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’s place in modern history includes many challenging elements. Join us for tour that intends to illustrate the richness, complexities, and problems of German A Seminar in Berlin cultural and political history. The “Tagesplan” features daily lectures, visits to major sites, , churches, Tour Dates October 22–30, 2017 , neighborhoods, parks, and nearby . Live Your Travel Dreams 7 Nights Per Person Rates: FACULTY INSTRUCTOR - Gordon M. Stewart, Professor Emeri- tus, Department of German, University of Virginia and OLLI Double $3,700 • Single $4,300 faculty member. He holds a B.A. from Union College, M.A. and Ph.D. from The Johns Hopkins University. Your tour includes: • Transportation to & from airport SEMINAR ASSISTANT - Lloyd Raupp, U.S. Army (ret.), served in • Rountrip flights Berlin during the working with refugees entering then . He studied at Free University of Berlin and • Admission & transportation for local tours taught German at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. • accommodations with daily breakfast • 2 dinners TOUR DIRECTOR - Linda Hahn, Travel Coordinator at the Se- nior Center, is a licensed travel agent with a B.S. from Virginia Travel Insured travel protection is available. Tech. She specializes in designing travel for vintage travelers.

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A Seminar in Berlin • October 22–30, 2017 Day by Day Itinerary

Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church Sanssoucci DAY 1 | SUNDAY, OCTOBER 22 DAY 6 | FRIDAY, OCTOBER 27 The Gedächtniskirche or Kaiser Wilhelm and Gardens The Topography of Terror (German: Topo- TRAVEL TO BERLIN Memorial Church is the symbolic center of is the summer palace of graphie des Terrors) is an outdoor and in- 8:45 am Meeting | Cold War in Berlin West Berlin, an anti-war memorial to peace , King of Prus- door history in Berlin, . It DAY 2 | MONDAY, OCTOBER 23 10 am Public transportation to and reconciliation. Following allied bombing sia, in Potsdam, near Berlin. It is is located on Niederkirchnerstrasse, formerly ARRIVAL IN BERLIN during WWII, the original west tower has re- often counted among the German Prinz-Albrecht-Strasse, on the site of build- (Transfer to Hotel Sylter Hof and Museum mained standing as a ruin and is hauntingly rivals of Versailles. While Sanssouci ings which during the Nazi regime from 1933 by chartered bus) 12 pm Lunch on own named the “hollow tooth” as it is literally an is in the more intimate style to 1945 were the headquarters of the Ge- (“Maximilians,” empty husk. Immediately recognizable and and is far smaller than its French Ba- stapo and the SS, the principal instruments 2 pm Meet at hotel Friedrichstraße 185) located on the at the start roque counterpart, it too is notable of repression during the Nazi era. (organizational, 1 pm Friedrichstraße, of the busy shopping district which includes for the numerous temples and fol- welcome reception) , Tauentzienstraße and Ku’damm, this is the lies in the park. The palace was de- Memorial to the Murdered Jews of 3 pm Neighborhood walk and “Palace of Tears” only building on the square deliberately pre- signed/built by Georg Wenzeslaus free time Sanssouci Palace 4:30 pm Local bus back to hotel served as a part ruin. von Knobelsdorff between 1745 and 1747 to The Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Eu- 5:30 pm Early dinner (Restaurant 6 pm Dinner on own fulfill King Frederick’s need for a private resi- and West. Soviet and American tanks briefly rope, also known as the Memorial, Faustus, Platz) Evening free Building dence where he could relax away from the faced each other at the location during the is a memorial in Berlin to the Jewish victims pomp and ceremony of the Berlin court. . of , designed by architect Peter DAY 3 | TUESDAY, OCTOBER 24 DAY 7 | SATURDAY, OCTOBER 28 Eisenman and engineer Buro Happold. 