Word: reichstag
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...Berlin to what was once East Berlin. Catch it at the zoo, and look for the bomb-damaged Kaiser Wilhelm Church tower, left as a reminder of the horrors of war. After passing the House of World Cultures, known by locals as the Pregnant Oyster, the bus approaches the Reichstag. It sports a huge glass dome by British architect Norman Foster that sits over the plenary hall - from the viewing deck inside you can look down and see parliamentarians at work. Just behind the Reichstag, look carefully for the cobblestone line marking where the Wall once stood. Passing the Brandenburg...
...from the north and Marshal Ivan Konev from the south. When the ring was complete on April 25, the Soviets arrayed a fearful multitude of weapons--6,000 tanks, 42,000 guns--and began bombarding the city. In the central area around the Chancellery and the bunker, around the Reichstag and the opera and the university, the shells landed at the rate of one every five seconds. The barrage went on all day and then all the next...
...Nazi death camp at Auschwitz, Germany still seeks atonement. Berlin's astonishing Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, an undulating graveyard of 2,711 concrete slabs, opens in May. But just as the government prepares to mark the Jan. 27 Auschwitz anniversary with a ceremony in the Reichstag, it is also drafting plans to curb immigration of East European Jews. Germany opened its doors to them in 1991 as a gesture of reparation. At the time, fewer than 30,000 Jews lived in the country and many of their communities were on the verge of dying out. Since then...
...true of Schnabel's brand of oil painting, in which buckets of pigment are applied to vast tarpaulins, sails and boxing-ring mats. His retrospective, "Julian Schnabel Paintings 1978-2003," at the Schirn Museum until April 25, has attracted more ink than anything since Christo wrapped up the Reichstag. Paint could hardly find a more forceful salesman. Schnabel's wide-ranging postmodern repertoire offers something for almost everybody to like, though of course he has high-level, high-volume detractors. In Frankfurt, Schnabel and his Basque wife, Olatz, a stunning former model, were feted like movie stars, with...
...fined for playing near Berlin's Reichstag, but Tiergarten Park is a great spot. On weekends and after 4 p.m. weekdays there are often games in progress...