Berlin Impressions Starting with Brandenburg Gate

Berlin came full of surprises for me.  Despite having read the guide books, I was unprepared, mentally, for the newness, the raw edge to the city, and what seemed an architecturally sterile atmosphere. Intellectually, I knew most of the city had been rebuilt after being bombed to smithereens in WWII, and what the Allied bombers didn’t destroy in the eastern end of the city, the East Germans finished by leveling huge swathes of land to create a “dead zone” around the Berlin Wall. I am no big fan of post-WWII architecture, so the modern architecture of Berlin,…
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