Germany, Berlin, 9-10 July 2016

Berlin again, more Museums, this one is the Technical Museum, huge place, very interesting.

: Anhalter Bahnhof Remains

: Tempodrom

: Elise-Tilse-Park

: German Museum of Technology

: German Museum of Technology

: Embroidery

: Portable Gramophone

: Small Gramophone

: Manual Gramophone

: Mechanical Computer

: Konrad Zuse

: Statues

: Old steam engine

: 1st class

: 3rd class

: Engine

: 10 Billion Marks

: Cameras

: Big Camera

: Big Lenses

: Grinding lenses

: Movie cameras

: Big Cannon

: Bicycle

: Hydrodynamics

: Boats

: Boats

: Napoleon’s Boat

: Napoleon’s Boat

: Flight

: Fancy Baloon

: Jet plane

: Messerschmitt BF110

Next stop the Stasi Museum, the Stasi were the East German secret police who spied on the German people, they had about 100,000 employees and 200,000 informants.

An interesting movie about the Stasi “The Lives of Others”

: Maultasche

: Stasi Museum

: Huge

: The Stasi

: Huge

: The Boss

: Spy camera

: Spy camera

: Copying keys

: Double agent

: Deserting

: Prague Spring

: GDR

: Selling spies

: The Boss’s Office

: Spy cameras

: Odour capture

: Briefcase gun

: Heading out

: Hungary opens its borders

: U Bahn

: S Bahn

Topography of Terror seeks to explain how the Third Reich happened, definitely worth a visit and its free as well.

: Topography of Terror

: Topography of Terror

: Lookout

: The Complex

: Terror

: Topography of Terror

: Gestapo

: Resistance

: is futile

: The Boss

: Resistance

: The Volk

: The Boss

: Soviet Prisnors of War

: Resistance

: Time

: Baloon

: The Wall

17 June 1953 memorial, when the workers of the GDR revolted and a slice of Italy in Berlin

: Pizza

: Sharing

: Castellon

: Deyhydration solution

: 17 June 1953

: 17 June 1953

: 17 June 1953

The Berlin Story – Having already visited the Berlin History Museum there were no surprises here, the visit to the Nuclear Bomb Shelter was the highlight.