Guest post by Rachel!

I spent the weekend in Berlin– an especially interesting time to be there since our assigned reading this weekend was about East-West German relations. Photo highlights: the festival of lights taking place at many famous landmarks (the Brandenburg Gate is pictured), police vans arresting rowdy soccer fans by the dozens, checkpoint charlie, a communist propaganda painting, and the Holocaust memorial.

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