Today we pivoted away from a visit to Sachsenhausen and instead were welcomed by Albrecht Winterhager into the family house of Dietrich Bonhoeffer. He shared some of the Bonhoeffer story and then let us explore the house, including the study upstairs that Dietrich would use when he was in Berlin.

Then, since we were only one train station away, we went to Berlin’s Olympia Stadion – built by Hitler for the 1936 games, this is where Jesse Owens won 4 gold medals.

The trains were not helping us make it to Sachsenhausen…so, we’ll try to get there on Monday. Instead, we went to Platform 17 – a memorial in Grunewald marking the station where 50,000 Jews from the Berlin area were deported to various points in the east.

After that, folks split up and did different things. I caught the champions league final, many of the students took the opportunity to explore other parts of Berlin, and still others get some shopping in. Pictures below!

Tomorrow many of us will go to the Berliner Dom for a Lutheran service – then we’ll all go to the Jewish Museum in the afternoon.

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