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Sunday February 7, 2010
Posted by: Melvin Heward at 8:41AM UMDT on February 7, 2010
Berlin is the city to visit! Forget Paris, France Arriving time is 5:00 PM. The cost is only
17,00€ a person. for childen under six years old are free!! Children under fourteen years old is fifty percent off the price. In dollars is full price $24.00 per person. Children under fourteen is $12.00.  Take a ship cruise in Berlin. Flat Standly waiting to go on a cruise.
 Tegel to Potsdam cruise. Wannsee harbor.  Peacock Island.  Potsdam.  Freedom Bridge.  Ship Traffic. The city of Berlin has in the middle of the city water Taxi's that cost 5,00€ per person. About $7.00. you travel for one hour on the Spree river. Bring your Cam.  The water taxi you will see this.  The water Taxi take right down the middle of the city. The City of Berlin is always moving!
Sunday January 31, 2010
Posted by: Melvin Heward at 5:25AM UMDT on January 31, 2010
Wow! What a Winter Berlin and North Germany is having. The cold weather and snow
just keeps coming. Berlin and Northern
Germany has been hit with a blizzards this
week! On January 30, 2010, the Blizzard
was so bad the German Highway patrol
closed the freeway in the German state
Mecklenburg - Vorpommern.
 The City of Stralsund, Germany in the summer. This means a berliners can not drive to the city of Stralsund.
For example it would be like closing the freeway from the city of
Spanish Fork all the way to the city of Logan that
is located in intermountain state of
Utah. Utah is where the winter games
2002 were played. Salt Lake City
2002 Winter games. OK the Olympic
games 2002.
 snowed in Berlin.  Berlin all snowed in.  Schica running in the snow  Snow on Schica nose!  In Hamburg the Alster lake was frozen! Alster lake has not been frozen for 19 years!
 The snow fell so bad in North Germany that Deutsche
Bahn had to send a train snow plow to remove
the snow from the tracks! Many deaths
on the freeway too. Now back to the
City of Berlin.
The City of Berlin has many rivers, canals, ship locks, and lakes.
Berlin was two major rivers the Spree
river and the Havel river.
The havel river.
The havel river moves from North to South.  The Spree river meet the Havel river in the
old city of Spandau in Berlin.
 Spandau has also a ship lock. The ship
lock is flood lock. a boat or a ship goes
in the lock then the river level is lowered or
Sunday January 24, 2010
Posted by: Melvin Heward at 7:14AM UMDT on January 24, 2010
Why should People visit city of Berlin, Germany?
The City of Berlin Weekly is going to try answer these question in the following coming weeks. Why should People visit city of Berlin? It has been said that if you are not born a Berliner, you become one. The foreigners who have moved to Berlin and visited from elsewhere like to think of themselves as real Berliners. Even President John F. Kennedy said, " Ich bin ein Berliner" translated in
English means " I am a Berliner."
What is true is that city of Berlin
has always been more than just a city. The city of Berlin has seven major forest. The Berlin forest have rivers, lakes, hills, mountains, and lots of wildlife.  Berliner Forest is surrounded by water. The Havel river and the big Wannsee
lake. The Berlin Forest has a golf
course 18 holer, Stolper mountain
315 feet high, Glienicke palace, and
Freedom bridge.
Freedom Bridge  Berliner state forest is also surrounded
by water. The Spree river, the big
Müggel lake, Langer lake,Teufels lake,
Krumme Lake and marshland. The
Berliner state forest has Müggel
mountain 356 feet high and the
Müggel tower is 303 feet high.
 Bucher forest has one small lake called
the Bogen lake, many streams, and
ponds.
 Grünewald forest has the Havel river
flows along side the Grünewald forest.
The Grünewald forest is 3000 acres,
has the big Wannsee lake, the Schachten
lake, the Grunewald lake, the Teuels lake,
The Lindwerder island, marshlands and
beaches. The Berliner state freeway
goes through the Grünewald forest.
 The Grünewald forest has the biggest mountain in area it called Devils mountain
374 feet high and 325 feet high. There is
also Dachs mountain 200 feet high, the
Havel mountain 318 feet high,
 Grünewald Forest and Devils mountain.  and Grünewald palace, and the Grünewald tower 256 feet high.
 Plänter forest is a very small forest there is a forestry school and the Spree river
flow East to North along the forest.
 Spandau Forest has Havel river flows
on the East side. Spandau forest also
has Reh hill 131 feet high, the Kuh lake,
Mittelheide lake, Niederheide lake, Laßzin
lake, streams, and ponds.
 Tegel forest is 5000 acres the Havel river
flows on the East side. Tegel forest has
Tegeler lake, beaches, the Scharfenberg
island, the Hasselwerder island, the Lindwerder
island, the Ehrenpforten mountain 226 feet
high, Apollo mountain 213 feet high, and
the Reiher hill 137 feet high.
 Mushroom in Tegel forest. So come to Berlin and see it yourself!!
Sunday January 17, 2010
Posted by: Melvin Heward at 8:12PM UMDT on January 17, 2010
The Deutsche Bundespost (Germany Post Office) ran
both Telephone, Television, Radio, and the Mail service. The Deutsche Bundespost state-owned and a monopoly until 1996. In 1996 Deutsche Bundespost was privatized and Deutsche Telekom was born. The German government still holds a 15% stake in Deutsche Bundespost stock directly, and another 17% through the government bank KFW so a total of 32% in Deutsche Bundespost stocks.  T-Mobile is a mobile telephone provider, owned by Deutsche Telekom. It operates GSM networks in the United States of America.  The DHL Express was purchase in 2002 by the Deutsche Post.  The Deutsche Bank (German Bank). The deutsche bank began independent operations in the United States of America in 1978,
opening its first North America office branch in New York City,
New York. Deutsche Bank is one of the largest European based
employer in New York City and is also located on Wall Street and
has a service office in Salt Lake City, Utah
 Siemens is a German Corporation it's headquarters in New York City, New York. Siemens Corporation in the United States of
America reported of $22.4 billion in sales and employs 69,000 people
throughout all 50 states and Puerto Rico.
 Bosch is a German manufacture. The Bosch Corpration has been in the United States of America since 1906! Yes! 1906! The Bosch
founder, Robert Bosch, a man of enterprise and with a real vision of
the future. Robert Bosch believed that one of the products he
developed `the magneto ignition system´ would provide a technological
innovation that would be accepted in the United States of America
marketplace. That Bosch product was a great success in the U.S.A.
and in the our world.
 Germany helps to make the United States of America a stronger country. Germany companies brings lot of jobs to U.S.A.
Germany knows that the unemployment is over 10% in
United States! German companies are trying to being down the
unemployment in the U.S.A. by employing more Americans. If you
don't believe it! Well, you can see the facts yourself!! By looking
below at the websites and looking around and you will see it.
For a example Have you seen a DHL delivery truck in your area.
Do you uses T-Mobile cell phone service. Well that service is´
American jobs. For more German Companies looking to employ
American are for example Volkwagon, Mercedes-Benz, Siemans,
Bosch, and many more German companies wanting American
to work for them. Here are some websites that are German
companies wanting American workers!
Sunday January 10, 2010
Posted by: Melvin Heward at 5:56AM UMDT on January 10, 2010
The City of Berlin has been hit with a
monstrous snow storm. The Snow storm started around 21:00 hours (9:00PM) on Friday, January 08, 2010 until 21:00 on Saturday, January 09, 2010. The snow storm and strong winds cause snow drifts all over the city. The city of Berlin has not had so much snow for over 20 years. So the Berliner will now invite the polar
bears to Berlin. Just joking folks!
 Alter Dorf church is in winter paradise.
The Church is dress up in white winter
snow.
 Tempelhof Alter Park is a winter paradise! Children, Dogs, and Big kids are playing in the snow.  Kids having winter fun in Alter Park, Tempelhof, Berlin.  Schica having fun in Alter Park.  The side streets are snow in.  The Snow is being blowing off the Tempelhof city
hall by the wind.
 The Berliner small streets are snowed in.  The Duck pond in Alter Park is frozen.  Tempelhof Francke Park is a White wonderland where families are having winter
fun.
 Francke Park.  Even Big Kids get to have fun in Francke Park.  Francke Park in southern end of the Berlin
center. There are deer in the park too.
 There is wildlife in Berlin. I took this picture on a hill above the deer. This buck was in the Francke Park in Tempelhof, Berlin.  Bikes are dress up in the white snow.  The bus stop at Alt-Tempelhof Street. Sunday January 3, 2010
Posted by: Melvin Heward at 6:56AM UMDT on January 3, 2010
The City of Berlin Weekly is very happy with the Comments
received from are readers. We are deep grateful for Provo
Daily Herald for Publishing the City of Berlin Weekly. We wish
you all and the Provo Daily Herald a Happy New Year!
Here are some of the comments we have recieved in 2009.
The City of Berlin Weekly received no money. The comments
are worth more! Thank you again!
 City Of Berlin Weekly 4
Nice pictures, thank you!
Olaf
 City of Berlin Weekly 7
Hi,
I'm surprised these monuments still stand. Why weren't they destroyed when East Germany
threw off the shackles of communism and got rid
of the old Soviet Union? It's such an odd mixture
of symbols: the communist sickle destroying the
nazi hackenkreuz. Weird!
Kirt  City Of Berlin Weekly 8
We were in Berlin several years ago--
before the Wall was taken down. At the time
there was a bombed-out church somewhere
near the center of town. We were told that
it was going to be kept to remind people of
the horrors of war. Is it still standing?
We enjoy your comments,
Eleanor Heward
Editor: yes.  City Of Berlin Weekly 11
Thank you for the sausage stories! One of
my first husband's favorite foods was German
sausages. He loved to go to the Neurnberg
(sp?) Toy Show because there was always a
sausage stand outside EACH building--and
they were all different. Tiny finger size, big
round juicy ones, spicy ones, mild and mellow
ones---he loved them all.
