This Isn't on the Walking Tour
We continued down the Wilhelmstrasse noting a few plaques indicating the one time site of a Nazi-era office building. When we reached the Mohrenstrasse where this statue to Field Marshalll Leopold von Dessau. He was one of Frederick the Great's generals and instrumental in the Prussian conquest of Silesia. This just so happened to be the region where we would be heading through tomorrow. Finally deciding to consult a map, we discovered we were a few too many streets West of Checkpoint Charlie. We then proceeded east to the Mitte section of Berlin.
As Europe's largest economy and most populous nation, Germany remains a key member of the continent's economic, political, and defense organizations. European power struggles immersed Germany in two devastating World Wars in the first half of the 20t... ... read more 
