Comments on: The Reichstag

By: cpr

cpr — Tue, 29 Nov 2005 07:56:58 +0000

Props to Claudia for the corrections — won’t go further into details here…

So what is left is to point out the queue of visitors, clearly visible on the southern side: Admission to the glass cupola designed by Sir Norman Foster is free (The idea of the reconstruction — which took place before it was “wrapped” btw — is to have a transparent building of democracy)
Especially in the evenings you get an impressive athmosphere up there. Nice to actually live for a while in Berlin, so you can pick less touristy days for a visit!

By: Claudia Hamboch

Claudia Hamboch — Fri, 11 Nov 2005 11:18:10 +0000

Nice pictures – but the informations are either not complete or completly wrong.
1. If at all the Bundestag compares to the US House of Representatives, not the Senate.
2. The Reichstag was never ever home of the Nazi party. That is absolute bull shit. Remember Nuremberg? In fact it is almost a fact that the Nazis had it burned down, because the Reichstag was a symbol for Democracy since it was and is home to the parliament. And the fire served well as a pretext to abolish huma rights. In fact Hitler was in the Reichstag only twice: once as a member of parliament and then as the chancellor the day after it got burned.
3. If you mention it was wrapped why not tell people that it was done by Christo?

By: Al Cohole

Al Cohole — Fri, 11 Nov 2005 10:11:03 +0000

I found this beach in France, there are some structures which could be old bunkers and stuff:
Placemark: Google Maps / Google Earth

By: Keith T.

Keith T. — Fri, 11 Nov 2005 00:00:51 +0000

Arcgon you are pretty much right…

http://www.auschwitz.org.pl/html/eng/historia_KL/index.html

By: Nigerachie

Nigerachie — Thu, 10 Nov 2005 18:48:50 +0000

AHH I see says the blind man. thanks guys

By: ArCgon

ArCgon — Thu, 10 Nov 2005 18:27:21 +0000

Nigerachie, Auschwitz must be somewhere near Polish city of OÅ›wiÄ™cim, so it may be this (but is low res. anyway )
Placemark: Google Maps / Google Earth

By: Esquif

Esquif — Thu, 10 Nov 2005 17:35:19 +0000

Nigerachie, here you can see Arromanche, France, where there was an artificial harbourd build by the Allied in June 1944.

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By: Nigerachie

Nigerachie — Thu, 10 Nov 2005 16:38:48 +0000

Can any one find auschwitz, i cant find it, i also looked for Normandy beach and i think that it is in low res. sucks

By: William

William — Thu, 10 Nov 2005 13:55:35 +0000

Cool! Thanks Alex. It almosts looks like a huge iPOD.

By: Alex

Alex — Thu, 10 Nov 2005 13:50:46 +0000

That William, is Berlin’s [Olympic Velodrome][1] and is the largest hall in Berlin.

[1]: http://www.velodromes.com/berlin.htm