1964_05 index
Location: Berlin D
Camera: Kodak 35
Berlin trip with Gossmanns.
See also: 1963 Berlin trip with AFS Germany exchange students.
I traveled with the Gossmanns to Berlin in early 1964 to visit grandparents
(Ursula's father Bernard Hermel and his wife) in Berlin/Zehlendorf.
These photos suggest how amazing Berlin was: beautiful lakes and parks,
the Wall, American soldiers with machine guns...
- Subject: Family trip to Berlin with Gossmanns.
- Location: Berlin.
- Date: early 1964.
- Originals: Kodachrome 35mm slides; developed in Germany, slide mounts undated.
- Digitized: 8/25/08, 8/27/08 with Nikon Coolscan 5000 scanner, 5782 x 3946, TIFF output, 16 bit depth; JPEG conversion via ImageMagick at full resolution.
- From: PNN Cavalcade tray #S6, undated, ERN label "S Berlin 2", SAN label "12/63 Berlin (II)"; and PNN Cavalcade tray #S7, undated, label "S Berlin 2 (cont.) / Class Trip (start)".
A German Wikipedia page shows the bridges over the Teltowkanal,
useful for identifying the pictures below.
The canal was a short walk from the house of the Gossman grandparents
in Berlin Zehlendorf.
The canal formed the southern border of West Berlin in Schönow,
with Brandenburg (then part of East Germany, not East Berlin) on the other side.
- p10: damage to Wall after it was rammed by a heavy vehicle during an escape attempt.
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p41-p43: House and garden of Gossmann grandparents Bernard Hermel & wife
(Ursula's parents) at Ritterhufen 13 in Berlin/Zehlendorf.
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p44: Reini, Jürgen & Helmut
at the destroyed Teltow-Werft-Bruecke (Treidelbahn bridge)
at the end of Sachtlebenstr. / Kleinmachnower Weg,
looking south across Teltowkanal
into Teltow / Brandenburg (East Germany).
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p46-p48: American GIs on patrol at the Knesebeckbrücke,
Teltower Damm between Zehlendorf/Schönow and Teltow.
- p49: at the corner of Teltower Damm and Alt Schönow.
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p50-p54: Potsdamer Platz. The propaganda sign (in East Berlin,
placed for viewers in West Berlin) says "Der Bonner Drang nach
,,Lebensraum'' im Osten kann nur Kopf und Kragen kosten"
(Bonn's push for "Lebensraum" in the east can only cost head and collar).
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p55-p56: Glienickerbrücke, connecting Berlin and Potsdam,
the bridge of the Abel/Powers spy exchange in the film Bridge of Spies.
- p58: Gedächtniskirche in background.
- p59 ff.: Zoo.
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