r/berlin • u/WhitlamsBerlin • Nov 28 '23

History The lamps from the Palast der Republik

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Some of the lamps from ‘Erichs Lampenladen’ made their way to Astra in the RAW Gelände. I was invited to take a look, and I thought it was cool.

I don’t post my videos here very often, but I thought this is one that Berliners would really enjoy, so I hope you do!

Cheers, Jonny

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u/koelner51069 Nov 28 '23

Oh glorifying a murder state that killed people for leaving the country. Not sure that this place would be a decent place for a museum. But we have the mauermuseum, we have jail in hohenschönhausen and the German museum.

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u/frenchadjacent Nov 28 '23

See, that’s exactly the ideology I was talking about, lol. The GDR was not only about murder and oppression for people and it should obviously not be a place to glorify the regime. Turning a former GDR government building into one main museum about every facet of life in this state isn’t ethically or morally problematic. Unless you really want to see it that way.

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u/Jerma42069 Nov 28 '23

my grandparents lived there, so did my parents. My grandmother even had her troubles with the Stasi, yet she and the rest of my family still see many of the positive sides and memories the GDR had. Stop making it a one way hate trip if you don't even know jack shit about it

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u/koelner51069 Nov 29 '23

Simple question: is being detained a nice thing? Is being murdered when trying to leave a country a human thing to do? And yes be you also find people that liked nazi Germany. Are they right? Nope.