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Images & notes from my first few hours in Berlin.
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rivertext > The Reichstag, which was restored in 1999, was burned in 1933. They still don't know for sure who torched it.
rivertext > As with 9-11, what isn't in doubt is that the destruction gave an ambitious politician the opportunity to seize unprecedented power.
rivertext > According to a well-established internet tradition, the first person in an argument to refer to Hitler loses -- I lost while still in the elevator.
rivertext > As an American who, on his first night in Europe, exited that elevator (the square entrance in the rear) into this extraordinary mix of Germany's past and future, is it any wonder that I got a little spaced.
rivertext > In the restored Reichstag, the German Parliament meets beneath the transparent dome. The architecture proclaims that nothing in this government is hidden from view.
rivertext > Around this inner glass dome is a circular display of the Reichstag's history.
rivertext > In one photo in that circular display Nazi legislators caucus. How I wish it were just the Nazis that we Americans have to place outside of our history -- i.e. in any movie, but in no analogy.
rivertext > Imagine, beneath our Capital's rotunda, a display of the facts about how the Bush family fortune was made financing Hitler, ...
rivertext > ... the JFK assassination, the Reagan campaign's secret deal with Iran, and the presidential selection of 2000.
The Reichstag, which was restored in 1999, was burned in 1933. They still don't know for sure who torched it.
> The Reichstag, which was restored in 1999, was burned in 1933. They still don't know for sure who torched it.
The Reichstag, which was restored in 1999, was burned in 1933. They still don't know for sure who torched it.
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