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The new and cosmopolitan Berlin.....
... entrance the prisoners would have used. The Commandant’s house was on the left in a small grove of trees outside the main gate, with neatly manicured lawns. When we passed through the gate, everyone looked at the sign that with the cruel lie that was shown there – Arbeit Macht Frei (work sets you free).
Sachsenhausen was built as a “model camp” in 1936 using labour from other prison camps. It was loosely modeled on Dachau ...
Berlin! Berlin! Wir fahren nach Berlin!
... and dryers were naturally in German. The machines were all computerized and overly fancy; I couldn’t even find the slot where one put in your money. Panic started to take hold, I imagined myself smelly for the rest of my life. With the situation rapidly deteriorating into a bad Young Ones episode reenactment, I noticed a control panel on the wall, and worked out this was how you used the machines. Next problem, we didn’t have the right change. So I strolled up to a ...
Berlin! Berlin! Wir fahren nach Berlin!
... 30pm.. but true to their infamous reputation of delaying flights, our Ezyjet flight was delayed until just after 11pm.. I was a bit freaked out because it sounded like the plane hit or ran over something on the runway, but the plane kept going through take off and we arrived safely so I guess all was well.. Bit concerning though when you hear a loud bang and the plane keeps going =/ Anyway, it was such a short flight.. 1 hour and we had landed in ...
Much Needed Company
... much better than I expected and it was definitely better than the Pilsner which I still didn't like at all. For dinner, I got a vegetarian spatzle which was the best I'd had yet (and I tried it 4 or more different places) and a bowl of red cabbage, which was not overcooked like the one in Munich. Dad got the Goulash Soup and
sauerkraut. It was a great evening.
On Saturday, we got up earlier and tried to go to the Reichstag ...
Sprechen Ze Deusch? Nine!
... sign that looked like it might be a "point of interest" sign with an arrow pointing to the right, so we quickly turned down the rutted grass and gravel path and followed it quite a ways through the forest. We actually came upon all of the actual ruins of the POW camp. All the foundations are still there and parts of some of the walls. There is also a part of the original fencing and a true-to-size re-creation of the tunnel "Harry" where some of the men ...


