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 Currently the one-week field trip focuses
on Berlin and Dresden. It begins on
Sunday evening when the class meets in Berlin for dinner. The class
travels there using their EurailPass.
Monday
- Wednesday Themes: Holocaust, Division of Europe and German
Unification
 Guided
Tours:
Berlin, Checkpoint Charley Museum, Concentration
Camp Sachsenhausen, Holocaust Memorial. The
class is also briefed at the U.S. Embassy and meets with officials
at Bayer-Schering Incorporated. Two sessions provide an
opportunity for discussions
with an eye
witnesses of the time of Checkpoint Charley, and life in the former
German Democratic Republic, the fall of the wall and unification.
Alexanderplatz
and the Reichtstagsgebäude Dome are also visited in Berlin.
Dresden
Themes: Dresden - World Heritage Site and the Florence
of the Elbe
Late Thursday and Friday is usually spent in Dresden, the city fire
bombed in W.W.II. and
includes: Guided walking your in Dresden Old Town, boat trip
on the Elbe, guided tour of the New Green Vault, Dresden
Royal Museum.
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