As Peter and Ingrid walked to the Brandenberg Gate, they saw these African dignitaries leave their hotel. They were accompanied by a long procession of police cars and motorcycles.
Three Trabants in a self-described Trabi procession, passed by.
On the east side of the Brandenburg Gate.
The Goddess Quadriga facing east.
In the guest book Ingrid wrote that there should be a mirror at the exit with the inscription, “What would you have done?”
The above-ground memorial consists of more than 2,700 massive, rectangular, coffin-like concrete steles. The underground exhibit is simple and somber, with pictures of the victims and reproductions of their writings (letters, etc.). Though millions died, very few photographs survived.
Most concentration camps were in Eastern Europe. Note some in North Africa.
The Warsaw Ghetto boy in the well-known photo during the 1943 Warsaw Ghetto uprising. SS-Rottenfuehrer Josef Blosche points a submachine gun in his direction.
In 1933, 160,00 Jews lived in Berlin. Ninety thousand emigrated; fifty-five thousand were killed.; seven thousand committed suicide; eight thousand survived.
A month before the end of the war the SS attempted to move concentration camp prisoner, hiding them below deck on the Cap Arcona. the British strafed the ship, sinking it. More than 7,000 people died.
Ingrid and Peter left in a somber mood. They walked slowly across Potsdammer Platz and noticed people staring at the top of a tall building. (What follows this video is not of our making. )