Sunday morning in Berlin... the race was still going on when we left the Kaiser Wilhelm Church, and as we walked along the street to our next destination, we saw the so-called "Twisted Worms" sculpture on Kurfurstendamm.
This is where we were headed: to see the facade of the old train station that was destroyed during World War II bombing. Nowadays, it fronts a soccer field.
Here's a detail of the remaining structure. You can see that the head of the statue in the lower right was blasted off. It's somewhat surprising that there aren't more old remnants like this one around the city, but most of the places that were bombed were cleaned up long ago.
Ben and I split off from the group at this point and headed back to check out some of the museums we'd passed a day or two earlier. This statue was in front of the museum housing ancient artifacts from Greece and Rome (pictures from inside will be posted tomorrow). That's the Berliner Dom in the background, and the tower at Alexanderplatz beyond that.
This museum was the site of Hitler's exhibit on decadent art, mounted back in the 1930s to demonstrate how modernism had corroded European culture. The show was a big success, but probably more for putting so many masterpieces on display in one place, and not so much because the visitors bought into Hitler's nonsense.
Here's Benny taking a brief rest before we headed back up the street to the Brandenburg Gate (we also stopped to shop at a flea market along the way, but I don't seem to have any pictures of that-- asleep at the switch for once).
Sunday morning in Berlin... the race was still going on when we left the Kaiser Wilhelm Church, and as we walked along the street to our next destination, we saw the so-called "Twisted Worms" sculpture on Kurfurstendamm.
This is where we were headed: to see the facade of the old train station that was destroyed during World War II bombing. Nowadays, it fronts a soccer field.
Here's a detail of the remaining structure. You can see that the head of the statue in the lower right was blasted off. It's somewhat surprising that there aren't more old remnants like this one around the city, but most of the places that were bombed were cleaned up long ago.
Ben and I split off from the group at this point and headed back to check out some of the museums we'd passed a day or two earlier. This statue was in front of the museum housing ancient artifacts from Greece and Rome (pictures from inside will be posted tomorrow). That's the Berliner Dom in the background, and the tower at Alexanderplatz beyond that.
This museum was the site of Hitler's exhibit on decadent art, mounted back in the 1930s to demonstrate how modernism had corroded European culture. The show was a big success, but probably more for putting so many masterpieces on display in one place, and not so much because the visitors bought into Hitler's nonsense.
Here's Benny taking a brief rest before we headed back up the street to the Brandenburg Gate (we also stopped to shop at a flea market along the way, but I don't seem to have any pictures of that-- asleep at the switch for once).
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