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Berlin, May 2023 Berlin the trendsetter: Be it sightseeing or trendy nightlife, galleries or gastronomy, music or fashion - the German capital always has something fresh to offer. So what exactly is it that makes Berlin so appealing? It is the diversity, the wide variety of contrasts and the sheer inexhaustible range of options that keep visitors flocking to Berlin from all over the world.

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... Berlin is one of the few cities that is home to three UNESCO World Heritage Sites? In addition to the famous Museumsinsel (Museum Island) and the Prussian palaces and gardens, it also includes the modernist housing estates in Berlin. The German capital was also awarded the accolade of "UNESCO City of Design". Berlin is thus a member of the UNESCO network of Creative Cities.
... Berlin is the only city in the world to host three opera houses? The Deutsche Oper, the Staatsoper Unter den Linden and the Komische Oper can accommodate more than 4,400 spectators. The latter will be undergoing extensive renovation for several years starting in August 2023 and will hence move to the Schillertheater for that period.
... Berlin has more than 150 theatres and stages of all genres? In the year 2022, a massive 2.5 million tickets were sold for theatre, orchestra and dance performances. The Friedrichstadt Palast is an absolute hit with audiences, followed by the Berlin Philharmonic and the Staatsoper Unter den Linden.
... Berlin is the only European city that can boast of more museums than the number of rainy days? Because the average number of rainy days per year is 106, whereas the number of museums is around 170.
... the Gemäldegalerie at the Kulturforum, inaugurated in 1998, houses many collections? Namely, it brings together the painting collections of the Bode-Museum (in the former eastern part of the city) and the former Gemäldegalerie in Dahlem (in the former western part of the city), which were separated due to the division of the city.
... with around 290 galleries dedicated to classical modern and contemporary art, Berlin is the top location for galleries in Europe?
... the world's largest universal museum is under construction on the Museumsinsel in the centre of Berlin? Alte Nationalgalerie, Bode-Museum, Altes Museum and Neues Museum with the world-famous bust of Nefertiti have already been renovated. The James-Simon-Galerie connects four of the five buildings on the Museumsinsel. The Pergamonmuseum is undergoing a complete renovation. The north wing and the middle section are currently being modernised, followed by the south wing. A new fourth wing is also planned, which will connect the north and south wings. So hurry up and check it out: From 23 October 2023, the museum will be completely closed for three and a half years. Parts of the museum are expected to reopen in spring 2027, and the southern part of the building will probably open in 2037.
... following the footsteps of the Louvre in Paris , the Hermitage in St Petersburg and the British Museum in London , four of the Museumsinsel buildings will be interconnected in future via an underground tour?
... the central entrance building of Berlin's Museumsinsel, the James-Simon-Galerie, was named after the art patron James Simon? It is thanks to him that the famous bust of Nefertiti can be seen at the Neues Museum. The James-Simon-Galerie, a simple concrete building with slender white columns, designed by David Chipperfield, connects four of the five buildings on the Museumsinsel.
... 7.5 million people from Germany and abroad flooded into Berlin's museums in 2022? That is nearly the same number as before the pandemic. The visitors are particularly fond of the memorials and documentation centres, such as the Berlin Wall Memorial or the memorial site "Topography of Terror". Some museums and foundations even managed to outdo the number of visitors from 2019, including the Domäne Dahlem, the Schwules Museum or the KW Institute for Contemporary Art.
... in addition to the world renowned collections, Berlin also has offbeat museums? These include the Lipstick Museum, the Schwules Museum, the Hemp Museum or the Urban Nation, the museum for "urban contemporary art". The Buchstabenmuseum (Museum of Letters) is also one of a kind in the world. Its collection includes more than 1,000 letters, lettering, logos and signs, most of which come from the Berlin cityscape.
... the East Side Gallery is the longest open-air gallery in the world and at 1,316 metres, also the longest remaining section of the Berlin Wall? This section was painted in 1990 by 118 artists from 21 countries with 106 pieces of art. Many of the artists in the collection returned to Berlin in 2009 to brush up on their artworks. The online exhibition is a new feature: In 76 video interviews, artists and people from Friedrichshain and Kreuzberg talk about their lives in the divided city - at the time when they crossed the border as well as after that.
... Berlin hosts more than 50 film festivals every year? No wonder, there are almost 91 cinema halls with 266 screens here, which is the maximum number in a single city across Germany. From the big film festivals to specials: A wide variety of film festivals on a wide range of topics are held here throughout the year, including of course the Berlinale, the Berlin Independent Film Festival, the Berlin International Film Festival or the Sehsüchte Festival.
... the Berlinale will already be 74 years old in 2024? It is one of the most popular film festivals in Europe and as the film industry's top media event, it draws around 20,000 trade visitors and journalists from 132 countries every year. What sets the Berlinale apart from other film festivals is the huge amount of public participation. Cinema fans from Germany and abroad bought around 320,000 tickets in 2023 (not counting those of the trade audience).
... Berlin is a sought-after setting for international films and series? "Babylon Berlin" was filmed here, as was the fifth season of the hit US series "Homeland" as well as blockbusters such as "Inglourious Basterds" and "The First Avenger: Civil War". One of the most popular filming locations was Pfaueninsel (Peacock Island). It served as the backdrop for no less than six Edgar Wallace films, including "Neues vom Hexer" (News of the Magician) and "Der Mönch mit der Peitsche" (The Monk with the Whip).
... Berlin landmarks are seen in a different light once a year? At the "Festival of Lights", which takes place in October, the TV Tower, the Brandenburg Gate, the Berlin Cathedral, the Victory Column and many other buildings serve as huge projection surfaces for original light installations. They make the festival one of the most elaborate and popular light art festivals in the world. The organiser opts for energy-saving LED technology. More than three million people came to Berlin in 2022 to enjoy this light spectacle, which is free of charge.