Eleanor Zimmerman Heward
City Of Berlin Weekly 11
many thanks for your City of Berlin Weekly.
I think you have a great knowledge in history
and development of one of the most interesting
and exciting cities in the world from worldwar II
on. It is very important that the people in the
world know the situation of Berlin there politics,
oeconomie, science and culture. Ernst Reuter
has said in 1953, look at this town. We stay
here for the free world and a free Berlin.
We will never give up our democratic rights.
I believe in the "Power of Berlin".
congratulations for your excellent work on
your platform.
Many good wishes
Brigitte and Norbert
Berlin,Germany
City Of Berlin Weekly 13
Thank you. That’s a wonderful illustration.
Norbert
City of Berlin Blog,
March 19, 2009
Melvin Heward has a pro-Save Teufelsberg!
post in his blog "City Of Berlin Weekly." His
post includes a short history of T-Berg and
tells his readers where to go to help Save
Teufelsberg! Heward lives in Berlin with his
German wife. His profile photo shows him in
Army uniform with Specialist Fourth Class
insignia of rank.
Looks good, I’ve had a chance to read all of your
articles when you emailed them to me. And I’ve learned some things I didn’t know before. Pretty cool you take the time to inform the rest of us ignoramus Americans’ who don’t know much about anything. Lol Keep up the good work. Rich just goes to show how sneeking the americans
are, then we wonder why no one trusts them. Lone Eagle Mccauley
West Virginia Editor note: You are American.
City Of Berlin Weekly 17
Thank you for your interesting article. As I have mentioned before, we used to buy mdse. from Gustav Demler in Berlin, who had been helped in business by the Marshall plan. EH
 CIA Tunnel in Berlin. City of Berlin Weekly 18
The way the city of berlin weekly is writing this
history and I am enjoying it. I was first married
in 1941 and the events you've been describing
were in our newspapers---but often with a different
slant than you have given them.
Thank you.
Eleanor Hewatd
Hallo Melvin Heward, ich habe alles gut erhalten und
auch schon übersetzt. Es ist sehr gut geworden und
ich habe mich riesig gefreut. Mit besten Dank und
bis zur nächsten Ausgabe.
MfG Joachim Förster Translated in English
Hello Melvin Heward, I have received City of Berlin weekly and already translated in German. The article
turn out very good and I was very happy. With the
best of thanks und until the next
article. MfG Joachim Förster Editor Note: Thank you Mr. Förster for your help with
this article. Mr. Förster lives there where the CIA
tunnel was build.
City of Berlin weekly 20
THE HISTORY & THE PICTURES OF THE GREAT BUILDINGS ARE UNBELIEVABLE.WHEN I WAS LAST
THERE THE BULDINGS HAD MY FULL ATTENTION.
THANK YOU FOR SHARING THE GREATEST OF
GERMANY AND ITS GREAT DESIGNS AND ITS GREAT
BEAUTY AND ITS HISTORY.
LOURIE MAE City Of Berlin Weekly 23 thank you very much for the city of Berlin weekly... the photos are great and I really like what you have
written..!! and it`s very cool for me to learn more
about Berlin this way...
Many greetings from Maureen
 Weekly 026. It is a very precisely report of Spandau its development and younger history. You
have a good Impression from the pictures
of the region of Spandau.
Best wishes Brigitte und Norbert Thank you for the tour, My husband
( whom I married in 1941--died in 2000)
would have loved Spandau. We went
through Dusseldorf-Cologne at one time
and he liked it so much that we went
back to stay for a few days-----Climbed
the 400+ steps to the top of the
Cathedral and drooled over the lovely
things in the shops in the "King's Alley".
E.Heward
Salt Lake City, Utah
IT IS AMAZING BEAUTY AND THE BUIDINGS ARE SO FASINATING WOW!
LOURIE MAE Many thanks for your last excellent City of Berlin D.H
Long Beach, California
City of Berlin Weekly 27
Thanks
This is very cool. Hugh THANK YOU AGAIN FOR YOUR SHARING
ANOTHER WONDERFUL PART OF BERLIN
BEAUTIFUL HISTORY! I WAS SO IMPRESSED
HOW YOU HAVE MADE SUCH A GREAT
IMPRESSION FOR GOOD WITH THE DAILY
HERALD HERE IN PROVO! THAT IS SAYING
ALOT!! THEY ARE PROBABLY GRATEFUL FOR
YOUR IMPUT FROM GERMANY. IT IS THERE
DIRERT CONTACT FROM EUROPE.
L. Bloomfield
Your posts about Germany are interesting
and give readers here at home an idea of
what it's like overseas. Thank you for
spending the time to post. It's been
great to have the content!
Keep writing!
Kira Johnson Daily Herald
Provo, Utah
vielen Dank für Deine Artikel und vielen
Fotos. Habe schon fest darin gelesen.
Sind sehr interessant. Woher hast Du
Dir denn alle Informationen geholt?
Finde ich echt bemerkenswert wieviel
Du über Deutschland gesammelt hast.
Rita Neumarkt, Deutschland
Translated in English. Thank you very much for Artikel and many pictures. I have almost finish reading
them. There are very interesting. Where
did you get all the information? I am really
surprise how much you know about
Germany.
Rita
Neumarkt, Germany
City of Berlin Weekly 31
Many thanks for the chronic of the
German American Volksfest from
the beginning in 1961 until now.
The pictures are also fine.
Best wishes
Brigitte und Norbert
City of Berlin Weekly 35
Very impressive & imforative!
amazing how many teams!!
The pictures make it more
visual friendly, too!
L. Bloomfield
The City of Berlin Weekly thanks Russia
Website Newsplanet for
getting the word out!
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Beautiful!! you know some of those
pictures seem familiar? It seemed
like Peacock island was where we
went right? and that picture you
took with the sun behind that great
building or great towel that was truly
awesome!
L. Bloomfield
Very nice picture of the Grunevaldt
Tower!!!
E&E
thank you for your intersting photos and for sending me the City of Berlin
Weekly. You really love Berlin. It is
interesting how much you know about
Berlin. Papi would like your pictures a
lot.
Rita Editor Note:
At this time I would like to Congratulate
my Nephew Hyrum Heward for his
Achievement Award! I am very very
proud of his Achievements. He
attend Spanish Fork High School
in Utah. Honor student in history
and received the United States
Achievement Academy Award!
Super Hyrum super!
I love History too!! We wish
you well in the future!!
Sunday December 27, 2009
Posted by: Melvin Heward at 5:21AM UMDT on December 27, 2009
Some of my friends and Family asked me why I stay in
Berlin, Germany for over 30 years. Well the first thing is I love the German people! The history of germany that helped the United States become strong. Starting from German General Baron von Steuben training Continental Army at Valley Forge. The Christmas tree. Dr. Albert Einstein, German helped move the United States of Amercia to a super power. The freeways and expressway come for Germany. The rocket to the moon came from German technology. The jet came for German technology. There are more Germans in the United States of America then any other nationality. Here in the City Of Berlin it is hard to get home sick because it is just like America! There is English music on the radio and television. America resturant every where! Some german men and some German girls wear blue jeans and baseball caps. There are some American companies too lazy to make their advertise in German. The American companies know that about 80% Germans knows English!  As you can see it's in English!  Repair Service, Shoe & Me these stores are in Berlin.  German company " service- Center "  In English as you can see!  and more in English.  Easy credit  At a Shopping mall in Berlin.  American pizza. One last thing your Walmart Super center came for Germany. department stores in Germany sales food too. Sunday December 20, 2009
Posted by: Melvin Heward at 11:39AM UMDT on December 20, 2009
City of Berlin has over 130 American resturants. You don't have to go
far before finding a American resturant selling a Cheese burger, french fries, and a drink with which you can satisfy your appetite for a couple of Euro's. Mc Donald's may be nearly as inescapable in the city of Berlin as they are in New York and Tokyo, but there's plenty of other American dinners and
Resturants in Berlin too!
 Burger King: Born: 1953, in Jackson, Florida. 32 franchised in Berlin. Price of a Cheese Burger is for 0.99 Euro cents.
 Dunkin Donuts: Born: 1950, in Quincy, Massachusetts. 23 franchised in Berlin.
 Häagen-Dazs: Born: 1976, in Bronx, New York. 35 franchised in Berlin. Häagen-Dazs ice cream is solded in stores too.
 kentucky Fried Chicken: Born 1952, in South Salt Lake City, Utah. The company was founded as Kentucky Fried Chicken by Colonel Sanders in 1952,
though the idea of KFC's fried chicken actually goes back to 1930's. The
dining area was named "Sanders & Cafe´" and was so successful that in 1936,
Kentucky Governor Ruby Laffoon granted Mr. Harland Sanders the title of
honorary Kentucky Colonel in recognition of his contribution to the state's
cuisne. 6 franchised in Berlin.
  Mc Donalds: Born: 1940, in San Bernardino, California. 51 franchised in Berlin. Cheese Burger 1.00 Euro.
 Pizza Hut: Born: 1958 Topeka, Kansas. 5 franchised in Berlin
 Schlotzsky's Deli: Born: 1971 in Austin, Texas. 2 franchised in Berlin.
 Starbucks: Born: 1971 in Seattle, Washington. 24 franchised in Berlin.
  Subway: Born: 1965 in Bridgeport, Connecticut. 28 franchised in Berlin.
The City of Berlin has many American Dinner's and American resturants some are listed below:
Dolores Gourment Burritos Amarillo Pancakes & Coffee Fork Knife Eatery &Gourmet Shop
American Bowl Play Off Mississippi Spadau Burger World Neuland
American Western Saloon Hot dog & Burger World Western Resturant Richtershorn
Mr. Miller Hot dog Marchenhaftes Ribhouse All you Can eat
Resturant Mustang Bugel Brothers Bowl Arena
White Trash City Diner Cooper's
Cupcake Room 77 Hot Dog World
The Bird Juleps POwWow
Marien Burger Big Joe Uncle Sam's
Burgeramt Bond Berlin Leroy's Joy
Fat ### Pizza Route 66 Bagel & Bialys
Pasta Deli Rancho Grande Kreuzburger
Andy's Diner Deli 31 Staatsburger
Okeh RNBS Greenburger
Belushi's City Burger Little Dish
 Play Off Resturant  Cruise-in
 Sam Kullman's Diner  Sam Kullman's Diner inside  Sixties Diner
 Sixties Diner inside.
