a few days in berlin damage from the battle still there pic heavy

[contact148]

Just spent a month in Europe

while in berlin I was wondering around looking for ww2 era damage getting harder to find as they are really rebuilding the city

flak tower north of city (Humboldthain Flak Tower) last one standing demo attempted after war rubble from city piled around it creating a hill. just massive!

20 mm gun mount pad

roof of the Reichstag still has battle damage

if you look in person the pillars have all been patched and repaired

written by the victorious Russians in charcoal inside the Reichstag now preserved

museum Island every single pillar has heavy damage that's been patched

canal around museum island any brick that was not replaced has shrapnel or bullet scars

Dorotheenstraße 1, 10099 Berlin, Germany

Reich chancellery garden area and entrance to Fuhrer bunker Just a rather boring parking lot now, with crappy com block buildings built on the sight of the Reich chancellery

Russian war memorial

I haven't gone through all my pics but many ww2 era buildings remain around the city

 

[Still alive]

Great pics!
I got a guided tour of the Reichstag in 2001. My wife’s aunt was a retired MP in the CDU and got us a private tour. Your pics brings back memories.

Did you visit Schloss Cecilienhoff where the Potsdam Conference took place?

 

[gordonlbyrne]

very nice thanks for shareing,would like to visit there some day

 

[Garaldtao]

Stark reminder of more trying times... Too bad the punks who tagged all those places can't appreciate the all the hard work and sacrifices!

 

[XRCD011]

Great pics and thanks for posting. When I was there the guide said the statue of the Soviet soldier with his hand extended downwards was to symbolize a fallen and beaten down Germany...................but in reality the fellow could not raise his hand due to all the stolen watches he was wearing.

 

[collector67]

I was in Berlin in ‘92. There was still lots of battle damage, especially on the East side....

 

[tacfoley]

We lived in Berlin for three years in the early 80's when I was in the British Military Mission to the Soviet Forces in Germany - BRIXMIS. There was LOT more visible damage back then.

 

[contact148]

I was mainly in Mitte the whole area is turning very trendy and everything is being torn down or refaced

I did hit up a construction site I spoke with a few workers and they did find a bunch of stuff ammo various personal equipment and broken guns the week before but they claimed to have turned it all in...????

 

[slug]

I was in Berlin, seven or eight years back, and there were still some areas near the wall that were fenced off with rubble inside. The real owners, or heirs, couldn't be traced, so the lots were still vacant.

 

[thepolinator]

Stark reminder of more trying times... Too bad the punks who tagged all those places can't appreciate the all the hard work and sacrifices!

According the op Those punks were the ruussian soldiers

 

[Murray 3-D]

I was quite astonished by how open and un developed they left the capital area there! Its like the Mall in Washington DC or Warsaw Poland.

 

[Armourall]

It's to bad that there is graffiti in this great city too - especially by the obvious historical areas. Everywhere you look now, painting their sh!t on everything

 

[SA85M1]

Thanks for sharing op... there's a valid history lesson here,..

 

[Donny Fenn1]

It's to bad that there is graffiti in this great city too - especially by the obvious historical areas. Everywhere you look now, painting their sh!t on everything

That's how I felt when I went to Venice. Graffiti everywhere.

 

[XRCD011]

To go along with the OPs pics of the trip I suggest folks read The Fall of Berlin 1945 by Antony Beevor, he also wrote the book Stalingrad, another good read.

 

[Winchester-1897]

That's how I felt when I went to Venice. Graffiti everywhere.

Same in Rome even around the Vatican. All over Europe it would seem.

 

[machman]

It's interesting...graffiti, of course every army back until the dawn of recorded history left their mark. Roman Legionnaires left their mark on the Pyramids and wherever else they went. "Kilroy was here!"

 

[XRCD011]

Hey, now those are great OP, you have anymore ?

 

[Coyote Ugly]

Thanks for posting!

Any interesting museums or tours?

Just spent a month in Europe

while in berlin I was wondering around looking for ww2 era damage getting harder to find as they are really rebuilding the city

flak tower north of city (Humboldthain Flak Tower) last one standing demo attempted after war rubble from city piled around it creating a hill. just massive!

20 mm gun mount pad

roof of the Reichstag still has battle damage

if you look in person the pillars have all been patched and repaired

written by the victorious Russians in charcoal inside the Reichstag now preserved

museum Island every single pillar has heavy damage that's been patched

canal around museum island any brick that was not replaced has shrapnel or bullet scars

Dorotheenstraße 1, 10099 Berlin, Germany

Reich chancellery garden area and entrance to Fuhrer bunker Just a rather boring parking lot now, with crappy com block buildings built on the sight of the Reich chancellery

Russian war memorial

I haven't gone through all my pics but many ww2 era buildings remain around the city

 

[contact148]

we did not really have time for museums we did the berlin underground tour which goes through a air raid shelter NO PICS permitted there are some relics displayed that were recovered in the bunker/subway system such as mp44 mp40 K98 PPSH41 20mm cannon and several 20mm magazines helmets and equipment and such and some Nazi ss "supermen" art on the walls

here are a few more pics

last 4 are the Reichstag inside parliament and of the dome from the inside and outside the dome has a long ramp you can walk up great views of the city you MUST book months in advance to enter the Reichstag and even that depends on security and parliment