Germany Day 6: Hitler’s Bunker Today, Remaining WWII Damage in Berlin

A woman waits on the subway in a Berlin station.

Girls ride a bike through the heart of Berlin.

A view of the Brandenburg Gate from the famed Straße des 17 Juni street.

Checkpoint Charlie was one of the few points where people, with authorization, could cross between between East and West Germany.

The site that was once Nazi leader Adolf Hilter's bunker now exists as grass patches and a gravel parking lot.

The Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe in Berlin consists of 2,711 concrete blocks of varying size.

A woman walks through the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe in Berlin.

Flowers droop from an artillery gun at the Soviet War Memorial along Straße des 17 Juni street in Berlin.

The Soviet War Memorial was revealed in 1945 in Berlin, shortly after Russia had taken the city at the end of World War II.

Many signs of Russian rule are spread across what was once East Germany.

A monument honors past Generalfeldmarschall (general field marshal) Leopold von Dessau.

The Alte Nationalgalerie (Old National Gallery) opened in Berlin in 1876.

Originally finished in 1855, the Neues Museum incurred heavy damage during World War II and would not reopen until 2009. Damage from battle is still visible on these two columns.

Some remnants of World War II damage in Berlin have been intentionally left unrepaired, like these bullet holes on the front of the Neues Museum.

A statue watches watches over visitors walking through downtown Berlin.

A statue of Frederick the Great stands before a massive construction project in downtown Berlin.

The Reichsluftfahrtministerium (Ministry of Aviation) building is one of the very few Nazi structures to have survived to present day.

This photo shows a comparison between the war-damaged Brandenburg Gate and the repaired one.

A sign indicates when the next public-transit buses will arrive.