Saturday Stroll

After Siri's birthday breakfast at the house, I headed to the Quentin Blake Europe School to check out their Jumbo Sale, which is a back sale/ thrift sale which benefits the school and the families that choose to make a booth.  Having a lot of time to read, and unwilling to carry my ipad everywhere, I needed to invest in some more soft covered English books.  After my searching for some obscure titles, I walked away with 3 books for 1.50. Then I decided to talk a walk to pass some time out of the house before Siri's birthday party this afternoon.

That is when I stumbled upon the AlliiertenMuseum.  Walking in was oddly eery and the museum had the essence of the aftermath of war.  Perhaps it conveyed the arrogance of spending millions of dollars on war, and then millions more to commemorate the destruction in a some-what idolized manner, but hey that's just my view point right?  Nevertheless, the museum had some great information about Berlin during WWII, and documented the fall of the Berlin wall, as well as the occupation of Berlin by the Allied Powers.

It was obvious that the museum was financed by the American government, yet it was very interesting to analyze the perspective captured by the materials and exhibits that were displayed.

Perhaps if there was just one section of the museum dedicated to dissecting the term "reds" or "communists", it would illustrate that we, as a human race have developed a deeper understanding of "enemy" in times of war.  Unfortunately this was absent, and we haven't learned how a stark definition of a term used to group masses of people together can cause great divides.

In fact, even an exhibit that promoted the idea of peace and conversation between opposing parties could have lightened the mood a tad. Or even gave a hopeful glimpse into the future.