The Christi Himmelfahrt (Day of Christ’s Ascension) national holiday is usually on a Thursday in May, which can lead into a 4-day weekend. Shops are closed and streets are a little quieter, but cultural and natural spaces get a little busier.
I’m heading out to the Allied Museum to check out the decades-long story of Allied forces “occupying and protecting” the city, from post-war reconstruction chaos, division of Berlin and Germany, the Fall of the Wall and subsequent reunification. I’ve made the hour-long trek on Berlin’s S- and U-Bahn to Dahlem, which used to be a part of the American sector in former West Berlin. These are some images from Ascension Day.
Street-level entrance building for U-Bahn U3 station Oskar-Helene-Heim.
Alliierten-Museum (Allied Museum), open daily from 10am to 6pm.
Telex copy from the US Office of War Information in London 🏴, receiving live news reports from Reuters as they were typed and sent. This excerpt is from 8 May 1945 and the timestamp is London time. The text is abbreviated for easier/faster transmission.
1st ever published edition of Berlin newspaper “Der Tagesspiegel” on 27 September 1945. The 1st top headline is “Three (new) states in southern Germany”. At the time, there were other papers, but under the control of the Soviets.
The 4-Power or 4-Nations governing authority in Berlin was the Allied Kommandatura, consisting of France, United Kingdom, United States, and the Soviet Union. After 1948, the authority became the 3-Power formation.
The three sectors in West Berlin.
Station column-signage for the U3 U-Bahn line, from Oskar-Helene-Heim eastboundto terminus Warschauer Straße. In normal operations, it would take 36 minutes to reach the end of the line.
I made all images above with an iPhone15 on 29 May 2025. I received neither request nor compensation for this content. This post composed within Jetpack for iOS appears on Fotoeins Fotografie at fotoeins DOT com.
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