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Berlin is a fascinating city, one see one another. This is per- styles. And a visitor can quick- that seems to celebrate its haps what makes Berlin irre- ly learn to recognize whether a weirdness. A symbol of both sistible for so many people. given transportation line was the Cold War and a divided As a city, Berlin speaks to its built in East or West Berlin, or Germany, it had been split in inhabitants and visitors in a created after the fall of the wall two since the end of WWII. way few other cities do. Even to reconnect the two severed It was divided by the famous should one want to forget the halves. wall erected on the East, Com- re-stitched together fabric of munist side since 1961. The the city, it would be impos- The museum is located under wall fell in 1989, symbolizing sible. Memorials to the cen- two arches of the S-Bahn (city the reunification of Germany tral role Berlin played in both railway) tracks which happened the following WWII and in the Cold War are This story is also told through year. ubiquitous. The Eastside Gal- motorcycles, thanks to the Less than thirty years have lery has original sections of Berliner Motorrad Museum, CHINA 2 WHEELS passed since then, perhaps the wall with famous anti-war or Berlin Motorcycle Museum. MARCH ARTICLE not enough time for genera- murals artistically applied, for This fascinating museum, a must see for any motorcycle example. The buildings them- tions of trauma and conflict HISTORY TOLD THROUGH MOTORCYCLES to heal, when members of the selves reflect either the East fan visiting Berlin, bills itself same family could not even or West German construction as “Berlin’s first East German By: Dillon Dakota Carroll, Foreign Correspondent 13