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Berlin and Beyond

By: karen Halabi
The new Berlin - Checkpoint Charlie (above), a revamped Reichstag (below).

The new Berlin - Checkpoint Charlie (above), a revamped Reichstag (below)

It’s almost 20 years since the Wall came down, an event which precipitated the disintegration of much of what we knew as the Communist World and the end of the Cold War, but since then a lot more has come down…and gone up.

The historic and newly renovated Reichstag has once again become the seat of the German Parliament as Berlin, dictated by sentimentality, has become the political heart of the country once again….

Copyright ©Karen Halabi 2007

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