My first visit to Germany has set me thinking approximately all the strides Europe has taken since the second world war,and how Britain celebrated them – and no petty political argument persuades me that we were incorrect to do soI visited Berlin – visited Germany – for the first time the other weekend. The city was every bit as emotionally charged as I’d feared and hoped it would be. Hardly surprising, as I spent most of my time in Berlins many museums, and contemplating the various horrors of the city’s recent past.
First discontinue was the GDR Museum,packed with what almost seemed like memorabilia, domestic in its scale, and a testomony to lives got on with in the midst of repression. Last was the Jewish Museum,with the Daniel Libeskind extension, in memorial of the Holocaust, and offering a striking contrast to the GDR.
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Source: theguardian.com