 Tony Roma's Sorry we had a blackout!
Sunday December 13, 2009
Posted by: Melvin Heward at 9:00AM UMDT on December 13, 2009
The United States Military Liaison Mission Potsdam,
Germany. The legal American Spies!!  United States Military Liaison Mission Unit patch. On March 12, 1947, the Huebner-Malinin agreements was signed. The Huebner-Malinin agreement on April 12, 1947 Under General Order 17 creating the United States Military Liaison Mission staff
headquartered in Potsdam near West Berlin. The agreements between
the United States of America, Great Britain, France and the Soviet Union permitted the deployment of small numbers of military intelligence personnel in each other's territory in Germany, for the purposes of monitoring and furthering better relationships between the Soviet and Western occupation forces. The United States Military Liaison Mission comprised approximately a dozen active tour United States Army officers and NCOs, plus a few dozen other support personnel.  Freedom Bridge. The United States Military Liaison Mission officers driving over Freedom Bridge to moved in and out of West Berlin through city of Potsdam in matte-olive-drab heavy American sedans. The Mission officers were accompanied by an Noncommissioned Officer and an enlisted driver. The others military liaison missions were the British Military Liaison Mission, (BMLM) the La Mission Militaire Francaise de Liaison, (FMLM) and the Soviet Military Liaison Mission (SMLM) The Allied liaison missions, having diplomatic status, were relatively free to roam around German Democratic Republic save for specifically designated restricted areas and were largely untouchable either by the law or military personnel. However some of their officers were killed in accidents or incidents which gave rise to significant military and political tensions. On June 23, 1948 United States Military Liaison Mission reported to Higher
command that there was an increase in Soviet Military movement allround
the GDR. On June 24, 1948, The Soviet military blockades all highway, rivers,
and rail traffic into West Berlin to force the Western Powers out of West Berlin.
USMLM was allowed to continue their mission throughout GDR but with some
restrictions on access to West berlin and travel corridor. USMLM attempted
to monitor Soviet Military buildup and intentions around all of Berlin.
On February 10,1962, Captain Francis Gary Powers was Exchanged for a
KBG agent. The USMLM participated in the exchange of Captain Powers at
Freedom Bridge.
On August 10-13, 1961, The USMLM team reporting to Higher Command that
the Soviet military was setting up a ring several kilometers outside of and around
Berlin prohibiting traffic into the city.
On 18-21 The USMLM team reporting to higher command that soviet and GDR
Troops were massing and moving toward the Czechoslovakia boarder.
On March 22, 1984, A French Military Liaison Mission tour vehicle is deliberately
rammed head on by a GDR ural-375 truck on the freeway near the city of Halle, GDR.
The FMLM driver, Mariotti, is killed instantly. The FMLM tour officer receives serious
head injuries and a broken arm but remains on the scene to watch over his fellow
dead team member. Note: Stasi (MfS) files recovered after the fall of the Berlin Wall
revealed that this incident was no accident, but a planned premeditated Murder!
 Soviet Military Liaison Mission July 4, 1981, Fourth of July Parade in West berlin.  Far right corner is Barbara and Alma Melvin Heward II At the fourth of July Parade Mc Nair U.S. Army Barracks in West Berlin, Germany. July 4, 1981.  Major Nicolson and Family.
On march 24, 1985, United States Military Liaison Mission Army Officer Major Arthur Donald Nicholson Jr. was killed by a Russian soldier near Ludwigslust, East
Germany. Major Nicholson and U.S. Army Staff Sergent Jessie Schatz were on patrol
in a non-restricted area served the Tank Regiment of second Guards Tank Soviet
Army. It is known to be frequently guarded under normal conditions. Major nicholson
and Ssgt. Schatz entered the wooded area when Major Nicholson took his military
camera to near by sheds taken some pictures of signboards. Then Ssgt. Schatz moved
their military vehicle to a position were it would give more security while Major Nicolson
checked for armor vehicle. A soviet sentry was concealed in the wooded area. The
Soviet sentry hearing the USMLM vehicle, the soviet soldier made his way through the
flank of the of the range to a position about 50 meters behind Major Nicolson. Ssgt.
Schatz noticed soviet sentry just before he open fire. Major Nicolson was hit in the
upper abdomen. Ssgt. Schatz shouted a warning as the first shot resounded. it was
too late to help the Major! Ssgt. Schatz jump in the Military vehicle started it, and
threw it into reverse to reach major Nicolson. Nicolson groaned, fell, and called to
Ssgt. Schatz. The Major lost consciousness. Ssgt. Schatz sprung from the vehicle to
administer first aid, but the sentry refused to permitt him to do so. The Sentry aim his
AK-47 to Ssgt. Schatz head, and motioned Ssgt. Schatz back into the military vehicle.
Ssgt. Schatz secured and covered the equipment, and check to be sure the doors were
locked, and waited. Finally at 16:05 hours (4:05PM) a hour and five minutes after the
shooting an unidentified individual in blue jogging suit took major Nicolson's Pulse, which
had ceased!
 Major Nicolson return back to United states. Major Nicholson was NOT armed!!! Sgt. Schatz heard Major Nicholson said "I been Hit" The Senior Soviet Officers debated their predicament and with their usual disregard for
human life. Major Nicholson bleed to death. Freguent requests by Sgt. Schatz to provide
medical treatment to Major Nicholson were repeatedly denied!
Major Nicholson was promoted posthumously to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel,
and was Buried in Arlington National Cemetety On April 26, 1985.
 On June 12, 1985, 23 American agents was Exchanged for a a Polish spy. The USMLM participated in the exchange of 23 American agents at Freedom Bridge.
On February 11,1986, Anatoly Sharansky was Exchanged for a KBG agent.
The USMLM participated in the exchange of Anatoly Sharnsky at Freedom Bridge.
On April 26, 1986, Nuclear accident at the Chernobyl power plant in Soviet
Union. USMLM personnel travelling throughout East Germany notice a complete
East German Government news blackout. East German Government never issue
a safety or health warning to it's people!
On September 17, 1987, USMLM United States Air Force non-commissioned officer
is wounded by a Soviet soldier while he and his partner an United States Air Force Officer
were conducting routine liaison functions in a non-restricted area.
On October 1, 1990, The United States Military Liaision Mission Potsdam, Germany is
deactivated!
United States Military Personnel station in West Berlin would be issued this card.    Sunday December 6, 2009
Posted by: Melvin Heward at 3:59AM UMDT on December 6, 2009
The Thirty Years War (1616-1648) Initially the war was fought largely
as a religious conflict between Protestants and Catholics in the Holy Roman Empire, although disputes over the internal politics and balance of power within the Empire played a significant part. The Thirty Years War left city of Potsdam cut off from all trade routes and from the city of Berlin by the Havel river and a number of lakes. It was only after the Friedrich William The Great had the Sanssouci palace Finished on May 1,1747, Friedrich the Great needed to improved the surrounding area by the building of bridges. It took a coach journey at the end of the 17th century took around eight hours - a day`s journey. The first Glienicke wooden bridge over the Havel river was very susceptible to the effects of the continuous use of
bridge had to be repaired a number of times. As industrialization and traffic
steadily increased. For example a daily mail coach between Berlin and Potsdam
was set up in 1754, the first Prussian avenue linking the two royal capitals was
built across the Glienicke bridge between 1792 and 1795.
 Architect and master builder Karl Friedrich schinkel The City of Potsdam than royal Capital of Brandenburg needed a new bridge build. The architect and master builder Karl Friedrich Schinkel was commissioned
to design a new bridge across the river Havel. Between 1831 and 1834 the
Glienicke Bridge was built of bricks in accordance with Schinkel`s plans.
 The second Glienicke Bridge 1834 The bridge had ten arches and central wooden section could be raised to allow vessels through. This reflected the large increase in steamer traffic on the river. In the first year of the 20th century just under 20.000 vehicles crossed the relatively narrow bridge in peak months. The cumbersome movable wooden
structure slowed down the increasing steamer traffic on the river unnecessarily.
Glienicker Bridge.
A bid compompetition was held in 1904 to find a new
design, which was to be in steel and have the outer
appearance of a suspension bridge. The design and
bid submitted by the Duisburg bridge building company
Johann Caspar Harkort was the one which won the bid
for building the bridge. The bridge was ceremonially
opened on 16th November 1907.
 During the German Democratic Republic period the Glienicke Bridge was renamed Brücke der Einheit (Bridge or Unity) and by the United States Military stationed in
West Berlin and Potsdam the bridge was named Freedom Bridge. Oh yes, United
States military was also station in Potsdam. The Army Unit was the United States
Military Liaison Mission Potsdam. They drove from Potsdam across the Freedom
Bridge every day to West Berlin.
 Ex-United States Air force Captain Francis Gary Powers working for the CIA was shot down by a surface to air missile over the Soviet Union on May 1,1960.
Captain Powers was on February 10,1962, exchanged for A KBG agent Rudolf
Ivanovich Abel who was arrested by the FBI on June 1957. They were exchanged
on Freedom Bridge.
On June 12, 1985, 23 American agents held in Eastern Europe were exchanged for Polish master spy Marian Zacharski and another three KBG agents that were
arrested in the West. They were exchanged on Freedom Bridge.
On February 11, 1986, The human rights Campainer and Political prisoner
Anatoly Sharasnsky and three Western agents were exchanged for Karl Koecher
and four other Eastern agents.
The Glienicke Bridge has alots of history but to me it will always be called FREEDOM BRIDGE!!!
