We walked all around Berlin, primarily checking out the historical sites in East Berlin: Checkpoint Charlie, Cold War/DDR monuments, the Stazi Museum, Holocaust Memorial, and the Victory Column which leads to the Brandenburg Gate and the famous street from there through the heart of former East Berlin - Unter den Linden. Named for its thousand linden trees, the street was once one of Europe's grand boulevards. Hitler replaced the trees - some 250+ years old - with Nazi flags. Residents were so outraged that he actually replanted the trees you see today.
We also spent a couple hours at the Topography of Terror - an outdoor exhibit/timeline at the site of Hitler's Gestapo and SS command center, located behind a remaining chunk of the Wall. Like most Third Reich sites in Berlin, this place is, and will always, remain a rubble due to the horrible things planned here. Done very well, the exhibit traces the story of the Nazi movement specific to its role in Berlin.
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