Berlin: on-your-own options in Germany's most intriguing city.(Only A Day In ...)

From: Cruise Travel | Date: March 1, 2005| Author: | Copyright information

Following the devastation of World War II, Berlin, once the German capital, became a divided island city within Communist-controlled East Germany. Happily, the historic city has now come into its own again. The impetus was the sudden and dramatic toppling of the Berlin Wall in November 1989, followed by the reunification of Germany. Two years later Berlin regained capital city status.

I first traveled to Berlin in the summer of 1960 and found the contrast between East Berlin and West Berlin all at once fascinating, disturbing, and saddening. The thriving American, British, and ...

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