Sunday November 29, 2009
Posted by: Melvin Heward at 7:56AM UMDT on November 29, 2009
The Prussian King wilhelm II, wanted to honour his
father Prussian King Friedrich Lugwig Wilhelm I, with a
monument to mark that would have been the Prussian
King Wilhelm I, one hundred birthday. King Wilhelm II,
contacted Architect Franz Heinrich Schwechten to
design the Monument. On March 10, 1897, Architect
Schwechten found the beautiful place to build the
monument. The place was located on the 79 meters
high Karlsberg hill in Southwestern part of Berlin, near
the wannsee Lake.
 Prussian King Friedrich Ludwig Wilhelm I In the middle of July 1897 Architect Schwechten started construction on the Kaiser Wilhelm I tower.
On March 22, 1899 the construction of the 56 meters
(184 feet) tall tower was finished. In the domed hall in
the upper part of the tower is a marble statue of Prussian
King Friedich Ligwig Wilhelm I.
 Architect Franz Heinrich Schwechten On June 9, 1899, the Friedich Ligwig Wilhelm I tower was
open to the pulbic. In the beginning of 1953 the Berliners
rename the tower to the Grunewald Tower. (Grunewaldturm)
The Berliners rename tower because it is located in the
Grunewald Forest.
 The Grunewaldturm. The Grunewald tower is on the Havelchaussee that runs along the west bank of the Havel river. The Tower is a total
104 meters (340 feet) above the Havel river. There is 205
steps leading up to the top of Grunewald tower.
The Havel river. On the top of the Grunewald tower there is a fantastic panorama view of Grunewald forest, Havel river, and all the
way to the Pfaneninsel. (Peacock Island), Also the view
stretches to Gatow and the city of Potsdam the Capital
of Brandenburg a German state.
 Peacock Island An excursion restaurant directly at the tower with a beer garden. The restaurant has decent food too.
the Grunewald tower has also a boat dock on the Havel
river.
one of my best pictures. The sun is directly behide the Grunewaldturm. photo by Alma Melvin Heward II Sunday November 22, 2009
Posted by: Melvin Heward at 12:29AM UMDT on November 22, 2009
The Berliner Rotes Rathaus is the state Capital building of Berlin.
Berlin is not only a city but also a state of Germany. The Rotes Rathaus in English means Red City Hall but, in reality it is a state capital. The Rotes Rathaus is where the Governor of Berlin, the House of State Representatives of Berlin, and the Berlin Senate convene.  The Rotes Rathaus was build to a North Italian high Renaissance design by Hermann Friedrich Waesemann during 1860. On June 11, 1861, King Wilhelm the First took part in the laying of the foundation stone of the Rotes Rathaus. The rotes Rathaus Berliner state capital was finished on the end of 1869.  The Berliner Rotes Rathaus design was to resemble the old city hall of torun, today in Poland. The Rotes Rathaus is 325 feet long and 290 feet across with three court yards. The architecture of the Rotes Rathaus tower is to resemble the Notre Dame Cathedral's tower of de Laon in France. The Rotes Rathaus tower rising up to 74 meters high (243 feet).  Rotes Rathaus tower.  Rotes Rathaus tower and the Berliner fernsehturm.  The cross is on the Berliner Fernsehturm! Look through the Brandenburg Tor and you will see the Rotes Rathaus. Sunday November 15, 2009
Posted by: Melvin Heward at 10:55AM UMDT on November 15, 2009
The Berliner Fernsehturm came into existence because the communist East German
republic needed a nation wide broadcasting facility, but its size and appearance arose
from the communist East German leaders desire for a symbol to represent the socialist
part of East Germany to the world. The idea came from Hermann Henselmann, the
architect of the Karl-Marx-Alle development. Hermann Henselmann envisioned adominating
tower of socialism.
 On August 4, 1965, construction began to build the Berliner Fernsehturm. It was design by a team of architects including Fritz Dieter and Günter Franke,
with the help of Swedish engineers experts. On October 3, 1969, the Berliner
Fernsehturm was put into operation.
 The Berliner Fernsehturm is a television transmitter tower. One of the tallest structure in Europe is the Berliner Fernsehturm. It is 147 1/2 feet higher than the Eiffel Tower in
Paris, France. There are many distinctive landmarks in the city of Berlin and the
Berliner Fernsehturm has become one of Berlin's most distinctive landmarks. The Berliner
Fernsehturm is located in the city of Mitte, Berlin at the Alexanderplatz. There
are many nicknames for the Berliner Fernsehturm starting with toothpick, Telespargel,
(TV asparagus) Imponierkeule, (show-off's club) and the last is Saint Walter. The nickname
Saint Walter came from Walter Ulbricht was Communist Party chief and a state council
leader Walter Ulbricht was said to have chosen the site.
 The Television Tower was intended to demonstrate the technological superiority of the German Democratic Republic, but ironically it became a source of embarrassment. In the
sunlight, the steel sphere below the antenna produces the reflection of a giant cross.
During the communist control of East Berlin were the Television Tower was located the
communist didn't welcome sicht of the cross on the Television Tower. In a communist
land where crosses had been removed from chruches roofs. The American soldiers
station in West Berlin called it "God revenge" and West Berliners called it "Pope revenge".
 The concrete shaft is 203 meters high (665 feet) contains two very fast elevators that carry passengers to the cafe and viewing platform. The viewing platform situated
inside a steel-clad giant sphere. The viewing platform is 203 meters high (665 feet)
above the ground. The Tele cafe is 207 meters high. (690 feet) The Tele cafe turn 360
degree on its own axis once every 30 minutes, displaying particularly beautiful views of
Berlin. The Tele cafe is an steel-clad ball, 105 feet across. The total highth of the
Berliner Fernsehturm is 365 meters high (1,197 feet)
 Sunday November 8, 2009
Posted by: Melvin Heward at 9:00AM UMDT on November 8, 2009
The Berliner Funkturm was design by Architect Heinrich Straumer.
Heinrich Straumer was born on December 7, 1876 in Chemnitz, Germany. Heinrich Straumer died in Berlin on November 22,1937. In the middle of December 1924, After the end of the First Radio Exhibition, construction of the Berliner Funkturm (a radio tower) was started. A 120 meters tall antenna mast was erected, which served as crane for building the tower. On the end of April 1925, the Berliner Funkturm was finished. Then on September 25, 1925, the Inauguration of the transmitter on medium wave frequency 520.8 kHz. A single T-antenna was strung between the top of the tower and an 80-meter-high guyed steel framework mast. On March 28,1926, second construction begain to protect visitors from electrical hazards, the Berliner Funkturm was grounded about its elevator shaft, although this directed the beam of the radio transmitter away from the center of Berlin.  On September 3, 1926, the Berliner Funkturm opened to the public at the inauguration of the Third Great German Radio Exhibition.
In the middle of 1929, Retuning of the medium wave transmitter to 716 kHz, first television transmission tests.
On December 20, 1933, the new large transmitter in Berlin Tegel takes over
the broadcast transmissions from the Berliner Funkturm. After this, the medium
wave transmitter at the Berliner Funkturm is only a backup transmitter for Berlin Tegel.
On March 22, 1935, From an antenna of the top of the Berliner Funkturm,
the first regular television program of the world is transmitted. Than on August 22, 1935,
Major fire in the exhibition hall at the Berliner Funkturm destroys all transmission devices
at the Berliner Funkturm. Flying sparks also burn out the Berliner Funkturm restaurant.
on December 23, 1935, the Berliner Funkturm Resumption of television broadcasts.
In the middle of 1938, Television transmitting equipment removed from the Berliner Funkturm.
During the World War II From 1939-1945, The Berliner Funkturm serves as a warning and
observation post. On April 19, 1945, Projectiles destroy one of the four legs of the Berliner
Funkturm at a height of 38 meters. The restaurant is again burned out. In December 1945,
Repair of the destroyed tower leg with 800 kg screws and 7.2 tons steel. In the middle of
1948, Experiments with directed radio transmission toward the mountain of Harz. On May
28,1950, the Berliner Funkturm restaurant reopens. In the Middle of 1951, Assembly of one
superturnstile antenna on the top of the Berliner Funkturm for the broadcast of FM radio
and television programs. With this antenna, the Berliner Funkturm grew around 12 meters,
from 138 meters to 150 meters. On October 1, 1951, Resumption of the television
transmissions which were disrupted by World War II and the immediate post-war period.
 On May 15, 1963, After completion of the 230-meter-high transmission mast near Scholzplatz, regular transmissions of television and broadcast programs from the Berliner
Funkturm were almost terminated. During the end of 1973, end of any regular broadcast
transmission from the Berliner Funkturm. During the middle of 1989, disassembly of the
Berliner Funkturm´s last transmitters for broadcast of radio and television.
Sunday November 1, 2009
Posted by: Melvin Heward at 9:30AM UMDT on November 1, 2009
The Deutsche Reichstag is similar to Capital Hill where the United States Congress works. The Deutsche Reichstag is where the bundestag works.
The Reichstag was funded by the French as wartime reparations. The reichstag is a
massive Neo-Renaissance building was designed by Architect Paul Wallot in 1883. On
June 9,1884, the foundation stone was laid in the ground by Wilhelm the First. The
Reichstag was finished on the end of 1894. During the whilhelminian Empire and the Weimar
Republic it was the seat of Parliament.
 The inscription above the entrance of the Reichstag was added on 23 December 1916. The inscription reads: "Dem Deutschen Volke" ("To the German People").
The railing of the Reichstag balcony is where philipp Scheidemann of the Social Democrat
and member of German Parliament declared the Republic on November 9,1918.
On February 27, 1933 the Reichetag was badly damaged by an act of arson. The was a
opportunity for the National Socialist to blame, persecute and imprison political opponents.
 On April 30,1945, the photo of a Red Army soldier raising the Soviet flag above the destroyed Reichstag.
