Europe's best bargain- Kerry McPhedran
'This is the hand that shook the hand of Joseph Goebbels, my boy!" What? "That's what my first landlord in Berlin said when I agreed to rent a room." Our ex-pat Vancouver friend turned Berliner shudders recalling an old man's pride in having met Hitler's feared minister of propaganda. George is making his point that history is everywhere in Berlin. And not always that history. Albert Einstein and the Tsar were guests in the heady 1920s at the legendary Hotel Adlon where Marlene Dietrich was discovered, Charlie Chaplin lost the buttons to his pants, Michael Jackson dangled his baby and Greta Garbo famously whispered "I vant to be alone" while filming Grand Hotel.
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