24 members of U5 had a fantastic history trip to Berlin over half term, visiting key sites associated with Nazi Germany and the Cold War. Highlights included a visit to the 1936 Olympic Stadium, a trip up the dome of the Reichstag at nightfall, and a virtual reality simulation of crossing the Berlin Wall in the 1980s.
There were sombre moments too as the group visited Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp and the grim Stasi prison - students all gained a much deeper understanding of the realities of Germany’s difficult 20th century. Yet, they also got a taste of the modern, cosmopolitan, united city that Berlin has become since the Berlin wall fell thirty years ago.
