... from up here. "Here" being the 204m (669ft) high panorama room of the Fernsehturm (television tower) in East-Berlin. One of the highlights of my visit to Berlin. Most of my time there was spent at what Americans call an "adult entertainment convention", resulting in  about 9000 pictures and a sore trigger finger.

However interesting the convention was, it would be a shame to remain locked up at the convention without visiting what is probably the most important city of the 20th century. Some of most important turning points of history all took place right here : the rise and fall of the Third Reich, the beginning and the end of the cold war, ...

Where the western part redeveloped not unlike any other city in West-Germany after being bombed to rubble in WWII the eastern part developed in its own particular Moscow-inspired way and became the capital of a country that no longer exists, East-Germany.

And that is what interested me most, to search and find whatever remains of that former country. And after 42 years the before mentioned television tower is probably still the most important achievement of a true democratic state of peasants and workers.

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