Urban Nature

... Berlin is not only the largest, but also the greenest metropolis in Germany? Around 30 percent of the total area of 892 square kilometres is green and forested land. The streets are lined with around 432,000 trees. 2,500 parks and green spaces offer recreational opportunities for Berliners as well as visitors. In addition, there are about 880 colonies of allotment gardens with over 71,000 gardens within the city.
... 6.6 percent of Berlin's total area is covered by water? That comes to a striking 58.9 square kilometres. At 45 kilometres, the Spree is the longest river in the city; the Teltow Canal is the longest canal in the city at 29 kilometres. Visitors can also explore Berlin aboard an excursion boat: This offer includes everything from short round trips to boat tours that last for several hours.
... the city's largest lake is the Großer Müggelsee with a surface area of almost 7.6 square kilometres?
... Berlin's second highest elevation, the 120-metre-high Teufelsberg, is made of rubble? After the war, 26 million cubic metres of rubble were piled up here.
... the tallest tree in Berlin is a Beech tree that was planted in Tegeler Forst in 1843? It has now reached a height of 43.15 metres and a diameter of 96 centimetres. It thus knocks the Burgsdorf larch out from the first place. The Tegeler Forst is a forest of superlatives. It is also home to the oldest tree, a pedunculate oak estimated to be 800 to 900 years old. It is about 15 metres high, the circumference of the trunk is 6.65 metres. It is said that Alexander and Wilhelm von Humboldt gave it the name "Dicke Marie".
... Berlin is home to the largest Chinese garden in Europe? It is part of the Marzahn Recreationa Park with its ensemble of eleven "Gardens of the World". Here visitors can also enjoy a tea ceremony. There are also Balinese, Japanese, Korean and Oriental gardens, an Italian Renaissance garden, a perennial garden, a Christian garden, an English landscape garden, a Jewish garden and a maze.
... Berlin is home to two zoos due to the former division of the city - the Tierpark Berlin in Friedrichsfelde with its beautiful outdoor enclosures, and the Zoologischer Garten with its aquarium? The two zoo locations in the capital hold many a records. With around 30,000 animals, they have a combined population that is unmatched anywhere in the world in terms of diversity and rarity. Founded about 175 years ago, Berlin's Zoological Garden (Zoologischer Garten) is the oldest surviving zoo in Germany, the third oldest in Europe and also the most richly biodiverse zoo in the world. The neighbouring aquarium, one of the largest in the world, has also earned this distinction. Yet another record: With an area of 160 hectares, the Friedrichsfelde Zoo is the largest adventure animal park in Europe.
... Berlin's oldest zoo inhabitant is 75 years old? At least that is the estimate. Thanks to full board, the best medical care and being far away from natural predators, Ingo the flamingo has left its average life expectancy of 30 years far behind. Just a little younger than him is Fatou, the world's oldest gorilla. This old lady is probably 66 years old and also lives in the Berlin Zoo.
... the Berlin Zoo is home to the only panda bears in Germany? Since 2017, Meng Meng and Jiao Qing have been living in the panda garden that was built especially for them. Their cubs were born in August 2019. Since then, the panda twins Mengxiang (roughly translated as "dream awaited") and Mengyuan ("dream fulfilled") have conquered the hearts of zoo visitors. The two panda brothers - affectionately known as Pit and Paule - are now in their teens and live separately from their mother.

Culinary Delights of Berlin

... Berlin is ‘the’ place to go for gourmets? 23 restaurants in Berlin have been awarded Michelin stars. This puts Berlin ahead of Munich and Hamburg. Five restaurants received two Michelin stars and 17 more have one star. The highest rating of three stars was again awarded to "Rutz". It is the first and only three-star restaurant in Berlin since 2020. Enjoy your meal!
... Berlin is the European city with the most Green Michelin Stars? And this is more than Copenhagen, Paris and Oslo. Eight restaurants in the German capital excel in sustainability because they use regional and seasonal products, avoid long transport routes, pay attention to species-appropriate animal husbandry and save energy. The "Cordo", the "Bandol sur Mer", the "FREA", the "Rutz", "Nobelhart & Schmutzig", the "Horváth", "Lode & Stijn" and the "Tisk" were all given awards.
... the Hotel Adlon serves a noble Döner Kebab? For just under 30 euros, you get a flatbread filled with fillet strips of veal loin, lettuce and cabbage, tomatoes, red onions and a special truffle cream.
... Berlin has its own beer speciality? Berliner Weiße is a fizzy, slightly sour beer made with a blend of wheat and barley malt and fermented in the bottle. Served with a shot of raspberry or woodruff syrup, this makes for a refreshing summer drink called “Weiße mit Schuss”.
... the most famous pastry in Berlin is a fist-sized boiled pastry filled with jam? In the rest of the country, it is known as the Berliner. But you would not find it under this name in Berlin. The people of Berlin simply refer to it as “pancakes” (Pfannkuchen). And what is usually understood as pancakes in the rest of Germany are called “egg pancakes” (Eierkuchen) in Berlin.
.... visitBerlin.de alone lists more than 40 vegan and vegetarian restaurants ? The actual number is probably much higher, because new restaurants, snack bars, cafés and pubs keep popping up all the time. Ice cream parlours, supermarkets and meat shops also offer exclusively animal-free food and products - there is even a vegan sex shop in the German capital.
... there is a restaurant on the roof of the German Bundestag? It is the only restaurant in the world that is in a parliament building and is open to the public. However, an advance booking is mandatory.
... the oldest restaurant in Berlin is more than 400 years old and is still in business today? The restaurant "Zur letzten Instanz" has been located on Waisenstraße since 1621, once hosted Napoleon and is now frequented by numerous celebrities.
... the Berlin public transport system is supposed to have carried 961.4 million passengers in 2022? 492.1 million people took the "underground train" (U-Bahn), 177.2 million took the tram and 404.7 million took the bus or the ferry. Admittedly, this is not as many passenger rides as in 2019, when the Berlin Transport Authority (BVG) broke the record with 1,126 million rides. However, its status of the "subscription millionaire" since October 2022 kind of makes up for that. The number of existing subscriptions has in the meanwhile risen further to around 1.06 million. At the end of 2021, the number of people who owned a season ticket was around 869,000.
... the Berlin public transport network also includes six ferries? Among other things, they run all year round from Wannsee suburban railway station (S-Bahnhof) to Alt-Kladow and seasonally from Müggelheim to Rahnsdorf.
... the longest ferry route in Berlin, the F10, runs across the Großer Wannsee? The distance is 4.4 kilometres.
... an Englishman set a Guinness World Record in May 2017? Adham Fisher covered all 173 Berlin underground stations in 6 hours, 53 minutes and 24 seconds, breaking the record that was previously set in 2014.
... with Berlin Central Station, the city has for the first time in its history been given a genuine central interchange station, which is the largest in Europe? Around 320,000 passengers board numerous regional and long-distance trains here every day.
... four ICE Sprinter connections link Berlin with other German cities? The Berlin-Munich journey takes less than four hours and is offered six times a day, whereas the Berlin-Frankfurt route is offered no less than seven times a day. The leisurely night travel is also gaining popularity and Berlin is clearly one of the hotspots of this trend: Since spring 2023, there have been new direct connections to Holland, Belgium and Sweden.
... Berlin's cycling network covers 2,376 kilometres including the outer districts? By the year 2030, it is expected to be further expanded within the framework of the Mobility Act, 800 kilometres of which will be in the priority network and 1,500 kilometres will be in the supplementary network.
... the length of the German capital's public road network is 5,480 kilometres?
... the longest road in the city, 11.9 kilometres, is the Adlergestell running from Adlershof to Schmöckwitz? And the shortest road, Eiergasse in the Nikolai district, measures only 16 metres! The widest road, at 85.2 metres, is not Breite Straße but Straße des 17. Juni.

