Thursday, August 14, 2008

 

 

 

 

The first three pictures are of the memorial in Berlin to the Jewish victims of the Holocaust. It covers approximately one city block with a Jewish museum below these concrete blocks. The height of the blocks vary from one end of the memorial to other. As you walk through the memorial and the blocks get higher and higher you begin to feel closed in, yet you can hear the noise from the streets around the memorial. The blocks are in rows as you can see, but the unevenness of the ground feels crazy.

As you walk kiddy-corner from the memorial you come to a parking lot, with a sign stating that between those two trees is the spot where Hitler's body was burned. The Germans wanted to make sure that no one would get his body. Deep within the ground nearby are traces of his bunker. What a strange sight to be in the middle of a parking lot.
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