Racing Through Warsaw to Berlin
August 13th 2016 <em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Day 200 Friday 5th August 2016 – Vilnius to Warsaw
A respectable time for a bus 10.35am so had breakfast packed and opted for a taxi instead of the 30 minute walk. We got the last two seats together on the bus but they were right at the back luckily they don’t sell the middle seat so they are only 4 people across the 5 se
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Tara Cloud
We survived!
Well, those were a couple of bus rides from hell! I took one of those long, frying, airless rides down to Tierra del Fuego, and many of us truly thought we were going to suffocate because we only stopped at border crossings! They didn't survive--Berlin has lots of museums and memorials to those who didn't survive Hitler's predations--a moving one under that Holocaust Memorial, a Resistance Museum, Jewish Museum and the Wannsee estate, so no one forgets what the Nazis wrought. I suspect they did not want the bunker saved because it would have been, as you said, a magnet for neo-nazis. The Germans are fabulous in teaching the history of Nazism in schools and have come to terms with it, much more than say, we Americans regarding Vietnam, Iraq, etc, etc. Unlike Americans, they don't forget their past.