Take Time to Look Around

On the way to the German History Museum we passed by this one done in the classic style- turns out it is one of many museums in this area, that is Museum Island, the Alte Nationalgalerie Museum. Some of the others are the Pergamon and the Neues Museum. The reason I mention this is because later I came back to visit and I am so glad I did, otherwise I would have missed not only the bust of Nefertiti in the Neues Museum but the Ishtar Gate in the Pergamon! (Unfortunately the Pergamon temple itself was closed off.) It just goes to show the benefits of exploring on your own when you have the time, and what you might miss if you don't.

German History Museum

For our visit to the German History Museum, we were supposed to take two pictures from different centuries related to things talked about in our class. I took photos of Martin Luther, and of Emperor Wilhelm I, Otto von Bismarck, and the Imperial German Flag.  The Imperial German Flag was the one used by the Northern German Confederation. The colors red, black, and white come from the colors of Prussia and of the Hanseatic states, while the coat of arms for the imperial flag is the imperial eagle bearing the Prussian eagle on its shield, and with the crown “of Charlemagne”, that is of the Holy Roman Empire. Emperor Wilhelm I became the emperor, the Kaiser, of Imperial Germany. Bismarck is incredibly important for many reasons, two being he helped bring about Germany’s unification and that he was its chancellor. Martin Luther did many things, among them translating the Bible to German, making it accessible to many, creating a unified version of written German, and creating Protestantism.

Flag of German Empire with Eagle

Otto von Bismarck

Martin Luther

Topographphy of Terror

Berlin

One of the things I found most surprising at the Topography of Terror was that there was an official Protestant bishop for the Third Reich, Ludwig Müller, who was appointed in 1933. However in response many people ended up founding and joining Confessional Churches. These churches acted as places for resistance and were against how the Protestant Church conformed to the National Socialist ideology.  
The museum is also particularly interesting because it is where the Gestapo was headquartered in Berlin.

Unfortunately I couldn't really get a photo of this since it was something I read, however I took photos of the museum.

Nazi Architecture plans

Newspaper Articles from Nazi Era in the Outside Exhibit