The City and its History

... Berlin's city boundary is 234 kilometres long? The largest extension from east to west is 45 kilometres, and that from north to south 38 kilometres.
... Berlin, with an area of 892 square kilometres, is almost nine times as big as Paris?
... Berlin has approximately the same latitude as London and the same longitude as Naples in Italy?
... at 368 metres, the Berlin TV Tower is the tallest building in Germany?
... the new solar plant at Messe Berlin puts the capital at the fourth place as far as Germany's largest rooftop solar plants are concerned? Over the next two years, a system with 15,000 photovoltaic modules and a total output of up to six megawatts will be installed on an area of approximately 50,000 square metres on more than 20 halls of the grounds at the Radio Tower. This will allow Messe Berlin to avoid 1,900 tonnes of CO2 per year.
... Berlin has between 960 and 2,100 bridges? Of course, this would depend on what you mean by a bridge. More than 600 of these cross over waterways, which means Berlin easily beats Venice. The oldest bridge is the Jungfernbrücke, built in 1798 and largely preserved in its original form.
... Europe's first traffic lights were put into operation on Potsdamer Platz in 1924? It is still possible to visit a replica of the traffic light tower there today.
... the Quadriga on the Brandenburg Gate was taken to France by Napoleon in 1806? He had the Berlin landmark taken away as a symbol of his victory over Prussia in the Battle of Auerstedt. It was brought back to Berlin in 1814 after the victory of the European allies over Napoleon. Since then, the quadriga has been popularly known as the "Retourkutsche". However contrary to rumours, the Quadriga has always faced eastwards - i.e. towards the city in old Berlin.
... many names in the city go back to the Prussian kings from the House of Hohenzollern, and only a few first names among them have been in use over the last 300 years? These include, for example, Friedrichstadt and Friedrichstraße, Friedrichstadt-Palast and Friedrichswerder, Friedrichshain, Friedrichsfelde, Friedrichshagen, Wilhelmstraße and Wilhelmshagen.
... the Berlin football club Hertha BSC, founded in 1892, is named after a pleasure boat, which one of the co-founders had taken a trip on with his father?
... in the olden days, the city of Berlin ended at the Brandenburg Gate? This historic city boundary can still be identified from street names such as Wallstraße, Mauerstraße, Linienstraße or Palisadenstraße. The former city gates are mainly preserved in the names of underground stations - Schlesisches Tor, Kottbusser Tor, Hallesches Tor and Oranienburger Tor.
... the city reached its population peak in 1942? At that time, 4,478,102 people were living in Berlin. Today, the figure is around 3.9 million.
... seven American presidents have visited Berlin after the war? John F. Kennedy's statement "Ich bin ein Berliner" [I am a Berliner] (1963) and Ronald Reagan's emphatic appeal "Mr. Gorbachev - Reißen Sie diese Mauer ein!" [Mr. Gorbachev - Tear down this wall!] (1987) has remained etched in people's minds.
... visitors who wanted to go from the western part of the city to the eastern part during the Wall era had to exchange at least 25 Deutschmarks per day for GDR marks at an exchange rate of 1:1? Money that was not spent could not be exchanged back. However, it could be "deposited" at the border branches of the GDR's state bank when leaving the country and collected again when entering the country. For tourists from West Germany, the visa cost five DM, whereas it was free for West Berliners.

Life in Berlin

... Berlin is one of the most multicultural cities in Germany? At the end of 2022, around 3.85 million people were living here, which was almost 75,000 more than in 2021. Of them, 24.3 per cent have a foreign passport. People from 190 nations live in the city, including around 101,000 Turkish and 54,000 Polish citizens. Almost 57,500 people have migrated from Ukraine.
... in the winter semester of 2022/23, a total of around 198,400 students are expected to have enrolled at the four universities, four universities of applied sciences and 30 private universities in Berlin? This is 2.7 per cent lower than the previous winter semester. The reason: One university relocated to another federal state. The number of foreign students, on the other hand, has shot up to 46,345.
... the largest departmental store in continental Europe is the Berlin Kaufhaus des Westens, better known as KaDeWe, founded in 1907? The sales area on six floors is more than 60,000 square metres, which is the equivalent of eight football pitches. 64 escalators and 26 lifts transport more than 50,000 people every day, and during the Christmas season, even twice as many. The gourmet department here is famous. It covers 7,000 square metres, offers around 34,000 different products and is the largest food department in Europe. A department store in flux: Since the year 2016, the interior of KaDeWe has been fundamentally restructured and divided into quadrants under the supervision of architect Rem Koolhaas and his studio OMA. The completion of the project could be celebrated in November 2022, right in time for the 115th anniversary.
... there are over 150 weekly markets and flea markets in the Berlin area? The "Turkish Market" on Maybachufer in Neukölln is particularly popular, offering a colourful assortment of fruit and vegetables, Turkish specialities and colourful fabrics. Many visitors are drawn to Winterfeldtplatz in Schöneberg and Kollwitzplatz in Prenzlauer Berg. The offering there ranges from organic products and specialities from many countries to felt shoes, handicrafts and natural cosmetics.

More Fun Facts

... the feet of the "Goldelse" on top of the Siegessäule are 92 cm long? In other words, that would be the equivalent of a shoe size 138!
... the people of Berlin are real dog lovers? Around 126,300 dogs are registered in the city.
... Berlin is a city of inventors? Many useful things that have become an integral part of our daily lives originated in Berlin. Among them are the computer, the thermos flask and the torch.
... the international distress signal SOS was adopted at the International Radio Conference in Berlin in 1906?

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Sights of Berlin

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Sights of Berlin. Elżbieta Tekiela Praca w ramach projektu : „Krok naprzód – nauczyciel jutra”. Germany. Germany is a quite big country in Central Europe and also the founding member of the European Union. This country has nine neighbors.

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Sights of Berlin Elżbieta Tekiela Praca w ramach projektu : „Krok naprzód – nauczyciel jutra”

Germany Germany is a quite big country in Central Europe and also the founding member of the European Union.

This country has nine neighbors. It is bordered to the north by Denmark, to the east by Poland and Czech Republic, to the south by Austria and Switzerland, and to the west by France, Luxembourg, Belgium and the Netherlands.

Saxony Switzerland Bavarian Alps Baltic Sea North Sea Black Forest Germany is a country rich in history. It also has a wide range of different landscapes: sandy beaches on the North and Baltic Seas, and the snow-covered Alps in the south.

