This morning we piled in the van and headed to Berlin. On the way we stopped at the memorial at the former Checkpoint Bravo, at the former border to East Germany. It was sobering to walk through the rooms where cars were searched and interrogations took place for so many years
When we got closer to Berlin, we stopped at Potsdam to visit Cecielienhof, one of the last residences of the Hollerzollern family. Cecielienhof is well known for being the site of the Potsdam agreement reached between the Allied powers at the end of WWII. The Potsdam agreement sought to denazify, decentralize and disarm Germany to avoid future conflict. It also set the stage for the cold war, as divisiveness was apparent between the Allies and Germany was divided into occupation zones. Cecielienhof is a well preserved memorial to this important period in history, and provided valuable historic perspective for our visit to Berlin.
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