BERLIN GERMANY

BERLIN BABY! This without a wall city is one of the most fascinating & diverse city I have ever visited in Europe. Travel it's not just to exploring a rare places with a magnificent sights. Travel to places I've never been and learn about their historical and socio-cultural context of the nation and it's people is like putting a puzzle ... it helps me to see a better and bigger picture ... to make sense and understand the immense complexity of what's really going on with the world we live in. It's still ongoing process though but it's full filled my desire to know and experience countless situations that stimulated my imagination and my mind. We all came from history. It is not just about wars and conflicts, history also basis of identity of a nation, a religion, a race, a society, a family and an individual. It can lead to greater understanding of other cultures and why they are the way they are. I'm not consider myself as a palaeophile (wait! palaeophile tu org yg super minat sejarah la ... bukannya pedophile 🙅🏽) but I'm always drawn to it. I'm the guy who went to a museum and read every single writing on a exhibitions until my legs gave up or they forced me out because they want to closing it 😆 Berlin itself is like an open air museum .. so much historical events had happens in this city. One after another we witnessed the most significant major events in our modern history that changed the world to as we see today. WWI, WWII, The Holocaust, The Cold War, our parents may remember the construction of The Berlin Wall and our generation witnessed the fall of it in November 1989. It's history is still only a yesterday's news. Walking around the city I can't help feeling so surreal when standing at the places where Nazi & SS headquarters used to be, on a surface of Hitler bunker where he committed suicide, pacing through the blocks of The Holocaust memorials, Roma & Sinti memorial place, A place where Hilter gave his public speech, standing at Bebelplatz Square looking down at a rows of empty bookshelves considered as voided memorial : The books burning by Nazi in 1933 (This make me want to reread The Book Thief though), The Bernauer Straße ; one of the first place the border between East & West Berlin enforced and of course when I put my hand on The Berlin Wall. A places like this and the stories behind it not only constantly shifts my perspectives but also became a valuable life lesson. I have a chance to join a tour to Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp outside of Berlin used by Nazi regime during WWII : It was conceived as an important model extermination camp. Between 1936 to 1945 over 200,000 prisoners locked away in this camp. Even though Sachsenhausen not a big scale extermination camp like Auschwitz in Poland but still 30,000 prisoners died to tortured, starvation, severe malnutrition, disease and as a victims of extermination experiment by SS.