Germany is a federation consisting of 16 federal states, each with its own constitution, parliament and government. German States 1.Baden-Württemberg 2.Bavaria (Bayern) 3.Berlin (city-state) 4.Brandenburg 5.Bremen (city-state) 6.Hamburg (city-state) 7.Hesse (Hessen) 8.Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania (Mecklenburg-Vorpommern) 9.Lower Saxony (Niedersachsen) 10.North Rhine-Westphalia (Nordrhein-Westfalen) 11.Rhineland-Palatinate (Rheinland-Pfalz) 12.Saarland 13.Saxony (Sachsen) 14.Saxony-Anhalt (Sachsen-Anhalt) 15.Schleswig-Holstein 16.Thuringia (Thüringen)

German is the official language of: Germany Austria Switzerland Liechtenstein Luxembourg Belgium Opole Voivodeship, Poland City of Sopron, Hungary Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol Knowledge of German in the Europe The official language is German. German is the mother tongue of 100 million people. German is the mother tongue spoken most frequently in the European Union.

The capital city of Germany is Berlin. It is the biggest city of Germany and has a population of about 3.5 million.

Berlin extends over 889 square kilometers. It is located in central Europe at the rivers Spree and Havel. The local time zone is Central European Time. Flag Coat of arms

Historical Note Berlin was the capital of Prussia until 1945 and the capital of Germany between 1871 and 1945 and again since the reunification of Germany on October 3, 1990. The German parliament, called Bundestag, and the German government moved from Bonn to Berlin in 1999. Between 1949 and 1990, it was divided into East Berlin, the capital of the German Democratic Republic, and West Berlin. It was divided by the Berlin Wall between August 13, 1961, and November 9, 1989.

Since 1990, Berlin has once again been the undivided capital city. But You will still recognize that there is/was East-Berlin and West-Berlin so it has a "City East" and a "City West".

Map of Berlin

Berlin Mitte (Berlin city center) is the city's historic core and comes up with the most famous landmarks and most visited sights of Berlin, including the Brandenburg Gate and the Reichstag, Unter den Linden Boulevard, Potsdamer Platz and the Alexanderplatz with the TV Tower.

Brandenburg Gate The Brandenburg Gate is the true symbol of the city,because it was situated in the no man's land just behind the Wall, it also became the symbol of the division of the city. After the Fall of the Wall, the Gate was reopened onDecember 22, 1989. Pariser Platz and Brandenburg Gate Brandenburg Gate at night

The Reichstag at night ReichstagParliament and Mirror of German History View on the terrace The Reichstag is the seat of the German Bundestag or federal government and, with its new dome, one of the Berlin's biggest crowd-draws.

Roof of the Sony-Center at night View at the Potsdamer Platz. On the left side theDaimler-Chrysler, on the right the Sony-Center Potsdamer Platz Potsdamer Platz is one of the most popular attractions of the New Berlin. It is unquestionably the fastest developing place in Berlin It boasts fantastic, modern skyscrapers such as: impressive Daimler-City with numerous cafes, restaurants, the biggest Shopping Centre as well as steelandglass Sony-Centre consisting of seven separated buildings with offices, apartments, cinemas and a film studio.

Alexanderplatz • Alexanderplatz is the most famous square in Berlin. There is also the World Time Clock which shows the time around the globe The World Time Clock Fernsehturm, seen from Alexanderplatz

FernsehturmTV Tower The Fernsehturm is one of Berlin's biggest attractions. It is the highest building in the city. Its total height is 368 meters.The TV Tower has a rotating restaurant on the top (Telecafé), which offers a great view of the city. Telecafe turns on its own axis every hour.

Shopping activities in Berlin Berlin is a city in which there is a lot to see and do. Today Berlin is a metropolis of diversity with elegant clubs, galleries and traditional restaurants. It is also a heaven for shoppers.

Friedrichstraße Flair and Elegance Coffeehouse at the Ku'damm Kurfürstendamm (Ku'damm), Unter den Linden and Friedrichstrasse are the main shopping areas and attractions Berlin. Unter den Linden Berlin's magnificent boulevard, the centrepiece of the Old Berlin

Checkpoint CharlieMemories of a Divided City The reconstructed frontier house in front of the museum Friedrichstraße at the Checkpoint Charlie From 1961 to 1990, Checkpoint Charlie in the Friedrichstraße was the only border crossing point between East and West Berlin. Itwas the place where Soviet and American tanks stood face to face, after the construction of the Wall in 1961. The museum Haus am Checkpoint Charlie tells the history of the Wall.

Checkpoint Charlie, once the gateway for non-Germans during the Cold War chronicles in the Wall Museum the time of Berlin Wall and the escapes from GDR - the Museum belongs definitely to the very interesting attractions of Berlin The Berlin Wall

Denkmal für die ermordeten Juden EuropasPlace of Remembrance View on the memorial The Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe is the central place of remembrance and a place of warning. Situated in Berlin’s city centre, the memorial was built near the Reichstag and the Brandenburger Gate.

GendarmenmarktEurope's Most Beautiful Square Gendarmenmarkt is one of the most beautiful squares in Europe Classic Open Air Lively Gendarmenmarkt The Gendarmenmarkt during Christmas

Free-time activities in Berlin The Tiergartenis the oldest and most popular park, stretching from the Zoologischer Garten (one of the largest zoos in the world) to the Brandenburg Gate. Another nice option is Schloss Charlottenburg, a Baroque castle surrounded by English gardens. The zoological garden, one of the largest in the world.

TiergartenBerlin's green heart Tiergarten is the largest park in Berlin and a popular outdoor oasis for Berliners. The park is used by many Berliners for relaxation. Once a year, the Loveparade makes its way through the Tiergarten. On the western side, the park borders onto the Zoologic Garden.

This view of the Straße des 17. Juni cutting through the Tiergarten park was takenfrom atop the Siegessäule (Victory Column). In the background you can see theBrandenburg Gate and the TV tower (left)in what used to be East Berlin. The Tiergarten park und die Straße des 17. Juni

SiegessäuleThe Victory Statue The Siegessäule, with its golden statue of Victory, is one of the most imposing landmarks in the city, and reflects the city's history in remarkable fashion. The golden godess of victory

Charlottenburg Castle The illuminated Schloss Charlottenburg Schloss Charlottenburg Charlottenburg Castle, which was built at the end of the 17th century, was a gift from Frederick III to his wife Sophie Charlotte, who soon made the palace the intellectual centre of Berlin. The castle at winter-time

Berliner Dom (Berlin Cathedral) The Berlin Cathedral is the largest Protestant church in Germany. It is located near to the World Heritage of Berlin "Museumsinsel”.

Flowers in Botanischer Garten The conservatory In the conservatories Botanical Garden With over 18,000 species of plants in an area of around 42 hectares. The Botanical Garden in Berlin is the largest in Europe. In the large Tropical Conservatory you will find the giant bamboo, for example, unusual varieties of orchids, water lilies and other exotic plants.

