Berlin has been in the center of several major events; as a result, the city is overflowing with monuments built to commemorate the events and, usually, the staggering number of people who died as a result of those events. For this reason, Berlin is often seen as the world capital of memorials. The Soviets built several monuments to their war dead after they took the city, each with very very large statues of Soviet soldiers doing heroic Soviet-y things. Another mark of the Soviet presence here in WWII is the thousands of bullet holes left, pockmarking buildings all over the city to serve as a reminder of the price of war. There’s also the monument to German dead, and to the German soldiers who served on the loyalist side in the Spanish Civil War. But the most impressive memorial by far is the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, which was one of the most incredible monuments I’ve ever seen.
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