18-APR-2007
Berlin is a fascinating place that includes evidence of past glory, heinous crimes against humanity, devastation, division, competing ideologies, and a remerging world capital.
The Berlin wall ran beside the Brandenburg Gate. Greg stood on each side of the Gate in 1987, one time in West Berlin and the next day directly across the wall in East Berlin.
19-APR-2007
The city that once had a reputation for being "avant garde" may be reclaiming some of that image.
25-APR-2007
This is the new glass dome that now sits on top of the Reichstag, once again Germany's parliament building. Other new government buidlings also include a lot of glass, with the intention of symbolizing government transparency.
22-APR-2007
Small sections of the wall still stand while signs mark the rest of its path. This painting is part of a gallery on one preserved section.
25-APR-2007
Again a normal metro station, this was a "ghost station" where no trains could stop during the period of east/west separation.
25-APR-2007
When people look down from the Reichstag's dome, they see a city without a physical barrier.
22-APR-2007
However, the wall's impact on the cityscape is evident. One can see where sections of it once stood just by looking at where new buildings have been erected in the former "death zone" between east and west. Other areas are now parkland or vacant.
24-APR-2007
This building is found in one of the former desolate areas.
25-APR-2007
The job of German parliamentarians must be made more complicated by the decades their country was split and living under two competing ideologies.
19-APR-2007
Decorating a building beside one of the many empty lots in the former East Berlin...
18-APR-2007
...while, in contrast, some landscape has changed radically since the wall fell.