Culture attractions of Berlin • 150 theatres, 170 museums and three operas • Fans of history and art shouldn’t miss the huge Museum Island (Museumsinsel). That museum complex of five museums was added to the German World Heritage list in 1999 and is situated on an island in the heart of Berlin

The Ishtar Gate of Babylon at Pergamon Museum Altes Museum The National Gallery The Museum Island includes the National Gallery, the Old Museum with a collection of paintings, New Museum, the immense Pergamon Museum and The Bode Museum (exhibits of Egyptian artifacts). The Pergamonmuseum

Castle and Garden of Potsdam A must-do in Berlin is a visit at Potsdam Sanssouci Castle, which is the next World Heritage to Berlin. Potsdam is located only 45 minutes away by car.

Summary In this short presentation I showed you the most interesting, in my opinion, places in the capital city of Germany. I hope you enjoyed it and now Berlin is on the top of your list of places you want to visit.

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Berlin Was a Beacon of Artistic Freedom. Gaza Changed Everything.

The home of boundary-pushing artists from around the world has been upended by debates about what can and can’t be said about Israel and the war.

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By Jason Farago

Reporting from Berlin

April 6, 2024

When the musician Laurie Anderson was beginning her career in the early 1970s, an avant-garde artist who wanted to work at scale had to go abroad — to one place in particular.

“I got my start in Germany, because of state-supported art,” recalled Anderson, who exhibited at its national museums and performed with its symphony orchestras when she was still an emerging talent. She lived for a time in West Berlin. She met Lou Reed, her future husband and a sometime Berliner himself, in Germany in 1992.

Fitting, then, that she would accept a prestigious guest professorship this year at a German art school. Then, in late January, a local blogger fulminated after finding her signature among 16,000 names on a two-year-old open letter that denounced “apartheid” in Israel and the Palestinian territories. The university then called, seeking explanations. Rather than distill her thoughts about “this unbelievably tragic war” into the kind of public statement they seemed to want, she withdrew. “It did teach me that I didn’t really want to have that kind of sponsorship,” she concluded. “If I’d known they were going to ask things like that, I never would have accepted that job in the first place.”

She’s far from the only artist who finds herself unsure of her welcome here these days. The arts scene in Germany — and especially Berlin — has been turned upside down by Hamas’s attacks in Israel on Oct. 7, and the siege and bombardment of Gaza.

Prizes have been rescinded. Conferences called off. Plays taken off the boards. Government cultural officials have suggested tying funding to what artists and institutions say about the conflict, and media — both traditional and social — bubble with public denunciations of this writer, that artist, this D.J., that dancer. The disinvitations have brought counter-boycotts. And a climate of fear and recrimination has put Berlin’s status as an international cultural capital in greater hazard than at any time since 1989.

Berlin had once been the artistic beacon of all Europe, but what’s happening here today is a very German story. The country’s responsibility for the Holocaust still defines a cultural sector whose institutions are committed to a national process of reckoning and atonement. That culture of remembrance also undergirds Germany’s staunch support for Israel, and the strict limits it places on criticisms of its ally. (Only recently has the rising toll in Gaza prompted some German leaders to question their unwavering support. ) So while artists around the world — from the stage of the Oscars to the Whitney Biennial — have been vocal about the war, in Germany such statements can have a major cost: canceled performances, lost funding, and accusations of antisemitism in a society where no charge is more serious.

“Berlin was broke, but a community was there,” said the electroclash star Peaches, who has lived here since 2000, when we met up for breakfast in Prenzlauer Berg. I asked her what’s changed lately, and she noted how risk-taking institutions were already running scared amid threats to funding. “What was going on here was openness to all these intersections. And since the last few months, there’s been a lot of that taken away.”

Peaches, in furry boots and a shirt-dress that says “Slay,” reclines on an orange sofa.

That sense of new limitations, new controls, new anxieties, is already exacting a price on culture in a city that had made a welcome of artists into its post-Wall calling card.

“ This angst makes it harder for us to work internationally, attract the best talent on the highest level and bring diverse audiences together,” said Klaus Biesenbach, the director of the Neue Nationalgalerie, who previously led museums in New York and Los Angeles. “If the artists leave, one of the last real bonuses that Berlin has would be gone.”

The cancellations, postponements and uproars have hit every cultural sector, with anger and accusations coming from as high as the chancellery. The Berlin International Film Festival saw withdrawals and protests this year — and after its closing ceremony, at which several laureates called for a cease-fire in Gaza, federal and state officials issued threats to withhold future support.

D.J.s have been dropped from lineups at Berghain and other clubs, sometimes after posting anti-Israeli statements, but often for much milder support for Palestinian lives.

The Maxim Gorki Theater, one of the city’s most acclaimed playhouses, canceled a prizewinning play about Israelis and Palestinians in Berlin — leading several intellectuals and artists to cancel appearances there in turn.

In the galleries of the KW Institute for Contemporary Art, a hub for the city’s art scene, recently shipped sculptures are sitting in unpacked crates. Their creators now refuse to exhibit in Germany to protest what they describe as restrictions of speech supporting Palestinians.

Some cultural leaders are raising alarms. In January, the Berlin state government proposed a new funding clause that would require grantees to sign a document opposing “any form of antisemitism” — and used a definition that listed certain criticisms of Israeli policy as antisemitic. Artists protested, and the proposal was withdrawn, but the outgoing director of the Goethe-Institut, which promotes German language and literature abroad, fretted in Der Spiegel that “longstanding partners in the international cultural world are losing confidence in the liberalism of German democracy.”

For many artists, especially foreigners who settled in Berlin as a place of freedom and cultural abundance, the very survival of the city as an artistic capital is in doubt, or perhaps already gone.

“Berlin, in my view, is not a place where artists can create freely,” said Ai Weiwei, the Chinese artist and dissident, who keeps a studio in Berlin but no longer lives here. “Whenever I hear about German government officials imposing restrictions on artists’ freedom of speech, or expression, it fills me with despair.”

It’s of course not just in the capital. The Frankfurt Book Fair “indefinitely postponed” a prize ceremony for Adania Shibli, an acclaimed Palestinian writer and Berlin resident. The city of Bremen reneged on its own prize ceremony for the Jewish writer Masha Gessen over an essay comparing Gaza to the ghettos of Nazi-occupied cities. The Berlin-based artists Jumana Manna, who is Palestinian, and Candice Breitz, who is Jewish, both had exhibitions at regional museums canceled on the grounds of (as usual) controversial social media posts. Even Greta Thunberg, the climate Cassandra, has been canceled in Germany after wearing a kaffiyeh and calling for a cease-fire at a recent protest.

But it is Berlin that stands to lose the most from all these disinvitations and denunciations, and from the larger malaise in German democracy from which they spring. The success of the far-right Alternative for Germany party, and the broader advance of the populist right in Europe, have shaken postwar and post-Wall norms of historical responsibility. The arrival of a million refugees from Syria and elsewhere in 2015 continues to shape ongoing debates about who is a German. New spending freezes and austerity budgets , triggered by restrictions on government debt, spell trouble for a capital that still has three major opera houses.

