Have you ever visited a museum or historical site that was REALLY emotional, good or bad?

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21. Berlin.

For a while I lived in an apartment on Berliner Strasse. Some of the neighboring older apartment buildings still had bullet holes in their masonry walls visible from the sidewalk.

The Berlin Wall in part of the French sector had had concrete poured across the top and into the wet concrete they had embedded glass shards that would rip your hands apart if you jumped up to try to escape over the top. And in parts of the no-man's land behind the wall there were automatic firing devices that would open fire if someone trying to escape tripped the wire/sensor.

The official purpose of this Berlin Wall was to keep so-called Western “fascists” from entering East Germany and undermining the socialist state...