An Englishman can only imagine the difficulties of having his nation or city divided for half a century, and the great excitement and promise reunification brings. I visited Berlin in February 2006, and although the mark of Soviet rule was evident, I felt a strong sense of hope and oppportunity for the future.

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Deutschland.	Lord Foster's new dome.	The Reichstag, seat of the German government.
Berlin.
The legal department of the Humboldt University.	The Russian Embassy on Unter Den Linden, the main boulevard.	The Staatsbibliothek.
The Staatsoper.	Me, at the Reichstag.	The beautiful courtyard of the Staatsbibliothek.
St. Hedwig's Cathedral, behind the Staatsoper.	Neue Wache, a war memorial.	The Zeughaus.
The Alte Nationalgalerie.	The Pergamon Museum.	The altar from the ancient Greek city of Pergamon.
The Ishtar Gate, from the ancient city of Babylon.	The Altes Museum.	An S-Bahn train passes the Pergamon and Bode museums.
The Bode Museum sits at the corner of Museum Island, near the other museums and the cathedral.		The Altes Museum ("all art has been contemporary").
The Rotes Rathaus.	Marienkirche, next to the Neptune fountain on Alexanderplatz.	The Rathaus tower. I expect Waterhouse would have liked this.
Gendarmenmarkt is a square with two churches, the Deutscher Dom and its near-identical sibling, the Französischer Dom, flanking the beautiful Konzerthaus.
The Martin Gropius Bau, an exhibition space.	The tall buildings of Potsdamer Platz, as seen at some distance.	The lower house of the German parliament.
Berliner Dom, the cathedral.
Alexanderplatz, in East Berlin.	East Berlin.	The main post office.
The Neue Synagogue.	The former Luftwaffe HQ.	The bombed remains of Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gedächtniskirche.
Checkpoint Charlie.	The Siegessäule, a victory column. Said to be waving triumphantly at Paris.	The Berlin Wall.