All this while indisputably antisemitic rhetoric, and even violence, have been rising in Germany. In October, masked assailants chucked Molotov cocktails at a synagogue (they missed; no one was hurt). Anti-Jewish slurs and stars of David were painted on government buildings and residences.

When pro-Palestinian activists came to the Hamburger Bahnhof, one of Berlin’s leading institutions for contemporary art, and shouted down the director of one of the country’s Jewish museums with slogans such as “Zionism is a crime,” they affirmed the belief of many here that anti-Israeli rhetoric is just a step away from antisemitism.

Against that backdrop, some Jewish Berliners see criticism of Israel as much more than a foreign policy dispute. “I’m an aggressive Zionist for only one reason: because I want to survive,” Maxim Biller, the author of the novel “Mama Odessa” and one of the country’s leading columnists, told me over coffee. “And I can be a German writer with a Jewish project here only because there is a state of Israel.”

Naturally there is a German compound noun for that interdependence, endlessly slung around and debated in the last few months. The word is Staatsräson , or “reason of state”: a national interest that is not just nonnegotiable but existential, defining the state as such. Angela Merkel, the former chancellor, described Israel’s security as Germany’s Staatsräson in a historic address to the Knesset in 2008. Her successor, Olaf Scholz, has repeatedly invoked Staatsräson in his defenses of Israeli policy since Oct. 7.

“ Staatsräson means: The existence of Israel is a condition of possibility for the existence of Germany,” explained Johannes von Moltke, a professor of German cultural history at the University of Michigan, who’s currently in Berlin. “Because if there is no Israel, then Germany’s guilt is all-consuming again. And you can’t countenance that possibility.”

In other words, the cultural crackup of the last few months only appears to be part of an international conflict. It is, in fact, resolutely German. What is really being fought over here is a hazy, transcendent national concept that, since Oct. 7, has overtaken more firmly constitutional principles of free expression and free association.

The tensions have been building since at least 2019, when the federal Parliament adopted a resolution designating the movement calling for a boycott of Israel as antisemitic , and urging local governments and “public stakeholders” not to fund organizations or individuals that support it. That makes a big difference here, since so many artists, writers and musicians receive generous government aid. The resolution, though nonbinding, led some cultural institutions to rescind invitations to critics of Israeli policy, and many more to take a hesitant approach.

“People in cultural institutions are risk-averse,” said Tobias Haberkorn, who edits the Berlin Review , a new literary publication. “So if they have to decide, ‘Am I going to invite this or that artist with a Middle Eastern background, or not?’ I can very well see them not inviting them. Just to avoid the potential hassle.”

Since Oct. 7, accusations of antisemitism have flown much more broadly. Some are merited. Many others are dubious. Quite a number of those accused of antisemitism have been Jewish, such as Gessen.

“There are many Jewish perspectives, and that is not being honored here in a country where the history cannot be excused,” said Peaches, who is also Jewish. “For any progressive Jewish person who is thinking about what is going on, and understanding the history of what is going on, to be called antisemitic — by Germans — is ridiculous. Never did I think in 2024 that I would be thinking about that.”

Yet it’s worth pointing out how few of these accusations revolve around cultural production. It is rare for Berlin’s theaters or festivals to cancel someone for what they actually sing or paint or film. What gets you now are statements, posts, likes, signatures: the imperatives of social media, which are swallowing culture wholesale. Once debates like this would have played out in Germany’s elite press, where intellectuals clashed over the country’s moral responsibility to the past. Today the national papers, and the institutions too, are playing catch-up to Ruhrbarone, a small website from the provincial city of Bochum that took down Anderson and many others.

Perhaps the lowest point yet came at the end of this year’s film festival, when numerous prizewinners called for a cease-fire in Gaza; two went further, using the words “genocide” and “apartheid” to describe Israel’s actions. That prompted Germany’s culture minister, Claudia Roth, to announce an inquiry into the film festival’s governance. In a subsequent interview with Der Spiegel , Roth said that “the freedom of the arts includes curatorial responsibility,” and suggested that the festival’s organizers had to ask themselves: “Which films are being selected? How are the juries appointed?”

The festival’s outgoing artistic director, Carlo Chatrian, hit back at that government interference in an open letter , accusing German officials and news organizations of rhetoric that “weaponizes and instrumentalizes antisemitism for political means.”

Surely this city ought to have learned by now that directing culture toward political ends rarely ends well. Those who have forgotten might take a walk over to the Gendarmenmarkt, a grand central square now gashed by construction barriers, and its monumental statue of a German playwright and philosopher with a rather subtler understanding of how culture and government inform each other. His name was Friedrich Schiller, and what he saw was that the arts were not aristocratic luxuries, not decorations; they were the very motor of human freedom. The arts, Schiller taught his fellow Germans in 1795 , “enjoy an absolute immunity from human capriciousness. The political legislator can bar the way to its domain, but he cannot rule within it.”

This freedom of the arts still defines Berlin, which knows better than most cities what dangers lurk when they are overregulated. It defined the Weimar period, when Otto Dix caricatured the powerful and August Sander photographed society without embellishment. And the postwar era, when novelists forged a new German literature in a register that definitively broke from the Nazi past. And also the Cold War, when punk bands on either side of the Wall made music in defiance of national aims. And especially the heady years after reunification, when a global generation of designers and D.J.s reestablished the unlovely city as Europe’s beating heart.

Lose that cultural freedom and you lose much more than a “scene.” You lose the very ground — the ground of sympathetic imagination — upon which you combat antisemitism and all other forms of bigotry. “The opportunity to experiment for creatives and artists from all over the world is one of the most important things Berlin still has going for it,” said Biesenbach. “We need to protect it.”

Jason Farago , a critic at large for The Times, writes about art and culture in the U.S. and abroad. More about Jason Farago

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Israel said that it had withdrawn a division of ground troops from southern Gaza, raising questions about its plans as the war reached the six-month mark.

The Israeli military said that it had recovered the body of a hostage who was abducted from a kibbutz during the Hamas-led Oct. 7 attack and held in Gaza.

Khobeza, a spinach-like wild plant , has become a lifeline in Gaza at a time when most food is largely unavailable or expensive.

Challenging Democratic Leaders: Protests over the Biden administration’s handling of the war in Gaza are disrupting the activities of Democratic officials, complicating their ability to campaign during a pivotal election year .

Germany’s Upended Arts Scene: Berlin, the home of boundary-pushing artists from around the world, has been turned upside down by debates about what can and can’t be said about Israel and the war in Gaza .

