The following day we signed up for a tour that brought us to the Sachsenhausen concentration camp... where millions of POWs were tortured and killed. The pic above shows our tour guide, a local who is pretty talkative, hence informative. Basically the whole half of a day was like a Secondary 2 history class revision: cruelties of war...



This sweeping wall was erected around the assembly compound of the concentration camp, and it is filled with cruciform perforations. Well, each cross is for a prisoner who has died here. There were so many, that it wouldn't have been possible to build a tombstone for each of them...


The letterings welded onto the gate of the campsite meant "hardwork sets you free". Everyday, prisoners are made to do tasks so strenuous that most of them didn't survive. And look at the living conditions they stay in while they are not working in the pics below. Totally depressing...




After a very solemn morning, we went to the Berliner dome. Fronting it was a very turfed open space where people just sit around and bathe in the sun or do their skateboarding stunts, etc. The ideal public space! We took alot of pictures there, but the better ones are all in Cheewee's DSLR (good to have one around. I am the tripod carrier for 2 days!). Waiting patiently for him to edit and send us the photos taken for the whole trip!





I.M. Pei's Berlin Museum extension. The same fella who gave us the glass pyramid in front of the Louvre, Paris tried out a curved glass structure here in Germany. We wonder if it was intentional that the glass curvature captures the entire elevation of the building's neighbouring facades, but the construction itself was already awe-inspring. The glass enclosure is totally separate from its interior walls and spaces. Very nicely detailed!




We went in of course... and stayed till night time for it to light up like a lantern!