Up Against the Wall

Final full day in Berlin...much to report and reflect on...but for now....Have experienced much Cold War history, though not nostalgia, as we are staying in Eastern Berlin and, in fact, nearly every place we've visited has been in the old East (well, there was also the soccer match at Hitler's 1936 Olympics Stadium in the West).  We toured the DDR Museum, which includes a Stasi interrogation room and prison cell, and so on, but today was the highlight:  a visit to the main Berlin Wall memorial at Branhauser Strasse.  It extends for several blocks and includes not only rare lengthy sections of the original and the renovated Walls, but also tributes to the more than 130 shot or otherwise killed trying to escape, tunnels, remains of guard towers, and much, much more, and very tastefully done.  There's even a sculpture that has also been placed in...Hiroshima.   Photos to come but for now: