Ich Bin Ein Berliner

These are the famous words of John F. Kennedy from his speech in 1963 which are highly commemorated in Berlin. It means ''I am a Berliner'' and it is such a famous line, because it demonstrates the United States support for Western Germany, which escaped from the Soviet Control.

Today has been a really intense day comprised of a long train ride and a guided tour through the entire city which presented some of the most interesting history I have ever heard. I have always been well aware of the horrendous damage that hit Germany during World War II, however, it did not occur to me nearly as much until I actually physically walked the streets where so many killings and bombings took place. The hardest thing for me to see was the graveyard of 2000 Jewish Holocaust victims. This was a graveyard like no other, not a single name printed on the grave and not a single grave went beneath the ground. They were all abstract blocks which were of varied heights. The graveyard interestingly enough is right next to the exact spot where Adolf Hitler and his wife committed suicide.

Our tour guide was really awesome, he was born and raised in Berlin and was one of the 50,000 people who jumped through the gates of the Berlin wall in 1989 when it was finally legal to go from East Germany to West Germany.

Now we are off to get some dinner then check out one of Berlin's famous clubs !