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RR44-1--From July 19 to 21, six PAX men went into Berlin. This is the MCC house
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RR44-2--Tempelhof airport, where all the planes landed while supplying the city with food and everything else during the Russian blockade of Berlin
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RR44-3--The Tempelhof airport field where a plane landed every few minutes
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RR44-4--The three points on this monument are for the three countries that participated in the airlift, France, England, and America
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RR44-5--The University of Berlins still not rebuilt six years after the war
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RR44-6--Brandenburg Tor, the famous gateway to Berlin being restored
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RR44-7--One of seven hills in Berlin. There were no hills before the war. These hills were formed from rubble left after the war
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RR44-8--Even though the western sector had been largely rebuilt, the eastern sector was not
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RR44-9--The Reichstag was the parliament building until 1933 when it burned. Here in 1951 it was still in ruins. It has since been rebuilt
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RR44-10--Russian monument next to the Reichstag
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RR44-11--Russian soldier on sentry duty at the monument
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RR44-12--Propaganda sign on side of building, Big Brother, Joseph Stalin
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RR44-13A--Cemetery where thousands of Russian soldiers who died in the battle for Berlin are buried
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RR44-13B--Cemetery where thousands of Russian soldiers who died in the battle for Berlin are buried
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RR44-14--Two marble Russian flags at the entrance of the cemetery
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RR44-15--The marble was taken from Hitler's Reich Chancellery
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RR44-16--A monument to mother Russia
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RR44-17--This is where Hitler's bunker was when he committed suicide
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RR44-18--Dr. Joseph Goebbels home. He was Hitler’s propaganda minister, and when Hitler committed suicide, he replaced him, but the next day he committed suicide
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RR44-19--Another monument in the eastern sector
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RR44-20--Wheat field in the Russian zone
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RR45-1_95--The Villa. This is where MCC workers lived. I lived there while at Gronau
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RR45-2_96A--The Clubhouse A large building where refugees lived while being processed. Families were separated by blankets hung on clothes-lines
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RR45-3_107A--Soup kitchen where refugees were fed
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RR45-4_98--A group that had been cleared to emigrate leaving Gronau train station
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RR45-4_99A--A group that had been cleared to emigrate leaving Gronau train station
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RR45-5_100A--Saying their last good-byes to those who they are leaving behind
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RR45-6_101--This is the group that left from Gronau that time
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RR45-7_100--In line at Bremen waiting to go through customs
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RR45-8_101A--In Bremen, leaving for Canada. The wait is long
