Well I won't bore you with the 2 days to get to Berlin, so I'll jump right in and tell you about our trip to Potsdam, to see the house where the decision was made to murder millions of people, better known as The House Wannsee
Wannsee Conference - Wikipedia
The day had started with torrential rain, having breakfast and looking out on the streets of Berlin, with the rain chucking it down, I thought bugger it, I've got my wetsuit with me, so let's get on with it.
Imagine my surprise when me and the better half walked out of the hotel, only to find that the rain had stopped. Result or what. As we've been to Berlin a few times, we saw no point in seeing the same buildings over again, let's face it, they're not going to change much are they?.
So with this in mind we decided to take the train, bus and the tram to Potsdam.
Now we bought the ticket, which was a 24 hr pass to use all the above, as many times as you wanted, all for the price of 10 Euros each. An absolute bargain, me thinks.
So off we go, and long story short, it was a doddle to get around Berlin using this 24 hr pass, the only strange thing was, NOBODY looked at, or checked our ticket.
It was dead easy.
So to the house then, it was very interesting for all the wrong reasons, and there were displays telling you what went on, and which murdering tosser took part in the conference. This is a free to enter exhibit. The one thing that I struggle with is that they were almost all sitting down having tea and biscuits, and deciding on how to wipe out a race of people that one man had decided was the cause of all of Germany's problems back then.
The rest of the afternoon was spent walking around the Park Sanssouci which had many fantastic buildings to go and have a look at.
The room below, is where the document was signed.
Wannsee Conference - Wikipedia
The day had started with torrential rain, having breakfast and looking out on the streets of Berlin, with the rain chucking it down, I thought bugger it, I've got my wetsuit with me, so let's get on with it.
Imagine my surprise when me and the better half walked out of the hotel, only to find that the rain had stopped. Result or what. As we've been to Berlin a few times, we saw no point in seeing the same buildings over again, let's face it, they're not going to change much are they?.
So with this in mind we decided to take the train, bus and the tram to Potsdam.
Now we bought the ticket, which was a 24 hr pass to use all the above, as many times as you wanted, all for the price of 10 Euros each. An absolute bargain, me thinks.
So off we go, and long story short, it was a doddle to get around Berlin using this 24 hr pass, the only strange thing was, NOBODY looked at, or checked our ticket.
It was dead easy.
So to the house then, it was very interesting for all the wrong reasons, and there were displays telling you what went on, and which murdering tosser took part in the conference. This is a free to enter exhibit. The one thing that I struggle with is that they were almost all sitting down having tea and biscuits, and deciding on how to wipe out a race of people that one man had decided was the cause of all of Germany's problems back then.
The rest of the afternoon was spent walking around the Park Sanssouci which had many fantastic buildings to go and have a look at.
The room below, is where the document was signed.