Internal Roil at TikTok: TikTok has been dogged by accusations that its app has shown a disproportionate amount of pro-Palestinian and antisemitic content to users. Some of the same tensions have also played out inside the company.

Palestinian Detainees: Israel has imprisoned more than 9,000 Palestinians suspected of militant activity . Rights groups say that some have been abused or held without charges.

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Nicaragua Is Taking Germany to Court Over Claim It’s Aiding Israel’s ‘Genocide’

THE HAGUE, Netherlands — Nicaragua on Monday called on the United Nations' top court to halt German military and other aid to Israel, arguing that Berlin's support was enabling acts of genocide and breaches of international humanitarian law in the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza.

Opening Nicaragua's case at the International Court of Justice, the country's ambassador to the Netherlands, Carlos José Argüello Gómez, told the 16-judge panel that “Germany is failing to honor its own obligation to prevent genocide or to ensure respect of international humanitarian law.”

While the case brought by Nicaragua centers on Germany, it indirectly takes aim at Israel’s military campaign in Gaza following the deadly Oct. 7 attacks when Hamas-led militants stormed into southern Israel, killing some 1,200 people. More than 33,000 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza, according to the territory’s Health Ministry. Its toll doesn’t differentiate between civilians and combatants, but it has said women and children make up the majority of the dead.

Israel strongly denies that its assault amounts to genocidal acts, saying it is acting in self defense. Israeli legal adviser Tal Becker told judges at the court earlier this year that the country is fighting a “war it did not start and did not want.”

Read More: What to Know About South Africa’s Genocide Case Against Israel

But Nicaragua rejected that defense, in a reference to Germany's support for Israel.

“Surprisingly, Germany seems not to be able to differentiate between self-defense and genocide,” Argüello Gómez said.

Germany, whose lawyers will address the court Tuesday morning, rejects the case brought by Nicaragua.

“Germany has breached neither the Genocide Convention nor international humanitarian law, and we will set this out in detail before the International Court of Justice,” German Foreign Ministry spokesperson Sebastian Fischer told reporters in Berlin on Friday.

Nicaragua has asked the court to hand down preliminary orders known as provisional measures, including that Germany “immediately suspend its aid to Israel, in particular its military assistance including military equipment in so far as this aid may be used in the violation of the Genocide Convention” and international law.

It also wants the court to order Germany to resume funding to the United Nations aid agency in Gaza in addition to the aid Berlin is already providing.

“It is indeed a pathetic excuse to the Palestinian children, women and men in Gaza to provide humanitarian aid, including through airdrops, on the one hand, and to furnish the weapons and military equipment that are used to kill and annihilate them" and humanitarian workers, Nicaragua lawyer Daniel Müller told judges.

The court will likely take weeks to deliver its preliminary decision, and Nicaragua’s case will probably drag on for years.

Monday’s hearing at the world court came amid growing calls for allies to stop supplying arms to Israel as its six-month campaign continues to lay waste to Gaza.

On Friday, the U.N.’s top human rights body called on countries to stop selling or shipping weapons to Israel. The United States and Germany opposed the resolution.

Also, hundreds of British jurists, including three retired Supreme Court judges, have called on their government to suspend arms sales to Israel after three U.K. citizens were among seven aid workers from the charity World Central Kitchen killed in Israeli strikes . Israel said the attack on the aid workers was a mistake caused by “misidentification.”

Germany has for decades been a staunch supporter of Israel . Days after the Oct. 7 attack by Hamas, Chancellor Olaf Scholz explained why: “Our own history, our responsibility arising from the Holocaust, makes it a perpetual task for us to stand up for the security of the state of Israel,” he told lawmakers.

Berlin, however, has gradually shifted its tone as civilian casualties in Gaza have soared, becoming increasingly critical of the humanitarian situation in Gaza and speaking out against a ground offensive in Rafah.

Nicaragua’s government, which has historical links with Palestinian organizations dating back to their support for the 1979 Sandinista revolution, was itself accused earlier this year by U.N.-backed human rights experts of systematic human rights abuses “tantamount to crimes against humanity.” The government of President Daniel Ortega fiercely rejected the allegations.

In January, the ICJ imposed provisional measures ordering Israel to do all it can to prevent death, destruction and acts of genocide in Gaza. The orders came in a case filed by South Africa accusing Israel of breaching the Genocide Convention.

On March 28, the court ordered Israel to take measures to improve the humanitarian situation in Gaza, including opening more land crossings to allow food, water, fuel and other supplies into the war-ravaged enclave.

Associated Press writer Geir Moulson in Berlin contributed to this report.

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Nicaragua urges top UN court to halt German military aid to Israel because of its assault in Gaza

Judge Nawaf Salam, third right, speaks at the start of a two days hearing at the World Court in The Hague, Netherlands, Monday, April 8, 2024, in a case brought by Nicaragua accusing Germany of breaching the genocide convention by providing arms and support to Israel. (AP Photo/Patrick Post)

Nicaragua’s Ambassador Carlos Jose Arguello Gomez, right, and Alain Pellet, lef, a lawyer representing Nicaragua, wait for the start of a two days hearing at the World Court in The Hague, Netherlands, Monday, April 8, 2024, in a case brought by Nicaragua accusing Germany of breaching the genocide convention by providing arms and support to Israel. (AP Photo/Patrick Post)

A pro-Palestinian activist works on a protest poster near the International Court of Justice, or World Court, in The Hague, Netherlands, Monday, April 8, 2024, prior to the start of a two days hearing in a case brought by Nicaragua accusing Germany of breaching the genocide convention by providing arms and support to Israel. (AP Photo/Patrick Post)

Tania von Uslar-Gleichen, Germany’s legal adviser and Director-General for Legal Affairs of the German Foreign Ministry, center, shakes hands with Alain Pellet, left, a lawyer representing Nicaragua, prior to the start of a two days hearing at the World Court in The Hague, Netherlands, Monday, April 8, 2024, in a case brought by Nicaragua accusing Germany of breaching the genocide convention by providing arms and support to Israel. (AP Photo/Patrick Post)

Judge Nawaf Salam, center, speaks at the start of a two days hearing at the World Court in The Hague, Netherlands, Monday, April 8, 2024, in a case brought by Nicaragua accusing Germany of breaching the genocide convention by providing arms and support to Israel. (AP Photo/Patrick Post)

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THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Nicaragua called on the United Nations’ top court on Monday to halt German military aid to Israel, arguing that Berlin’s support enables acts of genocide and breaches of international humanitarian law in Gaza .

The case at the International Court of Justice is against Germany, which is the second-largest supplier of arms to Israel after the U.S., but it also indirectly takes aim at Israel’s 6-month-old military campaign, which has left tens of thousands of Palestinians dead and devastated Gaza.

