Berlin
Berlin is a huge city and the capital of Germany. Split into East and West Berlin
for nearly 50 years, the reunited city has a long way to go before the people
living there will again think of themselves as Berliners rather than from the East
or West. Interestingly, many of the classic tourist sights of the city were on the
east side of the Berlin Wall. It was possible for westerners to travel back and
forth across the border, but it was a whole other matter for communist citizens
to move across the border to the west. The city has no significant monuments from
the Nazi era to prevent people from placing memorials to the brutal regime.
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