From the Olympic Stadium we returned to the heart of the city to explore the German History Museum, which explains through artefacts and images a thousand years of German History. While a few headed upstairs in search of medieval emperors and Protestant reformers, most of us stayed closer to the present with the twentieth century.
These were still different worlds, and what gets a mention on a page in a textbook was brought to life in powerful displays which illustrated the turmoil in Germany after World War I, the propaganda of the Nazi regime, and its eventual consequences. Finally we found material that showed us the two Germanies that existed following the Second World War until 1990.
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