Ich bin ein Berliner John F. Kennedy, 1963

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Ich bin ein Berliner!- John F. Kennedy, 1963

• Memories of Berlin and Potsdam
• By Becky Smith
• Libr 500 Foundations of Information Technology

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In April 2007, I traveled to Berlin and Potsdam.

• While there I learned about
• the Second World War
• Former East Berlin
• the Berlin Wall, and
• Potsdam

This is the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church. It
was destroyed during the Second World War but its
remnants were kept as a reminder. Beside it is
part of the new church.
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The Victory Column

• This Column was built to commemorate various
  German victories.
• It was made taller and moved to its current
  location by the Nazis in 1938.
• The Bronze figure is named Victoria.
• After uploading these pictures to my computer, I
  found that

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Victoria has real wings!
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The Brandenburg Gate
Can you see the Victory Column?
The figure on top is called the Quadriga.
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The Quadriga has only been removed from the
Brandenburg Gate Twice.
It was removed first by Napoleon, then after it
was damaged as the Berlin Wall fell.
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Former East Berlin

• Here are two symbols of East Berlin the red Town
  Hall and the Television Tower.
• Tourists can visit both and the television Tower
  has a revolving restaurant.

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The World Time Clock

• It has 24 divisions for the time zones
• the numbers in the middle rotate.
• The top and bottom strips have the names of
  important cities in the Northern and Southern
  Hemispheres grouped by time zone.
• The left arrow shows Vancouver. The right arrow
  shows Halifax.

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Memorial of the Berlin Wall
This is a portion of the Berlin Wall which has
been turned into a memorial. Notice the no-mans
land between the concrete.
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Checkpoint Charlie American border crossing along
the Wall
Even though this is in Germany, the German
warning is the last and smallest on the sign.
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East-side Gallery
This is a 1.3km long section of the Berlin wall
which still has much of its artwork, albeit with
graffiti.
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Potsdam Place
These new buildings were built after the wall
came down. This area was a wasteland before they
were built.
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The Bridge between East West
This bridge joins former West Berlin with Potsdam
in former East Germany.
It was divided by the wall and the work to paint
it was even divided.
As a result this bridge is two different colors
of green!
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Potsdam

• CecilienhofPalace

• Location of the Potsdam Conference in 1945.
• At the conference Churchill, Truman and Stalin
  discussed the future of Germany.
• Today it is a museum and hotel.

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Sanssouci
The French name for this German palace means
without cares.
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The Brandenburg Gate

• Do you think Ive got the name wrong?
• No, there are two (Berlin and Potsdam)
• This one is the older of the two!

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The End!

• I hope you enjoyed my picture tour of Berlin and
  Potsdam!
• For more information, please click the link
  below
• www.visitberlin.de/english/sightseeing/