West Berlin

Fri May 18, 2018 4:18 pm
Germany
Berlin
Obelisk
Cold War
Ruins
Art

During the Cold War, West Berlin was an exclave of West Germany, and much more prosperous than East Berlin.

Siegessäule

Victory Column celebrates a series of Prussian Military Victories in the late 19th Century, all of which helped create German Unification.

Prussia unified Germany by in-turn going to war against Denmark, Austria, France, and other German States, in a series of manipulative chess moves engineered by Otto von Bismarck. It doesn’t make any sense to me either, at least not on the surface.

Siegessäule
Siegessäule
Siegessäule
Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gedächtnis-Kirche

Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gedächtnis-Kirche was not restored after World War II.

Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gedächtnis-Kirche
Landwehr Canal in Tiergarten

Landwehr Canal parallels the Spree River to the south.