Nicaragua’s allegations represent the latest legal attempt by a country with historic ties to the Palestinian people to stop Israel’s offensive, after South Africa accused Israel of genocide at the court late last year. They also come amid growing calls for Israel’s allies to stop supplying the country with weapons — and as some supporters, including Germany, have grown more critical of the war.

Nicaragua’s Ambassador to the Netherlands, Carlos José Argüello Gómez, told the 16-judge panel that “Germany is failing to honor its own obligation to prevent genocide or to ensure respect of international humanitarian law.”

Israeli soldiers rest on top of their tank on the border with the Gaza Strip, in southern Israel, Monday, April 8, 2024. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)

Germany will present its arguments Tuesday. The head of its legal team, Tania von Uslar-Gleichen, called Nicaragua’s case “grossly biased” and denied that Berlin is breaching international law.

Israel strongly denies that its assault amounts to genocidal acts, saying it is acting in self defense after Hamas-led militants stormed into southern Israel on Oct. 7 , killing some 1,200 people. Israeli legal adviser Tal Becker told judges at the court earlier this year in the case brought by South Africa that Israel is fighting a “war it did not start and did not want.”

Since then, more than 33,000 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza, according to the territory’s Health Ministry. Its toll doesn’t differentiate between civilians and combatants, but it has said women and children make up the majority of the dead.

The court will likely take weeks to deliver its preliminary decision, and Nicaragua’s case will probably drag on for years.

According to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, German is second only to the U.S. in supplying arms to Israel — but it would be harder, if not impossible, for the U.S. to be brought before the court because Washington does not recognize the ICJ’s power to compel countries to appear before it. The U.S. also has not signed a protocol to the Genocide Convention that allows countries to bring disputes to the court.

Nicaragua, nevertheless, sought to include U.S. arms supplies in its case, saying that Berlin and Washington collaborate on some military programs. Argüello Gómez urged the court to include U.S. supplies in its preliminary orders, known as provisional measures.

Nicaragua has asked the court to order Germany to “immediately suspend its aid to Israel, in particular its military assistance including military equipment in so far as this aid may be used in the violation of the Genocide Convention” and international law.

It also wants the court to order Germany to resume funding to the United Nations aid agency in Gaza in addition to the aid Berlin is already providing.

“It is indeed a pathetic excuse to the Palestinian children, women and men in Gaza to provide humanitarian aid, including through airdrops, on the one hand, and to furnish the weapons and military equipment that are used to kill and annihilate them” and humanitarian workers, Nicaragua lawyer Daniel Müller told judges.

Dozens of flag-waving pro-Palestinian protesters demonstrated outside the court.

Sliman Abu Amara, a Dutch citizen of Palestinian descent, said he was grateful to Nicaragua for taking Germany to court, noting “the irony is that Germany is actually behind the whole international convention on preventing the genocide.”

On Friday, the U.N.’s top human rights body called on countries to stop selling or shipping weapons to Israel. The United States and Germany opposed the resolution.

Meanwhile, hundreds of British jurists, including three retired Supreme Court judges, have called on their government to suspend arms sales to Israel after seven aid workers from the charity World Central Kitchen, including three U.K. citizens, were killed in Israeli strikes . Israel said the attack was a mistake and dismissed two officers , while reprimanding others.

Germany has for decades been a staunch supporter of Israel . Days after the Oct. 7 attack by Hamas, Chancellor Olaf Scholz explained: “Our own history, our responsibility arising from the Holocaust, makes it a perpetual task for us to stand up for the security of the state of Israel,” he told lawmakers.

In response to the case brought by South Africa, the ICJ ordered Israel in January to do all it can to prevent death, destruction and acts of genocide in Gaza.

In March, the court ordered Israel to take measures to improve the humanitarian situation in Gaza, where experts say a famine is imminent .

Associated Press writer Geir Moulson in Berlin contributed to this report.

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“We were looking for a crime story in a location whose history and social values contributed to the crime,” Berlinger says, who is in year four of a multi-year deal with Netflix. “Berlin is world famous for its all night party life and that electronic music and whatnot. That’s a function of its history. So, it’s how the history of Berlin directly relates to how these killings took place. We are always looking for a story that has those social and geographic aspects to them. That’s why it makes sense to go around the world with this series.”

The idea to take the franchise to international territories came about in early 2021 after the first season of Berlinger’s “Crime Scene: The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel” debuted. About the real-life mysterious disappearance, subsequent death and conspiracy theories surrounding tourist Elisa Lam at the Cecil Hotel in downtown Los Angeles, the inaugural series drew in, according to Netflix, 45 million households in the first four weeks of its debut.

Those numbers convinced Netflix, specifically the company’s VP nonfiction sports and former documentary series director, Gabe Spitzer, to not only greenlight three additional seasons of the “Crime Scene” franchise, but also explore taking the series to Netflix’s international markets for global consumption.

Tschurtschenthaler says that the decision to focus on the several mysterious Berlin nightlife murders took some time but ultimately made the most sense.

“We were originally looking at something (that happened) during October Fest, but at the end of the day we decided to go into nightlife and into something that Berlin is world famous for,” says Tschurtschenthaler. “It was a story that would speak to not only German audiences, but also to an international audience.”

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Earlier this year Germany’s environment ministry raised the possibility of stricter limits on the import of hunting trophies over poaching concerns. But a ban on the import of hunting trophies would only impoverish Botswanans, Mokgweetsi Masisi told German daily Bild .

The African leader argued that conservation efforts have led to an explosion in the number of elephants and that hunting is an important means to keep them in check. Botswana banned trophy hunting in 2014 but lifted the restrictions in 2019 under pressure from local communities. The country now issues annual hunting quotas.

Herds of elephants were causing damage to property, eating crops and trampling residents, Masisi told the German paper.

“It is very easy to sit in Berlin and have an opinion about our affairs in Botswana. We are paying the price for preserving these animals for the world,” he said.

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“This is not a joke,” said Masisi, whose country has seen its elephant population grow to some 130,000.

Botswana, home of the world’s largest elephant population, has already offered 8,000 elephants to Angola and another 500 to Mozambique, as it seeks to tackle what Masisi described as “overpopulation”. Officials in March also threatened to send 10,000 elephants to London .

“We would like to offer such a gift to Germany ,” Masisi said, adding that he would “not take no for an answer”.

A spokesperson for the environment ministry in Berlin said Botswana had not raised any concerns with Germany on the matter.

The ministry remained in talks with African countries affected by import rules, including Botswana, the spokesperson said.

“In light of the alarming loss of biological diversity, we have a special responsibility to do everything to ensure the import of hunting trophies is sustainable and legal,” she said.

Germany was one of the largest importers of hunting trophies in the European Union, she said.

African elephant hunting trophies already require import authorisation under current rules, she added.

Discussions within the EU on harsher import restrictions are focused on extending the list of protected species, she said.

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