I'm sure the July 4 date is not a coincidence. What petty anti-American jerks!
Title should be changed. The memorial that has been up for a year is being torn down, not the entire museum.
Questionable nonetheless but quite a bit different...
I actually preferred Germany when it was divided - at least you really knew who was your friend and who was yoru enemy.
I was in Berlin in 1980 for a while as a young student.
My buddy and I entered into East Berlin and walked and walked and explored the city - followed by Stassi everywhere. The money was like toilet paper, the food was inedible, and there was nothing to buy ( you had to "change" some DM into DDR currency at a false exchange rate).
We entered back into West Berlin by walking into freedom through Check Point Charlie. What a blast - and what an appreciation of the freedom we had as Americans.
The Sargent on duty talked to us and invited us in - as it was cold and he wanted to talk about the States.
He had me sit in his chair in the Checkpoint - it was really a trailer - and some traffic came by. He told me to wave them through and that I was now an official Check Point Charlie Checker.
Later that night a man was shot and killed trying to get to West Berlin by swimming across a canal.
Now they want to forget who protected them and gave them their freedom.
We ought to pull every single US soldier out now.
Sad, sad, sad.
I actually preferred Germany when it was divided - at least you really knew who was your friend and who was yoru enemy.
I was in Berlin in 1980 for a while as a young student.
My buddy and I entered into East Berlin and walked and walked and explored the city - followed by Stassi everywhere. The money was like toilet paper, the food was inedible, and there was nothing to buy ( you had to "change" some DM into DDR currency at a false exchange rate).
We entered back into West Berlin by walking into freedom through Check Point Charlie. What a blast - and what an appreciation of the freedom we had as Americans.
The Sargent on duty talked to us and invited us in - as it was cold and he wanted to talk about the States.
He had me sit in his chair in the Checkpoint - it was really a trailer - and some traffic came by. He told me to wave them through and that I was now an official Check Point Charlie Checker.
Later that night a man was shot and killed trying to get to West Berlin by swimming across a canal.
Now they want to forget who protected them and gave them their freedom.
We ought to pull every single US soldier out now.
Sad, sad, sad.
I actually preferred Germany when it was divided - at least you really knew who was your friend and who was yoru enemy.
I was in Berlin in 1980 for a while as a young student.
My buddy and I entered into East Berlin and walked and walked and explored the city - followed by Stassi everywhere. The money was like toilet paper, the food was inedible, and there was nothing to buy ( you had to "change" some DM into DDR currency at a false exchange rate).
We entered back into West Berlin by walking into freedom through Check Point Charlie. What a blast - and what an appreciation of the freedom we had as Americans.
The Sargent on duty talked to us and invited us in - as it was cold and he wanted to talk about the States.
He had me sit in his chair in the Checkpoint - it was really a trailer - and some traffic came by. He told me to wave them through and that I was now an official Check Point Charlie Checker.
Later that night a man was shot and killed trying to get to West Berlin by swimming across a canal.
Now they want to forget who protected them and gave them their freedom.
We ought to pull every single US soldier out now.
Sad, sad, sad.
Schinders List: Scene in the Concentration Camp, "Today we make History" "Its a rumor, it never happened"
One thing I remember is that we had to be in uniform to "tour" East Berlin, and everyone we encountered pointedly ignored us. About a year after that, the Wall came down. I wish I could've been there for THAT! But I was already stateside by then.
The museum should stay to remind everyone of the evil that was the communist bloc; I saw it with my own eyes, and it was chilling.
I'm pretty sure the Stasi archives have a photo of my buttocks stashed away.
I got in trouble at Checkpoint Charlie too. Carrying too much crap back from the East.
Ah, those were the days.
If they get rid of their perceived Disneyland they will replace Schroeder's SPD with a perceived cuckoo clock.
"Those who forget the past..."