Of Beggars, Robbers, and Strollers
The Monument to the Murdered Jews in Europe. I can't really explain this, and the picture shows only one part of it, but it is pretty amazing. Both the students and the kids loved it for different reasons (the students, for the symbolism and the kids because they could run through it and get lost). If you're ever here, you need to see it just to understand how hard it is to explain. We also saw the spot where Hitler's bunker was, which is now marked by a sign -- it is an example of another way of dealing with Third Reich history, and that is the book that we're all reading called Ghosts of Berlin. Reichstag (where the German legislative body meets). Once I understood the history, I didn't think that Christos was so crazy for wrapping it. It was a good PR stunt for a building that needed attention. Now it's nice and new and has a wonderful dome on top that you can run up and down on. See? This is where we ran up and down. One of Will's favorite sites. On S