Recent Trip To East Berlin

[Ron Tamburrini]

Hi All

Spent a few days in Berlin this week so took in a museum or two,took some pics of varied subjects
which i will post in the next week or two after euro but hear is a starter View attachment 104700View attachment 104700

 

[Don]

I can assure you dear readers his trip to East Berlin was only spoiled by his coming home again. Where is the Stazi when you really need them.
Will be looking forward to your photos Ron.

 

[Ron Tamburrini]

Looking for museums or available Russian Brides... Judging by the Nora batty's I see in Polish museums I guess you were out of luck........
I remember being in THE real East berlin as the wall was crumbling...You had to change dollars and spend it over there... What do you spend the equivalent of, I think it was $20 or so,in the workers paradise ?? I had a beer in a cafe and gave the rest to the prettiest waitress .
My bit for peace..... I also remember being chased off by the cops for hammering on the wall with mallet and bolster chisel at 6am in the misty morning I still have 2 big pieces in one of those IKEA display boxes...... AH to be young and stupid again...

there are plenty Nicea Damen in East Berlin, La Senora was with me so had to behave myself

 

[Colin_Fraser]

Didn't you get a shot of Herr Flick's greatcoat?

Colin

 

[Ron Tamburrini]

Didn't you get a shot of Herr Flick's greatcoat?

Colin

was tempted ,saw a nice russian one in an army naval store

 

[ghamilt1]

I remember being there in 1990, and I was there again this past Spring. I was really struck by how much the city has changed in the last 22 years. I still have my piece of the wall that I carved out during that first visit.

 

[Colin_Fraser]

Ron - what museum? The German History Museum in the Zeughaus on Unter den Linden?

Colin

 

[Ron Tamburrini]

Ron - what museum? The German History Museum in the Zeughaus on Unter den Linden?

Colin

Hi Colin
The Deutsche Historiches, and the Pergamon on Museum island , both well worth a visit if you are in that city.
We stayed in the Prensaleur district in the old DDR side ,very cheap and nice with all the old style buildings IE
apartments ,the weather was fair too about 75Deg a pleasant change from the constant rain of my beloved Scotland left in a deluge and returned to one , maybe it will be dry at folk stone over the next couple of days and get a break before the real rain starts here

Ron

PS the exhibit of Napoleons Bicorne allegedly fromWaterloo looks a bit sus though as there seems to be no way of holding the tricolour rosette on and the colours are arranged different from a shako pic I have from the same collection which will post after euro.

 

[Colin_Fraser]

Hi Colin
The Deutsche Historiches, and the Pergamon on Museum island , both well worth a visit if you are in that city.

Because I have a lot of interest in the various anti-Hitler plots, I wanted to visit the Zeughaus (aka Deutche Historisches) but it was only opening the week after I left in 2006. This was the site of Oberst Feiherr von Gersdorff's attempted suicide bombing of Hitler in March 1943. As you can see by the photo taken in the event, had the plastic bombs in his pockets gone off as planned, he also would likley have taken out Himmler, Doenitz, Goering and Keitel as well as some more or less innocent generals and officers. In the little known photo, Gersdorff is seen in the background right side between Doenitz and Keitel. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf_Christoph_Freiherr_von_Gersdorff

What is the saying? "...all for the for the want of a nail?"

Colin