 Rebuilding the Reichstag started in the middle of 1957. The Reichstag Dome was blown up in 1957. Rebuilding the Reichstag was finish shortly towards the end of 1972. The Post-War
rebuilding process was completed with a restored facade but without the original dome. The
Reichstag was turn-in to a museum entitled "Fragen an die Deutsche Geschichte." ("Questions
to the German History.")
At midnight on October 2,1990, the reunification of Germany was enacted at the Reichstag.
On December 2,1990, the Reichstag was the first meeting place of a newly - elected Bundestag
following the German reunification.
On June 24, 1995, The Artist Christo Vladimirov Javacheff and his wife Jeanne-Clande wrapped
the Reichstag in a edifice in fabric that lasted for two weeks.
 The Reichstag was completely renovated inside and out from the end of june 1995 until April 1999. Following a complete renovation by Architect Sir Norman Foster of Great Britain. Sir Norman
Foster turned the Reichstag into the state of the art parliamentary building, preserving only the
historical shell and adding its the glistening glass dome.
On April 19, 1999, The first Parliamentary meeting in the new German Reichstag took place.
The Bundestag has their meeting there now.
Just 150 meters North of the Brandenburg Gate is the Reichstag. The Reichstag quick elevator
to the Reichstag dome is one of the highlights of any city of Berlin visit, as much for the close-ups
of the dome and mirror clad funnel at its center. people can climb the spiraling ramp inside the dome
itself, which, by the way, sits right above the Plenary Hallo.
 Sunday October 25, 2009
Posted by: Melvin Heward at 10:54PM UMDT on October 25, 2009
Germany Judiciary goes back partly to Roman law and partly to numerous other legel sources in the German regions. In the 19th century, a uniform system of private law was created for the first time. It applied to the entire German Empire. Germany Judiciary has five major court Systems. The first court is the Local Court. The Local Court are broken down in four courts. The five Local Courts are the Civil Court, the Family Court, the Criminal Court for small crimes, the Juvenile Court for small crimes. all these courts has one judge and no jury. The Criminal Court and Juvenile Court for major crimes has no jury. The Criminal court for major crimes has one professional judge and lay judges. The second court is the Regional Court. The Regional Courts are broken down in six courts. The six Regional Courts are the Civil Court, the Commercial Court, the Criminal Court, the Juvenile Court, the Administrative Court, the Labor Court, and the Social Court. The third court is the High Regional Court. The High Regional Court are broken down in eight courts. The eight High Regional Courts are the Civil court, the Family Court, the Criminal Court, The court of the first instance for the serious crimes against the fundamental order of the State, the Higher Administrative Court, the Finance Court, the Higher Labor Court, and the Higher Social Court. The Federal Court of Justice each Federal Court has a Grand Panel with judges. The Federal Courts are the Civil matters, the Criminal matters, the Administrative, the Finance matters, the Labor matters, and the Social matters. The Federal Constitutional Court and just like in the United States of America every States has a State Constitutional Court. What is a Lay Judge? In the Federal Republic of Germany, persons are chosen from the community to serve on the bench with professional judges. In this capacity they have full powers of interrogation, deliberation, voting, and sentencing. The methods of selection of American jurors and German lay judges differ sharply. In the United States of America, statute and case law require the use of procedures which emphasize random selection. German law also specifies that lay judges are to be representative of the population; yet limited empirical research suggests that selection is a more personal procedure than in the United States of America. The willingness of a candidate lay judges to serve hinges on the degree to which the prospective jurors or lay judges are inconvenienced during the selection phase. Americans are often called into court for long periods of idle time, but a candidate for lay judge need not appear in court unless persons wishes to apply for excuse from service. At the point of assignment to hear a case, prospective jurors in the United States of America are often questioned extensively before being qualified to sit on a jury, a process that focuses on their individual experiences and characteristics, while in German lay judges are assigned in a random manner, with the possibility of disqualification if partiality is indicated. Also, in sharp contrast is the amount of time consumed in United States of America as long as 4 or 5 months in felony cases. American studies indicate that lay judges object strongly to the time consumed by selection practices, uncertainty concerning dates and lengths of service. The German system is less disruptive to the lives of lay judges. Still, it is likely that the tenure of a German lay judge, who serves about 1 day per month for 4 years, will exceed that of an American juror, who is obligated for a term of court or the length of a trial. Sunday October 18, 2009
Posted by: Melvin Heward at 5:03AM UMDT on October 18, 2009
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The Federal Republic of Germany Chancellor is similar to the President
of the United states of America. German Chancellor is not voted by the people. The German Chancellor is elected by a majority of the Bundestag in a secret ballot. Under the german Constitution the chancellor has effective political power. The German Chancellor decides on the number of ministers and appoints all cabinet ministers who, in turn, are directly responsible to the German Chancellor. The Rules of Procedure of the federal cabinet have to be approved by the German president. The German Chancellor is constitutionally responsible for setting national Policy. The German Chancellor is the chairman of the Cabinet, head of the federal Government and the federal ministers. The federal ministers run their departments independently and on their own responsibility but within the guidelines of the German Chancellor. In a coalition government, the German Chancellor must also take account of the agreement reached with the other party in the coalition. This explains why the German system of government is often referred to as a "Chancellor democracy". The German Chancellor is the only member of the government elected by German Parliament. The German Chancellor is the only one accountable for
the German Government. Under the German Constitution the Bundestag vote of no
confidence in the Chancellor must at the same time be a majority vote in favor of a
successor. For example, on 17 September 1982, the coalition broke apart, with the
four FDP ministers leaving German Chancellor cabinet. The German Chancellor continued
to head a minority government composed only of SPD members, while the FDP negotiated
a coalition with the CDU/CSU. During this time The German Chancellor also headed the
Ministry of Foreign Affairs. On 1 October 1982, parliament approved of a vote of
No-Confidence and elected the CDU chairman Helmut Kohl as the new German Chancellor.
This was the first time in the history of the Federal Republic that a German Chancellor was
ousted from office in this way.
Saturday October 10, 2009
Posted by: Melvin Heward at 10:49PM UMDT on October 10, 2009
City Of Berlin Weekly 41 a state parliament are nominated for the Federal Government Convention. The
President of Germany is elected for term of five years with the majority of votes
in the Federal Government Convention. The German President may only be reelected
once.
The President of Germany are responsible for the protocol, international relations,
and receives envoys for Federal Republic of Germany. The foreign policys as such is the
responsibility of the Federal Government of Germany in accordance with Article 59 I GG
of the German Constitution.
The Powers the President of Germany has in accordance with Article 81 GG of the German
Constitution are the following:
1. Propose to Bundestag a candidate for the office of Federal Chancellor.
(taking account of the majority situation in parliament)
2. Appoints and dismisses federal ministers.
3. May on the Federal Chancellor's proposal, dissolve the Bundestag.
4. Appoints and dismisses federal Judges.
5. Appoint and dismisses civil servant.
6. Appoint and dismisses Commissioned and non-commissioned officers of Armed forces.
7. Can Pardon convicted criminals.
8. Checks wheather laws have come about by the proper constitutional procedure.
Please Note: The Federal President of Germany is NOT elected by the people!
 Bellevue Palace the Principal residence of the Federal Germany President. Thursday October 8, 2009
Posted by: Melvin Heward at 1:33PM UMDT on October 8, 2009
Written by: Alma Melvin Heward II We have a share in the vast resources of one of the richest nations in this world. The task of building the United States is not complete, there is alot more work to be done! As an American you cannot say, " I will leave that task to someone else. Their more capable than me." You have to take part in making America stay Great and remain free too. We all have different talent thats what make our nation great. And by working together and carrying out our duties as a good American citizen, you can help sustain a great American Republic democracy. One vote in an election may make an important difference. One voice on a jury in a court may insure justice. Your part in building the great American Republic democracy is a vital one, even though it may seen small to you. No nation in this world has ever been made great because its citizens merely wished it to become great! Dreams and hopes are not fulfilled through idle wishing. They are made real through hard work! It takes hard work to turn the wheels of our American industry! It takes hard work to build homes. It´s very difficult to give your own life for the service of this Great country called the United States of America ! Nothing that's truly great has ever been accomplished without hard work and or Sacrifice! The United States of America became great because the olonists were willing to work very hard and sacrifice the own lives for us to have the freedom's we have today! The United States of America became great because the pioneers were not afraid to work hard and make difficult sacrifices! The American pioneers worked to break the trails to the West! The poineers worked very hard and with GREAT SACRIFICES to settle and build the West! The United State of America has become great because of our forefathers had great plans and worked very hard to carry them out! We the People of the United States should not forget the history of our forefathers and their great sacrifices for the United States of America. In 1620 the Pilgrims settled at the foot of Cape Cod and build the village of Plymouth. On March 5, 1770, the Boston 's bloody massacre! On December 16 ,1773, The Boston Tea Party. On May 18,1775 Paul Revere, Will Dawes, and Dr. MED Samuel Prescott warn that "The British are coming". On July 4,1776 the Declaration of Independence was adopted. On June 17,1775 the Battle of Bunker Hill. On December 25,1777 George Washington crossed the Delaware River . At Valley Forge from 1777 to 1778 the American forces settled there for the winter. On October 19, 1781, in Yorktown, the British surrendered. On September 14, 1783 The "Treaty of Paris" ended the Revolutionary War and recognized the United States of America as an independent country. From 1798 to 1800, the United States Navy was at war with France. In the war against Tripoli, the United States Navy fought from 1801 to 1805. The War of 1812 United States of America fought the British. In World War I, United States of America fought against Germany. In World War II the United State of America Military fought with great sacrifices on D-Day we lost 6,603 servicemen in just one day! The Normandy Campaign we lost 29,374 servicemen. In the Battle of the Bulge we lost 8,607 servicemen and 21,144 servicemen Missing in Action! In the Iwo Jima Campaign we lost 4,630 servicemen. THEY ALL DIED FOR YOUR FREEDOM THAT YOU ENJOY TODAY!
