Comments on: Postcards From Berlin https://helenography.wordpress.com/2012/10/22/postcards-from-berlin/ Architecture | Photography | Travel Fri, 26 Oct 2012 14:14:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Barbara https://helenography.wordpress.com/2012/10/22/postcards-from-berlin/#comment-414 Fri, 26 Oct 2012 14:14:21 +0000 http://helenography.net/?p=1138#comment-414 When I was there we stayed in the former East Berlin which was being reconstructed, so there were cranes and building sites everywhere (this was 1995, just over five years after the wall came down), but you could still see bullet holes in some of the buildings from the Second World War. It seems so bizarre now that a country could be so arbitrarily divided because of the decisions made at the end of the war, and you wonder who was the worst megalomaniac, Hitler or Stalin.

It would be nice to go back and see what all the building sites turned into.

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