Removing old streetcar rails near Alexander Platz. (But no bear.)
Friedrich II, or Friedrich the Great, Kaiser from 1740 -1786. Porcelain bust, but no bear.
The non-Jewish women of the Rosenstrasse neighborhood, married to or related to Jewish men, who were arrested or targeted for deportation, initiated and sustained a protest until the men were released. This was the only mass public demonstration by German’s in the Third Reich against the deportation of Jews. Wikipedia.
Our visitors finally found the souvenir they wanted. Since 1280 the bear has been a symbol of Berlin.