Leslie, thanks so much for the photos and the explanations. I can only imagine how emotional it would be to visit Berlin, given its WWII history.

Your explanations are especially meaningful to me this week because I am reading Erik Larson's "In the Garden of Beasts," about the American ambassador and his family during their stay in Berlin in 1933 and 1934, when the Hitler-era atrocities had begun but too few people could imagine the horrors to come. Several of the places you mention loom large in the book, like the Adlon Hotel and the Tiergarten. Also, my book club will be discussing "All But My Life" by Gerda Weissmann Klein this week, the memoir of a Polish Jewish girl who was a teenager in the 1940s. So I am engrossed in WWII history right now.

Thanks again for the education. Oh, and welcome home!