{"id":2692,"date":"2016-12-12T18:15:13","date_gmt":"2016-12-13T02:15:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.levinger.net\/josh\/?p=2692"},"modified":"2019-08-06T13:45:21","modified_gmt":"2019-08-06T20:45:21","slug":"learning-from-history-berlin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.levinger.net\/josh\/2016\/12\/12\/learning-from-history-berlin","title":{"rendered":"Learning from History: Berlin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Heading to Old Europe to learn from the masters about fighting fascism. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>First stop: Berlin, where we paid respects at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gdw-berlin.de\/en\/home\/\">German Resistance Memorial<\/a>. Brave soldiers and civilians stood up to Nazism, and were murdered by state. Today seen as heroes, not traitors. They resisted not just through the failed coups, but through their churches, schools, youth groups, civil society, scientists and artists.<\/p>\n<div class=\"inline-photo\"><a title=\"Members of July 20th coup against Hitler\" href=\"https:\/\/farm1.staticflickr.com\/526\/31242518130_2d0a73d1e3_b.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone \" src=\"https:\/\/farm1.staticflickr.com\/526\/31242518130_2d0a73d1e3_m.jpg\" alt=\"Members of July 20th coup against Hitler\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h4>Members of July 20th coup against Hitler<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"inline-photo\" style=\"clear: right;\"><a title=\"Add your own vowels\" href=\"https:\/\/farm1.staticflickr.com\/461\/31577891306_169c8d8d2d_b.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone \" src=\"https:\/\/farm1.staticflickr.com\/461\/31577891306_169c8d8d2d_m.jpg\" alt=\"Add your own vowels\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h4>Add your own vowels<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"inline-photo\"><a title=\"German Resistance Memorial\" href=\"https:\/\/farm1.staticflickr.com\/58\/31242548020_d217da563a_b.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone \" src=\"https:\/\/farm1.staticflickr.com\/58\/31242548020_d217da563a_m.jpg\" alt=\"German Resistance Memorial\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h4>German Resistance Memorial<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n<p>We also re-visited the Berlin Wall <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eastsidegallery-berlin.com\/data\/eng\/index-eng.htm\">Eastside gallery<\/a>. The murals are much cleaner than they were last year, after a dedicated graffiti removal campaign. That hasn&#8217;t stopped newer hands from adding their voices, though.<\/p>\n<div class=\"inline-photo\"><a title=\"Breach in the Barrier\" href=\"https:\/\/farm1.staticflickr.com\/292\/31771120182_792e1d03b7_b.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone \" src=\"https:\/\/farm1.staticflickr.com\/292\/31771120182_792e1d03b7_m.jpg\" alt=\"Breach in the Barrier\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h4>Breach in the Barrier<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"inline-photo\"><a title=\"Tearing Down the Wall\" href=\"https:\/\/farm1.staticflickr.com\/381\/31078656684_7f3f3cd97a_b.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone \" src=\"https:\/\/farm1.staticflickr.com\/381\/31078656684_7f3f3cd97a_m.jpg\" alt=\"Tearing Down the Wall\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h4>Tearing Down the Wall<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"inline-photo\"><a title=\"My God, Help Me to Survive This Deadly Love\" href=\"https:\/\/farm1.staticflickr.com\/735\/31078647434_53ca01ebfb_b.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone \" src=\"https:\/\/farm1.staticflickr.com\/735\/31078647434_53ca01ebfb_m.jpg\" alt=\"My God, Help Me to Survive This Deadly Love\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h4>My God, Help Me to Survive This Deadly Love<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n<p>We also enjoyed the Christmas markets, which feel festive without being schmaltzy. Although perhaps that&#8217;s just because it&#8217;s a different kind of tackiness than I&#8217;m used to. This was before the attack on the market at Breitschedidplatz, which sadly temper our memories of the season.<\/p>\n<div class=\"inline-photo\"><a title=\"Pile of Sausages\" href=\"https:\/\/farm1.staticflickr.com\/269\/31545631700_e14f02ddd5_b.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone \" src=\"https:\/\/farm1.staticflickr.com\/269\/31545631700_e14f02ddd5_m.jpg\" alt=\"Pile of Sausages\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h4>Pile of Sausages<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"inline-photo\"><a title=\"Christmas Carousel\" href=\"https:\/\/farm1.staticflickr.com\/392\/31109487673_35307545c6_b.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone \" src=\"https:\/\/farm1.staticflickr.com\/392\/31109487673_35307545c6_m.jpg\" alt=\"Christmas Carousel\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h4>Christmas Carousel<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"inline-photo\"><a title=\"Gl\u00fchwein\" href=\"https:\/\/farm1.staticflickr.com\/389\/31771188942_e4be99865c_b.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone \" src=\"https:\/\/farm1.staticflickr.com\/389\/31771188942_e4be99865c_m.jpg\" alt=\"Gl\u00fchwein\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h4>Gl\u00fchwein<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Heading to Old Europe to learn from the masters about fighting fascism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2693,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[105],"class_list":["post-2692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-travel","tag-germany"],"geo":{"latitude":52.5200081,"longitude":13.404954,"description":"Berlin, Germany"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.levinger.net\/josh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.levinger.net\/josh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.levinger.net\/josh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.levinger.net\/josh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.levinger.net\/josh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2692"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.levinger.net\/josh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3310,"href":"https:\/\/www.levinger.net\/josh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2692\/revisions\/3310"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.levinger.net\/josh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.levinger.net\/josh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.levinger.net\/josh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.levinger.net\/josh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}