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Tango0107 May 2015 3:34 p.m. PST

…Berlin's psyche, 70 years on.

"Berlin is the capital of Europe's economic powerhouse, a vibrant city with a rich cultural life and a palpable sense of growing confidence. But if its future looks brighter than in generations, it also has an awful lot of dark history weighing on its civic conscience.

This Thursday marks the 70th anniversary of Adolf Hitler's death but, like his birthday last Monday, it will understandably go unmarked. For many years the spot where he killed himself was also unmarked. The past can be an unwanted presence in Berlin.

It is, after all, only 25 years since a huge concrete wall separated east from west and communism from capitalism. At first, in an effort to reunify the divided city, the site of the demolished wall was so comprehensively built over that it was hard to know it had been there.

Tourists became so baffled that a cobblestone outline was laid down in the centre of town to show where the wall had stood…"
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Armand

Personal logo Legion 4 Supporting Member of TMP In the TMP Dawghouse08 May 2015 2:10 p.m. PST

OOOW … Scary ! wink If any one is in Hell, if there is a Hell, AH has a seat among his cronies. Plus Former enemies [Uncle Joe Stalin !] and other really bad guys. Some from AQ and Daesh I hope too! Burn baby Burn !!!!!!!!!!! A little hot for Paradise Osama ? evil grin

Tango0108 May 2015 11:24 p.m. PST

(smile)

Amicalement
Armand

Zargon09 May 2015 1:10 p.m. PST

With you on this L4, may they feel the flames eternally. And as an aside my thanks to ALL who lost their lives or lost someone stopping the madness these 70 years past, they shall be remembered.

Personal logo Legion 4 Supporting Member of TMP In the TMP Dawghouse11 May 2015 6:44 a.m. PST

I hope so too. My Father served in the ETO with the 90th ID. He landed at D+10 and WIA'd during the Lorraine Campaign. With him losing some of his hearing from German FA or mortar attacks. He was pulled from the frontlines.
Possibly I'm around because of that ?

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