Yesterday I took some out of my very busy Sunday afternoon to head to Treptower Park. The weather was beautiful; high 60's and sunny. I wanted to get there to take some pictures, because earlier in the semester we went for one of my seminars and the weather was absolutely disgusting and cold and lifeless. This time, it was just the opposite. The park was very crowded and you could sense what the Germans call Gemütlichkeit. It basically means the perfection situation. It the good feeling you have when you sitting outside on a nice day on a park bench chatting with a buddy, while drinking a cool german pilsner and eating your bratwürst. The part of Treptower Park were I went to take pictures, is actually an old Soviet memorial. The park lies in former East Germany, and they were very sympathetic to the Soviet Union. The Park memorializes the Red Army's victory of the battle of Berlin and there defeat of Fascism. It is also there to as a way to promote Stalin, Lenin, and other communist beliefs. The second function of the park, is the fast that its a cemetery. Buried under 5 lands memorialized mounds of earth of thousands of Soviet soldiers that were killed in Berlin during WWII. Most of them were unknown soldiers. The grandness of the place is far better to see in person than in the pictures I took, but they give you a pretty good idea I think.
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