Back to Berlin

I seem to be slipping into a pattern with visits to Berlin – always pretty much 10 years between each visit, although this has given me a good opprtunity to gauge change since the wall came down…

My first time was just after the Berlin wall started to be taken down (the wall came down at the end of 1989 – I visited July 1990), when I went over there to watch a live performance of “The Wall” by Roger Waters,  - 350,000 people on the Potsdamer Platz was quite some sight!  I returned 1999, when building work on the same area was well underway, and then again this year, 10 years further on, when the work is now all completed.  Whilst there is some pretty impressive architecture on this site, I think it’s lost some of the ominous power the same area had, which helped to remind you of the awful things that had occured.   Anyway, on to the shots (the photo used for the link below is the huge structure which now sits right on Potsdamer Platz, the same spot famously known as “No-man’s land” when the Berlin wall was still up, and also the same spot where “The Wall” was performed in 1990):

Tags: Holiday, Photographs

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