God Bless the
United States
of America Sunday October 4, 2009
Posted by: Melvin Heward at 6:07AM UMDT on October 4, 2009
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 The Bundesrat represent the sixteen States of Germany. The Bundesrat participates in the legislative process and administration of the federal Republic of Germany. The Bundesrat is similar to the United States of America Senate. The Bundesrat does NOT consist of ELECTED REPRESENTATIVES of the people but, of the members of the State Governments or States Representatives!! In the United States of America Senate are voted by the people in Germany it is NOT! Depending on the German State population, the state have three, four, five, or six votes which may only be cast as a Veto. More than half of all bills require the approvel of the Bundesrat. This means that a bill cannot pass into law against the Bundesrat will. An proposed amendment to the German Constitution cannot be adopted without the Bundesrat's consent. For the amendment to pass it must have two-thirds majority. In all other cases the Bundesrat only has a right of objection, but this can be overruled by the Bundestag. Under Article 51 I GG of the German Constitution: It is through the latter that German State participate in the legislative and administrative function of the Federal Republic of Germany. The members of the Bundesrat are members of the governments of the German State, they are delegated by the German State and subject to their instruction. Under Article 51 II GG of the German Constitution: Each German State has at least three votes. States with more than two million in population have four votes, States with more than six million in population have five votes, and states with more than seven million in population have six votes. Each German State Representative has one vote. The following sixteen states are below with how many Representatives each
German States have:
1. North Rhine-Westphalia has six Representatives
2. Bavaria has six Representatives
3. Baden-Wuerttemberg has six Representatives
4. Lower Saxony has six Representatives
5. Hesse has six Representatives
6. Saxony has four Representatives
7. Rheinland-Pfalz has four Representatives
8. Berlin has four Representatives
9. Schleswig-Holstein has four Representatives
10. Brandenburg has four Representatives
11. Saxony- Anhalt has four Representatives
12. Thuringia has four Respresentatives
13. Hamberg has three Representatives
14. Mecklenburg-Vorpommern has three Representatives
15. Saarland has three Representatives
16. Bremen has three Representatives
There are 69 members of the Bundesrat in all.
Sunday September 27, 2009
Posted by: Melvin Heward at 5:58AM UMDT on September 27, 2009
 The Germans have two votes the first vote is to vote for their representatives
in their district.
 The second vote is for the political party
they want to representative them.
 The representatives that are elected serve for a four year term. According to Article 38 GG, 'representatives of the whole people; they shall not be bound by any one, only by their conscience! The Bundestag principal functions are the to elect certain people for government offices, to control over the executive branch, enacting legislation, determining the budget, and giving approvals. The most important part is to representation of the people of Germany!!!!
Sunday September 20, 2009
Posted by: Melvin Heward at 7:17PM UMDT on September 20, 2009
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In Germany they had a Grand Coalition. What is a Grand Coalition? It's a parliamentary Assembly with different political parties. The Parliamentary system to function the parties have to become partners to gain a majority. So in election the CDU that is a major party in Germany and SPD is also a major party in Germany became partners as you can see below.
On the September 13, 2009 there was a televised political party debate with chancellor Angela Merkel and foreign Minister Frank Walter Steinmeier. It was very boring. The German Newspaper The Bild wrote "Yes, we yawn"
 The reason it was so boring was Chancellor Angel Merkel, CDU and her Challenger Foreign Minister Frank Walter Steinmeier, SPD are in Grand Coalition together. The Parties are partner for now. The Government can't function if they fight!!!  (We vote for Chancellor CDU ) CDU / CSU candidate is Chancellor Angela Merkel CDU is the Christian Democrats Union. CDU is an two major Christian creeds. Roman Catholicism and Protestantism. CDU is for a flat tax. CSU is the Christian Social Union. The CDU has no party association in the Free state of Bavaria, while the CSU puts up Candidates for election Bavaria only!
CSU is for Free Markets, Simpler taxes and less bureaucracy!  ( Our Country can do more.) SPD candidate is Foreign Minister Frank Walter Steinmeier SPD is Social Party Democrats. SPD is labor oriented party.  ( Germany can do it better) (FDP the Liberals)
FDP is Free Democrats Party. FDP is Liberalism and Pro-Business!  The Green Party is an environmentalists and Peace Activists!  Die Linke is a far left party.  The Left Party was the PDS. The PDS was the party of Democratic Socialism and the PDS came from the SED!!!
The SED was Socialist Unity the former German Democratic Republic.
SED was the communist party that ruled the East Germany and put
up the Berlin Wall!!!!!!
(Get out of Afghanistan) Anti-American and Anti-NATO  Sunday September 13, 2009
Posted by: Melvin Heward at 9:24PM UMDT on September 13, 2009
The German American Football League also has a playoff for the last place team of the first League vs. the first place Team in the second German American Football league. The winner of the playoff games will be in the First GFL next football season. The loser of the playoffs will go to the second league next football season. Sometimes they can move up with out playoffs. The third GFL has the same rules. The fourth League, fifth league, sixth league, and New teams league the Winner of the of their league moves up in the next football season to the next league. That way German American Football league has the strongest team in the first league.
Germany has a German American Football Magazine called the " Huddle Das Footballmagazin". The Huddle is written in German. The Huddle covers the GFL, American Colleges Football Division 1-A, NFL, and American Football in the world. The Huddle published also the AP Top 25 College Football Ratings. The Huddle also has a Top 25 College Football Division 1-A . The huddle Preseason Top 25 College Football Division 1-A for example was: 1. Florida 2. Oklahoma 3. Texas 4. USC 5. LSU 6. Ohio State 7. California 8. Mississippi 9. Penn State 10. Virginia Tech 11. Oregon 12. Oklahoma State 13. Georgia 14. TCU 15. Alabama 16. Georgia Tech 17. Rutgers 18. Kansas 19. Oregon State 20. North Carolina 21. Florida State 22. Boise State 23. Iowa 24. BYU 25. Utah Sunday September 6, 2009
Posted by: Melvin Heward at 9:12PM UMDT on September 6, 2009
The German American Football League
The German American Football League goes by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) football rules. Everything is American except the way the team are recorded by wins, ties, or lost. The Germans do the wins, ties, and lost recorded it like their soccer does. Well, folk’s this is how it works. A win is two points in the win column, a tie is one point in the win column and in the lost column, and a lost is a two points in the lost column. The Germans also add up teams Offense scores and Defense scores. The Defense score is what the other team scores against that team there play against. Here is a example: Sunday August 30, 2009
Posted by: Melvin Heward at 6:14AM UMDT on August 30, 2009
City Of Berlin Weekly 035
The city of Berlin Weekly new look! I hope like it! The city of Berlin know that the American Football season starts
The First German Women American Tackle Football League has eight teams. The city of Berlin has one team, the Berlin Kobra. Sunday August 23, 2009
Posted by: Melvin Heward at 9:31PM UMDT on August 23, 2009
The BVG means Berliner Verkehrs-Gesellschaft. In English it is translated: Berliners Transportation Partnership. Yes! Partnership! The BVG treats you just like partner would be treated. There are no ticket controller, No Transit Police, No gates, and no enclosing barriers in the Subway train station. BVG has a trusting policy to their customers! The BVG knows that not all people can be trusted! There are BVG controllers on the train sometimes. The BVG controllers do not wear uniforms sometimes BVG controllers dress up like two elderly people get on the subway train and show their I.D. card that they are BVG controllers. Then the customers have to show the BVG controllers their ticket. When a person does not have a ticket they most pay a fine of 60.00€ ($ 85.00).
The BVG tries to keep the cost down!!! There are some people that like to be destructive to buses, trams, and the trains. The BVG have to buy observation Cameras for the buses, trams, and the trains. The BVG has to repair seats, windows, doors, and even the floors. For example: When a person scratches the glass window with a sharp object it destroys the glass window. The BVG bought thin sheet of plastic and put it over the glass window. The Plastic sheet protects the glass window from being scratch. When the person scratches something on the window the BVG just take off the plastic sheet and replaces with a new one. This thin sheet of plastic saves the BVG a lot of money on glass windows!!! There are signs on the subway train that states if you see someone destroying the subway train report that person to the BVG and that you will receive 600.00€ ($840.00) in cash!! The BVG gives Free Magazine every month, free club membership, and free maps of the BVG routes. The BVG has a English website it is the one of the best information website. See the BVG website yourself: http://www.bvg.de/index.php/en/Bvg/Start The BVG has a lot of beautiful subway train stations in Berlin. The bus stops are kept clean, the trams stops are clean, and all the subway train stations are kept clean. So come to Berlin you don’t need to rent a car!!! The BVG will pick you up at the Airport! The BVG is for ALL People ALL the time. There is one more thing I would like to write about the BVG. I will not forget what the BVG bus driver did for me!! I was in the United States Army at the time and stationed in West Berlin it was 02:30 in the morning walking back to the Barracks in my Army uniform and the BVG bus driver stopped and asked me if I needed a ride to the United States Army Mc Nair Barracks. The BVG bus driver had finished his route and was going to the bus garage to park his bus for the night when he saw me. The BVG bus driver took me to the U.S. Army Barracks way out of his way too. Thank you for the Ride home!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Sunday August 16, 2009
Posted by: Melvin Heward at 9:25PM UMDT on August 16, 2009
On February 15, 1932, The Tunnel under the Spree River between Stralan and Treptow due to structural problems BVG closed it down. The BVG tested their buses, Trams, (street Cars) subway tunnels, and their subway trains for any Structural problems. The BVG wanted to serve the people in the 1930`s to the middle 1940's with best transportation system in the city of Berlin. After 1945 BVG had to rebuild Transportation System in Berlin. On night of August 13, 1961 the BVG was divided in two BVG West and BVG East until November 1, 1990. On January 01, 1992 the BVB became partners with the BVG. Today the BVG is number one in serving the Berliners and the Berlins visitors.
