berlin: denkmäler | memorials

gleis 17: over 100,000 jews were deported from this suburban rail station track

gleis 17

brass plaques in front of apartment buildings where deported jews once lived

nameless memorial commemorating the deportation of jews in alt-moabit

homage to the wall at potsdamer platz

mother russia facing east at the russian memorial in treptower park

twenty thousand soviet soldiers are buried under the trees bordering the promenade

the marble used in the memorial's construction was recycled from hitler's chancellery

the triumphant soviet soldier clasping a child and destroying the swastika

the stasi prison

topography of terror: site of ss and gestapo headquarters, an "active museum"

memorial at the ex-aviation ministry (one of the largest examples of nazi architecture still standing) commemorating the protests against the east german government