I visited Berlin to experience European modern history but what I found was a city that has been largely rebuilt and overlayed with the new and yet throughout the city there are reminders of a difficult past.
I began my journey at the Berlin Wall Memorial, the dividing line between the Soviet East and the GDR and the French/English/American influenced West Germany.
After visiting the memorial I took the subway to the Seer waterfront to visit the DDR (GDR for English Speakers) Museum. I wanted to learn more about life on the East Bloc under socialist rule. It is a museum full of interactivity, they have artifacts of everyday life as well as doctrine of how life should have been under a complete socialist rule. I found it interesting to note that the East could not really make the conversion to communism nor could they entirely live life in the rest of the Soviet Union, they were like an island.
After the museum I checked out the famed TV Tower in Alexanderplatz only a little way off from the DDR Museum.
My knee was giving me some grief so I wasn’t able to move around the city a whole lot on this day. I ended the day in Hackesche Hofe and enjoyed a particularly nice meal of spaetzle, mushrooms, and steak.
Going East 