8:45 am Meeting | Orientation to the Castle Palace of Tears 8:45 am Meeting | The German day’s activities The Tränenpalast (English: “Palace of Tears”) The Democratic , 9:30 am Orientation bus tour of is the Berlin colloquialism for the former bor- (Jüdisches Museum Berlin) is one of the 1949-1989 der crossing at Berlin Friedrichstraße station, largest Jewish Museums in Europe. In three Berlin 930-1330 10:30 am Lecture, “Growing up where East Germans said goodbye to visitors buildings, two of which are new additions 2 pm Kurfürstendamm, Kaiser in the DDR, Living in going back to . specifically built for the museum by architect Wilhelm Memorial Church, the Federal Republic,” , two millennia of German- KaDeWe Dr. Barbara Gügold, The is a historical edifice Lecture: “Growing Up in the DDR, Jewish history are on display in the perma- 6 pm Dinner on own and Humboldt University in Berlin, Germany, constructed to house the evening free Living in the Federal Republic,” by nent exhibition as well as in various changing 12:30 pm Local transportation to Imperial Diet, of the . It was exhibitions. Dr. Gügold, Humboldt University DAY 4 | WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 25 for lunch opened in 1894 and housed the Diet until 2 pm Walking Tour, Berlin in 1933, when it was severely damaged after it 8:45 am Meeting | The Reichstag in the Third : was set on fire. Potsdamer Platz Berlin’s Museum Is- German History Wilhelmstraße, Museum An important public square and traffic inter- land is a magnificent Cecilienhof Palace is a palace in Potsdam, section in the center of Berlin, Germany, lying 10 am Local Bus to Reichstag for for the Murdered Jews of Gate work of in its own Europe Topography of The is one of Berlin’s most Brandenburg, Germany built from 1914 to about 1 km (1,100 yd) south of the Branden- group tour 1030 right, an extraordi- Terror/ Museum important monuments – a landmark and 1917. Cecilienhof was the last palace built burg Gate and the Reichstag (German Parlia- 12 pm Brandenburger Gate, nary ensemble of 7:30 pm symbol all in one with over two hundred by the that ruled the ment Building), and close to the southeast , Unter den Bus to Savigny Platz, Kingdom of and the German Empire five world-renowned Linden Dinner on own years of history. A former symbol of the di- corner of the park. museums on an is- until the end of . 3 pm German History Museum 10 pm Bus back to hotel vided city, it drew visitors who used to climb land in River an observation platform in order to get a 5 pm Local bus return to hotel, Checkpoint Charlie right in the heart of DAY 8 | SUNDAY OCTOBER 29 glimpse of the world behind the , Berlin’s city center. dinner on own and evening Checkpoint Charlie (or “Checkpoint FREE DAY on the other side of the barren “death-strip” The many highlights free C”) was the name given by the West- which separated East from West Berlin, geo- include the bust of 8:45 am Meeting | Refugee ern Allies to the best-known Berlin DAY 5 | THURSDAY, OCTOBER 26 graphically and politically. It was here that Nefertiti and the Per- situation in Germany and crossing point between East on June 12, 1987, issued his gamon Altar. Berlin Berlin and West Berlin during the 8:45 am Meeting | The stern command to his cold war adversary ad- Bust of Nefertiti 10 am Cold War (1947–1991). Hohenzollern and Rise Choice of Museums monishing him with the words: “Mr. Gorba- (Local transportation) DDR Museum of Prussia chov – tear down this wall!” 2 pm Afternoon free The East German leader Walter Ul- The DDR Museum is Berlin’s interactive mu- 9:30 am Day trip with chartered bricht agitated and maneuvered to seum and one of the most-visited attractions bus to Potsdam 6:30 pm Bus to Bavarian Potsdam Restaurant Augustiner am Potsdam is a city on the border of Berlin, Ger- get the ’s permission in the German . History comes dynam- 10:30 am Sanssouci, home of Gendarmenmarkt, many. Sanssouci Palace was once the sum- to construct the in 1961 ically alive as the visitor is given a first-hand Frederick the Great mer home of Frederick the Great, former King to stop emigration introduction to life in the first 12 pm Bus to Dutch quarter 9 pm Bus back to hotel and westward through on German soil. See, touch, feel and experi- lunch on own, free time of Prussia. On the grounds of the complex, DAY 9 | MONDAY OCTOBER 30 the Soviet border system, prevent- ence the actual conditions of a long-defunct 3 pm Tour of Cecilienhof, last the Renaissance Palace overlooks DEPARTURE FROM BERLIN Italian-style gardens with fountains. Historic ing escape across the city sector system. Unique artifacts, futuristic technol- home of the Hohenzollern Mill offers city views. English gardens sur- border from communist ogy and a prize-winning design transform 5:30 pm Return to hotel round neoclassical . The into West Berlin. Checkpoint Charlie a museum visit into a great journey back in 7:00 pm Dinner on own 19th-century were built in sev- became a symbol of the Cold War, time. Evening free eral architectural styles. representing the separation of East Checkpoint Charlie