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Photo Gallery: Top ten ways to honor history while experiencing future facing Berlin

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  • Placard on the cobblestone street marking the line where the Berlin Wall once stood.
  • Part of the Berlin Wall with a famous mural depicting Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev kissing
  • Berlin TV tower rises above Alexanderplatz and nearby St. Marienkirche
  • The S Bahn local train system in Berlin at Alexanderplatz Station
  • Trabi's nearby the Trabi Museum in former East Berlin
  • Matthew and Kelly Kessi in from of the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin
  • The Brandenburg Gate used to divide Berlin in two parts
  • The East Side Gallery offers a canvas for art expression and hosts artists from all over the world contributing their perspective on the reunification of Germany and Berlin. Most of the murals were commissioned in 1990.
  • Part of the Topography of Terror exhibit which shows the various shapes and colors of nazi labels for prisoner during WWII
  • A self-camper developed for a Trabi car on exhibit in the Everyday life in the GDR Museum
  • Copper tiles in Berlin that memorialize different Jewish citizens who died during the Nazi era
  • San Souci palace in the Potsdam complex of palaces parks and grounds
  • Cecilienhof, the home of Crown Prince Wilhelm in Potsdam
  • Communist Art of the former East Germany
  • Section of the Berlin Wall which still remains near the Topography of Terror center in Berlin

To read the blog post associated with these photos, go HERE.