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A Moving Visit to Berlin’s Topography of Terror Museum

February 17, 2017 By Jen Leave a Comment

Graffiti on the remains of the Berlin Wall

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On a recent trip to Berlin, I took some time to explore the Topography of Terror museum and found myself pushing almost anxiously through the exit doors into the December damp air outside.

Standing there on the museum steps, I attempted to absorb the hard – but necessary – lessons that I had learned about the horrors of the Nazi regime from its astonishingly swift rise to power to its institutionalization of terror to its murderous crimes across Europe and, finally, to the regime’s violent end as Berlin burned in the final days of WWII.

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Just before my partner died in June of 2018, I promised him - and myself - that I would not waste a single day that I am gifted on this planet. I quit my job that very month and set off with a one-way ticket and a dream to see the world.

My hope in writing this blog is that the stories that I write here will inspire you to follow your dreams - whatever those dreams may be.

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