I did not choose the best season to visit Berlin. The town was still covered with snow and filled with icy air. The coldness freezes the toes, but it does not freeze out the minds of Berliners. My companion and I took a casual way to explore the city for the first time, and found out that not only Berlin is a very big, quite and cold place... , but also it has this courageously unique attitude towards it's history. What happened in the mid 1900's was too heavy. To neglect or to deny the mistakes from the past can be seen as an easier way out, but to face the scars like what Germans did could allow them and the rest of the world to have compassion for each other and the strength to become a better self.
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