Horrible Hitler

What a busy and interesting day we had today and luckily perfect weather with wall to wall sunshine and blue skies!  After a yummy breakfast buffet we hopped onto our tour bus at 8:30 am and headed out on a sightseeing tour with a local guide to see all the main sights of Berlin and we learned so much about everything on this 3 hour tour. We got off from time to time to take some pictures  and see things up closer. For the rest of the day we were on our own, so Trevor and I decided to take a walking tour with a local company called the Third Reich Berlin Tour where we had an excellent guide, Rob, who took us through the captivating history of the rise and fall of Hitler’s Third Reich. It was a 3.5 hour tour and our heads are crammed with history. This guy was really dynamic and we both were mesmerized by this tour. It was finished about 5:30 pm but we still had not had enough, so we toured a couple more of the many museums in this city.  Interesting to go to the Otto Weidt’s Workshop for the Blind Museum where we learned how he helped do many Jewish people at great risk to himself and we saw the secret room where he had hidden several people. We were pretty distressed after visiting the  Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe and Information Centre! I was in tears reading the tributes; stories; videos and photos about the sad, sad persecution of so many millions of innocent people by Hitler’s Third Reich. A horrible time in the history of humanity but an incredible day:  Brandenburg Gate; Checkpoint Charlie; The Soviet Memorial; SS and Gestapo Headquarters; Charlottenburg Palace; Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church; Tiergarten Park and on and on..amazing…. and lots and lots of great photos. Tomorrow, off to Poland!