“Where some states have an army, the Prussian Army has a state.” –
After a few stops we left the train and walked through the Tiergarten.  This was once a Royal hunting forest but was cut down for firewood during the immediate post war period when fuel was in short supply and has now been replanted as a very fine public park.
Late afternoon and it was beginning to get dark. The park is nice but a bit edgy with little gangs of dangerous looking men and we witnessed at least two dodgy transactions – drugs we imagined. To be on the safe side we stayed on the well lit footpaths and didn’t risk the shadows of the woodland tracks.
Berlin was once the capital city of Prussia and then Germany after 1871.
Prussia had become a modern European State in 1701 and for the next one hundred and…
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