Alexanderplatz
We went by the TV tower in Alexanderplatz. We went on a tour of the city and got to see the TV tower up close and from far away. Everyday so far we have seen the tower in the east….
Friedrichstadt Palast
We saw even more of Berlin today. In addition to stopping by a bookstore, we saw The One Grand Show at the Friedrichstadt Palast. Images and text by Sidney
Visiting the Berlin Wall
Today we visited the Berlin Wall memorial. This first picture is of the total complexity of the “wall”. It shows “no mans land” where many traps were set up in order to stop escapees from leaving the east part of…
Climbing Teufelsberg
We’ve had a long 36 hours. We arrived with no problems in Berlin this morning. No one got left behind and all of our first time flyers did a great job. After going through immigration and getting a new stamp…
Visiting Sachsenhausen
After many of us getting little to no sleep on the flight from Newark, NJ to Berlin, there were four of us that headed to Sachsenhausen via the Autobahn. Once we returned to Berlin to meet the rest of our…
Leaving for Berlin
Today we left Columbus to go to Berlin, Germany. New York City Skyline Our plane Waiting in Columbus airport Images and text by Alex
A Stasi Prison
Today, our class took a tour of a Stasi prison. We learned about reasons why citizens of the DDR were admitted, and how the Stasi used operational psychology to torture the prisoners. We toured multiple cells as well as interrogation…
Soccer at the Olympic Stadium
There was no better way to end our week abroad than going to Olympic Stadium and watching Berlin’s soccer team, Hertha BSC win against a team from Bavaria. The energy at the stadium was electrifying! As Ohio State students, it…
A research day in Potsdam
On the free day, every group went to different locations in order to do research for individual projects. We travelled to Potsdam to check out the palaces in the Sanssouci Park built by Frederick the Great. First, we went on…
DDR Museum, Stasi Museum, and German Food
On Friday, the students visited the DDR Museum and the Stasi Museum. The DDR Museum is packed with pictures and antiques to replicate what it was like to live in the German Democratic Republic. Similarly, the Stasi Museum had original…
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