Before the Obama speech, the front cover of Stern magazine asked whether Obama was coming as a Messiah or as a seducer - there was not much of either in evidence tonight. The crowd of around 120,000 was in carnival mood. Girls dyed their hair red-white-and blue, people hung from the lampposts first installed by Nazi architect Albert Speer; there were jugglers; some dancing on the fringes. Big television screens were erected with Obama, dwarfed by the Victory Column, impossibly distant for most. For the majority of the young audience, it was familiar terrain, mimicking the sunny days of the 2006 World Cup.
Before the Obama speech, the front cover of Stern magazine asked whether Obama was coming as a Messiah or as a seducer - there was not much of either in evidence tonight.
The crowd of around 120,000 was in carnival mood.
Girls dyed their hair red-white-and blue, people hung from the lampposts first installed by Nazi architect Albert Speer; there were jugglers; some dancing on the fringes. Big television screens were erected with Obama, dwarfed by the Victory Column, impossibly distant for most.
For the majority of the young audience, it was familiar terrain, mimicking the sunny days of the 2006 World Cup.
Huh!? Does this idiot think there was no public lighting in Berlin before the Nazis? *Lunatic*, n. One whose delusions are out of fashion.
