold War.
Before the Wall's erection, 3.5 million East Germans circumvented Eastern Bloc emigration restrictions and defected from the GDR, many by crossing over the border from East Berlin into West Berlin; from there they could then travel to West Germany and to other Western European countries. Between 1961 and 1989 the Wall prevented almost all such emigration. During this period over 100,000 people attempted to escape and over 5,000 people succeeded in escaping over the Wall, with an estimated death toll ranging from 136 to more than 200 in and around Berlin.
In 1989 a series of revolutions in nearby Eastern Bloc countries—Poland and Hungary in particular—caused a chain reaction in East Germany that ultimately resulted in the demise of the Wall. After several weeks of civil unrest, the East German government announced on 9 November 1989 that all GDR citizens could visit West Germany and West Berlin. Crowds of East Germans crossed and climbed onto the Wall, joined by West Germans on the other side in a celebratory atmosphere. Over the next few weeks, euphoric people and souvenir hunters chipped away parts of the Wall; the governments later used industrial equipment to remove most of what was left The "fall of the Berlin Wall" paved the way for German reunification, which formally took place on 3 October 1990.
Though the Wall has been demolished during 1989 and 1990, wherever possible, small portions of the wall and complete alignment have been retained as a remainder of the Atrocities committed by the Communists against the People of Germany. Throughout our Tour of Berlin, the remnant's of the Berlin wall are prominently visible.
Our First encounter with a portion of the Berlin Wall
near Potsdamer Railway Station, Berlin
Another view of the same portion
Potsdamer Railway station nearby
Korean Pavilion of Unity, Berlin
Potsdam Square, a public square emblematic of the Cold War and of the reunification between East and West Germany, has seen the construction of a traditional Korean pavilion completed on Nov. 25.
The Unification Pavilion, or Tongiljeong Pavilion (통일정), now welcomes Berliners to their central plaza, giving them a wide view in every direction. Shored up by stone pillars and constructed of pine, all the materials were flown in from Korea. The building allows visitors to have a small chat and to grab a bite to eat as they sit on the floor inside.
The pavilion was built in the hopes that the world would work as one to help the two Koreas achieve reunification, as Germany began to do just over 25 years ago, since Korea has been divided for more than 70 years.
Potsdam Square, a public square emblematic of the Cold War and of the reunification between East and West Germany, has seen the construction of a traditional Korean pavilion completed on Nov. 25.
The Unification Pavilion, or Tongiljeong Pavilion (통일정), now welcomes Berliners to their central plaza, giving them a wide view in every direction. Shored up by stone pillars and constructed of pine, all the materials were flown in from Korea. The building allows visitors to have a small chat and to grab a bite to eat as they sit on the floor inside.
The pavilion was built in the hopes that the world would work as one to help the two Koreas achieve reunification, as Germany began to do just over 25 years ago, since Korea has been divided for more than 70 years.
Korean Pavilion of Unification, Potsdamer Platz Berlin
The Checkpoint Charlie Berlin Wall Museum
The Checkpoint Charlie Museum (German: Das Mauermuseum – Museum Haus am Checkpoint Charlie) is a private museum in Berlin. It is named after the famous crossing point on the Berlin Wall, and was created to document the so-called "best border security system in the world" (in the words of East German general Heinz Hoffmann). On display are the photos and related documents of successful escape attempts from East Germany, together with the escape apparatus: hot-air balloons, getaway cars, chairlifts, and a mini-U-Boat. The museum researches and maintains a list of deaths at the Berlin Wall. It is operated by the Arbeitsgemeinschaft 13. August (August 13th Working Group), and the director is Alexandra Hildebrandt.
The Checkpoint Charlie Museum (German: Das Mauermuseum – Museum Haus am Checkpoint Charlie) is a private museum in Berlin. It is named after the famous crossing point on the Berlin Wall, and was created to document the so-called "best border security system in the world" (in the words of East German general Heinz Hoffmann). On display are the photos and related documents of successful escape attempts from East Germany, together with the escape apparatus: hot-air balloons, getaway cars, chairlifts, and a mini-U-Boat. The museum researches and maintains a list of deaths at the Berlin Wall. It is operated by the Arbeitsgemeinschaft 13. August (August 13th Working Group), and the director is Alexandra Hildebrandt.
About 150 Mtrs of the Inner wall left intact as part of Checkpoint Charlie Museum
A closeup of the Wall at Checkpoint Charlie Museum
Marked Alignment of the Wall near the Museum
A Hole Chiselled through the Wall near the Museum
A portion of the Wall at Checkpoint Museum
Part of the Checkpoint Charlie Museum
A writeup at the Wall Museum
Mock US Troops at Erstwhile Checkpoint Charlie
Another view of Erstwhile Checkpoint Charlie
Photographs at the Museum of the Wall Demolition
A portion of the Wall erected at the Museum for the Visitors to take photos
Berlin Wall Existing Watch TowersAs part of the border fortifications that were the Berlin Wall, there used to be over 300 watchtowers – only three of these survived the dismantling of the border between West and East Berlin: two 'command towers' at Kieler Eck and Schlesischer Busch, as well as a round watchtower near Potsdamer Platz.
One of the Existing watch Towers Near the Wall Memorial
Berlin Wall Memorial
Marking of the Alignment of Berlin Wall
“Where was the Wall?” is undoubtedly one of the questions asked most frequently by people visiting Berlin. ... As part of its overall concept for the Berlin Wall, ... Marking the Wall’s route through the city center with a double row of cobblestones on public streets and sidewalks The Berlin Wall History Mile with a current total of 32 info boards along the course of the Wall inside the City.
The Alignment of the Wall has been marked all along
Marked Alignment of the Wall
The Information pertaining to the Tourist Spots is kind Courtesy Wikipedia
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