The BVG is trying very hard to make sure the Transportation in the City of Berlin goes smoothly. The BVG works very hard for a thank you that sometime comes not at all. No matter, the BVG keep on trying to be the best for all people and serve the customers when they need help!! The BVG are very Handicap friendly!!!!!!! Wheelchair or passengers who hold a disabled person´s pass with supplement and a valid stamp can use all of the BVG transportation FREE!!!! The BVG buses, trains, and subway trains are wheelchair friendly. The driver of the bus, train, and the subway train will help the disabled person aboard! So how many BVG Subway routes are there in Berlin? There are Ten! The ten subway train routes are as follows: U 1 From Warschauerstraße to Uhlandstraße. There are 12 subway train stations. The subway route is 8.9 kilometers long (5,55 miles.) U 2 From Pankow to Ruhleben. There are 29 subway train stations. The Subway routes is 20,7 kilometers long (12,9 miles.) U 3 From Nollendorfplatz to Krummelanke. There are 14 subway train stations. The subway routes is 12,1 kilometers long (7.6 miles.) U 4 From Nollendorfplatz to Innsbrucker Platz. There are 5 subway train stations. The subway routes is 2,9 kilometers long (1,8 miles.) U 5 From Hönow to Alexanderplatz. There are 20 subway train stations. The subway routes is 18,4 kilometers long (11,5 miles.) U 6 From Alt-Tegel to alt-Mariendorf. There are 29 subway train stations. The subway routes is 19,9 kilometers long (12,4 miles.) U 7 From Rathaus spandau to Rudow. There are 40 subway train stations. The subway routes is 31.8 kilometers long (19, 8 miles.) U 8 From Wittenau to Hermannstraße. There are 24 subway train stations. The subway routes is 18,2 kilometers long (11,4 miles.) U 9 From Osloerstraße to Rathaus Steglitz. There are 18 subway train stations. The subway routes is 12,5 kilometers long (7,8 miles.) U 55 From Hauptbahnhof to Brandenburger Tor. There are two subway train stations. The subway routes is 1, 6 kilometer long ( 1 Mile) U 55 is a new subway route. It is being built now. U 55 will be in the future U5. The BVG has 17 Metro Buses routes. What is a Metro bus? The Metro Bus is Double-decker bus or a extra long bus they run every ten minutes. There are 12 Express Buses routes. What is a Express Bus? The BVG give each bus routes a number and that number is on the bus. The Express bus has the same number as the normal bus. The different is that the Express Bus has an X in front of the routes number. For example bus routes number is 100 the Express Bus number would be X100. The Express Bus does not stop at every bus stop. The Express Bus stops only on popular bus stops. The Express Bus runs every 20 minutes. There is one Jet Express bus route. What is a Jet Express Bus? The Jet Express Bus goes to the Airports every ten minutes from 6:00 AM to 07:00 PM. After 07:00 PM the Jet Express Bus runs every 20 minutes up until 11:00 PM. There are 187.7 Kilometers (117.3 Miles) of Trams tracks in Berlin. (street cars) The Trams are Mostly in the Eastern part of Berlin. BVG has 28 Trams routes. The trams runs every 10 to 20 minutes. The BVG has six Ferry boats for people and cars. In city of Berlin the are many rivers and lakes. The three of the six ferry routes run all year around if the weather permits it! Then a customer buy a BVG ticket it paid for all Trains, Subway trains, trams, All Buses in the city and out of the city up to 15 kilometers (9.4 miles). The BVG ticket is family friendly too. The BVG ticket covers up to three children under the age of 14 years old with one adult. That right! Up to three children are FREE the adult has to pay!!! The BVG Ticket also covers your dog or cat you do not have to pay extra. Only if the customer has more then one dog or cat. What does this BVG ticket cost? Believe it or not it cost for ABC ticket one way 2.80 € (2.80 € x $1.40 = $ 3.92). The BVG reduced ticket for a bike you want to travel with or a extra dog ABC ticket cost 2.00 € more. The BVG has also saving plans for traveling in Berlin. There are many saving plans to choose from. The city of Berlin is divided in three sectors A sector is the intercity. B sector is outside the intercity sector. C sector is outside the Berlin city limits up to 15 kilometers (9.4 miles) For example: The City of Potsdam BVG ABC or BC ticket is good for all Trains, Trams, and Buses. The BVG savings Plan for you the Traveler!! The BVG saving plans are as follows: ( Please take note that the following BVG Saving Plans tickets you can travel with up to three children under the age of 14 years old FREE!!! Travel on all trains, subway trains, trams, all BVG buses in the city of Berlin unlimited times traveling.) The BVG is There to Serve you the Customer all the time. Give them a smile and thank you and you will receive one back!! The BVG 24 hours Ticket cost AB 6,10€ ( $8.54) BC 6.30€ ( $8.82) ABC 6.50€ ( $9.10) The one week BVG ticket cost AB 26.20€ ( $36.68) BC 27.00€ ( $37.80) ABC 32.30€ ( $45.22) The Cheap one monthly BVG Ticket Good only from 10:00 AM to 03:00 AM. (note up to three children under the age of six years old are Free over that age you have to pay extra) AB 51.00€ ( $71.40) BC 52.00€ ( $71.80) ABC 63.00€ ( $88.20) The Normal BVG Monthly ticket AB 72.00€ ( $100.80) BC 73.00€ ( $102.20) ABC 88.00€ ( $123.20) The BVG yearly ticket AB 670.00€ ( $938.00) BC 685.00€ ( $959.00) ABC 830.00€ ( $1162.00) Sunday August 9, 2009
Posted by: Melvin Heward at 9:53PM UMDT on August 9, 2009
City of Berlin Transportation system has lots of history! The City of Berlin Weekly would like to continue on the history of transportation in the city of Berlin. That way the reader can understand how the city of Berlin transportation systems became one of the world best transportation system. The reader can also learn how the transportation system benefits the Berliners. So that Your City can also have transportation system and you can benefit from it too. Sunday August 2, 2009
Posted by: Melvin Heward at 9:25PM UMDT on August 2, 2009
City of Berlin weekly visited the American and German Volksfest in Berlin, germany. This year the American and German Folks Festival theme is Washington - Oregon - Pacific Wonderland. This year American and German Volksfest is mostly Germans food stands so everything is very expensive! For Example: Dr. Pepper, 12 fl. oz can cost $3.50!!! It mostly believed in Germany that what comes from United States of America it must be very expensive because of shipping. The shipping cost is not that expensive. For example: German candy company here in Berlin bought candy canes from Utah to sell at the Christmas Market here in Berlin. They sold the candy canes the same price as they are in the Utah stores. The Berlin candy company made a profit even with the high import tax and renting the stand at the Christmas Market. The Germans do miss the American run food stands it wasn´t as expensive as it is now!!
The American and German Volksfest ride cost from $3.50 to as high as $6.30 for one ticket. The American and German Volksfest is the most visited Volksfest in Berlin. Berlin has very many Volksfest. The folksfest season in Berlin starts in April and does not end until December. On first of August of this year at the American and German Volksfest an eleven year old boy died on the Wild Mouse Roller coaster ride apparently of a heart attack. The boy went with his ten years old sister on the roller coaster ride. The roller coaster was travaling at the speed of 30 miles per hour. The mother and uncle were watching them on the ride went it happpen. The Uncle and Lother Grigorjew 59 years old tried give First Aid. The child died at the scene. The American and German Volkfest did not start off very well this year hope it will do better in the following weeks until sixteenth of August when it is plan to close for this year. The American and German Volksfest in Berlin has a history since July 1961 was the first American and German Volksfest. The following is the theme and the year of the American and German Volksfest in Berlin. The American and German volksfest starts on the end of July and end in the middle of August. 1. 1961 First American and German Volksfest in Berlin 2. 1962 Laramie Town 3. 1963 Old Santa Fe 4. 1964 Mayflower 5. 1965 Sacramento 6. 1966 Alamo 7. 1967 Saint Augustine 8. 1968 New Orleans 9. 1969 Los Angeles - Bridge to the stars 10. 1970 The Old Wild West 11. 1971 The Wild West 12. 1972 Hawaii 13. 1973 Las Vegas 14. 1974 San Antonio 15. 1975 Coast to Coast 16. 1976 Spirit of 76 - Birth of a nation 17. 1977 Tombstone, Arizona 18. 1978 Old San Francisco 19. 1979 Oklahoma 20. 1980 American Railroad 21. 1981 Dakota Brand lands 22. 1982 Northwest Wilderness 23. 1983 The Mighty Mississippi 24. 1984 California - Land of contrasts 25. 1985 The American Frontier 26. 1986 Broadway in Berlin 27. 1987 Amerika grüßt Berlin 28. 1988 Dallas in Dahlem 29. 1989 Mardi Gras in New Orleans 30. 1990 Alaska 31. 1991 The Native Americans 32. 1992 Sing USA - Memphis 33. 1993 Reno, Nevada 34. 1994 Montana - Big Sky Country 35. 1995 Texas 36. 1996 Massachusetts 37. 1997 Wisconsin 38. 1998 Arizona 39. 1999 Southwest USA - Oklahoma, Arizona, Colorado, and New Mexico 40. 2000 Rodeo USA 41. 2001 Rodeo Country USA 42. 2002 Florida - The Sunshine State 43. 2003 The Great Lakes 44. 2004 Deep South 45. 2005 New York 46. 2006 New Mexico 47. 2007 Los Angeles 48. 2008 Massachusetts - Indian Summer in Berlin 49. 2009 Washington - Oregon - Pacific Wonderland Saturday July 25, 2009
Posted by: Melvin Heward at 10:07PM UMDT on July 25, 2009
The real Rapid Transit System is the Subway, the underground, the Metro, or the U-bahn. The city of Berlin and Germany name it the U-Bahn. What is a Rapid Transit System? The Rapid Transit System is to eliminated vehicular, pedestrian traffic conflicts, and delays. (It means in simple English No Traffic Jams!!) The Subway System has two ways to be bulit either a elevated system or a underground system in the city of Berlin they have both. The elevated system is built above the street. The underground system is built two different ways one is the surface with the cut-and cover-method. (It means in simple English. Opened up the ground and Build the subway tunnel. When the tunnel is finish they then buried it.) The Second underground system method is to build a underground tunnel like the miner do.
The history of the subway. In Brookln, New York there is a tunnel that was made in 1844 that was used for train traffic, but there is no records of it being used for public transportation! The world's first public transportation underground system called the subway opened on January 10,1863 in the city of London, England. By the way in England the English called their subway the Underground. This was the beginning of Rapid Transit System. This is the fast lane in city public transportation!! On May 2, 1896 in Budapest, Hungary opened their subway system. The hargarian's called their subway system the Metro. On December 14, 1896 in Glasgow, Scotland opened their subway system. The Scottish called their subway system the Underground. On September 18, 1897 in boston, Massachusetts opened their subway System. The city of Boston was the first to have public transportation subway system in the United States of America. On July 19,1900 Paris, France opened their Metro system. On February 15, 1902 the City of Berlin, Germany opened their subway system. The german's called their subway system the U-bahn. ( in english this means underground Train) Yes folks, and finally comes the New Yorkers!! On October 27,1904 the city of New York in New York opened their Subway system. So you see New York was not the first, but came in seventh!! Wednesday July 22, 2009
Posted by: Melvin Heward at 8:12PM UMDT on July 22, 2009
Stop it!!!! Stop it!! Who is Racial here? It is Professor Gates and the press!!!! Saturday July 18, 2009
Posted by: Melvin Heward at 12:09PM UMDT on July 18, 2009
The City of Berlin Transportation history is not just trains and streetcars. The city of Berlin has also a history with their city buses, the Omnibus! The City of Berlin's Public transportation is the oldest in Germany. The buses were also drawn by horses just like the streetcars. So please sit back and take moment to learn about the history of the city of Berlin Omnibus.
On September 15, 1775 Simon Kremser was born. Simon Kremser place of birth was Breslau, Prussia. (Breslau is now in Poland.) On May 20, 1825 Simon Kremser had a Charabanc drawn by horses. In the Websters Dictionary Charabanc is a large open bus with seats facing forward. This means that it was the first bus line in Berlin. Simon Kremser first route was from Brandenburger Tor to Charlottenburg Palace. A city of Berlin Government councilman name Friedrich Wilhelm III gave Simon Kremser permission to run his bus in Berlin. On March 01, 1851 Simon Kremser died and was buried at Breslau, Prussia. On October 30, 1846 the first Berlin bus company was organizing it's self to try and be the best Bus line company. To plan the best bus routes in the city of Berlin. The Company name was Concessionierte Berliner Omnibus Compagnie. (in English Concessed Berlin Bus Company) On January 01, 1847 Concessionierte Berliner Omnibus Compagnie had its Grand opening with 20 buses and 120 horse serving 5 routes in Berlin. On July 01, 1868 The Allgemeinen Berliner Omnibus Actien Gesellschaft in short A.B.O.A.G. took over the bus lines in Berlin. The ABOAG began with 257 buses drawn by horses. The ABOAG had also 1089 horses. The city of Berlin was at the time growing very fast! In the year 1871 the Berlin population was 799,500 and growing! The City of Berlin need more and better transportion in the city. Then it happen and not in Berlin!! On March 18, 1895, the Netphener Omnibus gesellschaft open the world's first bus line using gasoline powered Omnibus in Netphen, Germany. The future of Bus transportation has arrived in Germany and the World!!! Go Bye Clean air and Hello to the World of Smog!!!! Saturday July 11, 2009
Posted by: Melvin Heward at 11:45PM UMDT on July 11, 2009
City of Berlin is a big city so you need to have a good transportation system. The city of Berlin has one of the best transportation systems in the World. How the city of Berlin did achieved this goal to become one of the best transportation systems in the World? Well we have to go back in history! The answer is not easy! So sit back for moment and I will try and explain where it all started. Transportation system started by a man pushing a cart. Then Man learned how to tame the horse. The horse was a lot stronger than man. The horse could carry man on it back for long distance. Man made a carriage that was pulled by the horse it was a great conveyance for the people but, not for the horse! Richard Tevithick was born on April 13, 1771. His Birth place Cornwall in South Wales. Richard Tevithick design and built the world's first full-scale working railway steam locomotive on February 21, 1804. Richard Tevithick died on April 22, 1833. He died in Dartford, kent England. The steam locomotive was very expensive to operate at that time for city transportation. The ticket would had cost more than the normal person could afford because the steam locomotive needs more cars to carry more people so in would make a profit. The Locomotive train would be to long for city transportation. The city of Berlin first railway company was name Königlich- Preußischen-Eisenbahn-Verwalfung on September 22, 1838 in short K.P.E.V. In English it means King of Prussia railways Company. On October 29, 1838 the K.P.E.V. open railway service for the public. The first train route was from train station Zehlendorf, Berlin to train station Potsdam, Brandenburg. It's about 16 kilometers in miles is 1.6 km = 1 mile so the anwser is 10 miles from the train station Zehlendorf to Potsdam train station. Johann Andreas Schubert was born on March 19, 1808. His birth place was in Wernesgrün Vogtland in the state of Saxony,Germany. He was the first German to designed and have it built the first German Steam Locomotive called the Saxonia in April 1839. Johann Andreas Schubert died on October 6, 1870 in Dresden, Germany. John Stephenson was from Philadelphia of the United States of America. John Stephenson had a great idea! John Stephenson went to New York and Harlem Railway in New York city with his idea in year 1832. His Idea was the first horse-drawn Streetcar on rails. You see the rails were smoother making it easy for the horse to pull the heavy streetcar. On a hard road the streetcar would be to heavy for the horse. So now you know that New York City was the first to have horse-drawn streetcar. The City of Berlin had their first horse-drawn streetcar on June 22, 1865. The Berliners needed a Transportation system badly Berlin was growing. The population in 1865 was over 500,000 in Berlin, Germany. The city of Berlin first horse-drawn Streetcar route was from Charlottenburg to the Brandenburg Tor. Charlottenburg Palace is about seven kilometers from the Brandenburg Tor. (around four miles.) Andrew Smith Hallidie was born on March 16, 1836. His birth place was Dunfermline, Scotland. He move to San Francisco in California and became a United States Citizen. On January 17, 1871 Andrew Smith Hallidie had the first cable car patented in New York City. The first Cable Car run was on August 1873 in San Francisco, California. GOOOD-BYE Horsey!!!! On April 24, 1900 Andrew Smith Hallidie Died in the city he loved so dearly San Francisco in California. Werner von Siemens was born on December 13, 1816. His birth place was Lenthe, Germany. Werner von Siemens built the first German electric locomotive in 1879. On May 16, 1881 was the first electric streetcar in operation in Groß-Lichterfelde, Berlin design and made by Werner von Siemens. Werner von Siemens died on December 6, 1892. He died in the city of Berlin. The first electric streetcar was the begaining of the modern Transportation age! . Saturday July 4, 2009
Posted by: Melvin Heward at 2:16AM UMDT on July 4, 2009
What is United States of America?!? It's all 50 States that makes the United States of America.
All 50 States are very different in it laws and a different understanding on the subject Pursuit of Happiness. The same difference between a Republican and Democratic. Republican believes in State control and a Democratic believes in Federal control. We the people of the United States of America have the Freedom to choose who we want to run our govenment! We have the right to vote our Sentors and our Representatives in Congress! We the people of the United States can form a more perfect Union. Establish a better Justice, to insure domestic Tranquility. Provide a better defence, improve the general Welfare. Take a strong hold on the Blessings of LIBERTY to OURSELVES and our growth in life! This is what the United States of America Constitution is all about!! When Thomas Jefferson wrote the words life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, he was not thinking of one person or one group of persons. He was thinking of all the people! I, Alma Melvin Heward II, Served in the United States Military for over 20 years for what our nation believes in. First is Freedom for all people!! We believe in equality and justice for ALL PEOPLE. We believe that everyone who is willing to help himself should have the rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. To me that is the United States of America!! I love the United States of America. I have live in Berlin, Germany for over 30 years. I have learned a lot more about Freedom and what it means here in Germany. I could not had learned about what our Freedom really means in the United States of America!!! Why? Live outside the United States and you will see what others think what freedom means them. We the people of the United States are very luckly to be Citizen of a great land. There are many people that would trade with you anytime!! There is a lot's of Want to be's here in Germany. (That is someone that want to be a United States Citizen.) There is a lot of country western clubs, American restaurants, cowboys, American flags on German cars and trucks, and American Flag on German homes, There are Germans that wants to be a soldiers of United States Army (Want to be) for example www.1stinfdiv.com german club in Berlin, Germany. They work very hard to be the best and give a great honor to Alfa Company First Battalion of the Eighteenth Infantry. The Big Red One! The First Infantry Division in the United States Army. Very nice people to meet and they paid for all military Equipment with their own money too!! Most of them were in the German Army. Their Dreams is be in the United States Army! They are super soldiers and they are great soldiers in my book. I wish them well!!! Please take the time and look at their website a lot of history of Big Red One. On the 4 July some Germans even celebrate our Independence Day. Here is letter to Barbara (my wife) and me: Dear Mrs. and Mr. Heward, I just would like to inform you about planning an American Barbecue on Saturday, 4th of July, in the afternoon from 4.p.m. to 9 p.m., of course depending on the weather because it should take place outside on our terrace. We will have Burgers, Steaks, Hot Dogs …. It would be nice to see you both here, maybe some of your friends too? Please would you contact us if it will be possible for you to come. Have a nice weekend! Kindly regards, Sibyll Moldenhauer Restaurant JANUS Ordensmeisterstr. 57 12099 Berlin Tel. 030-7513114 Fax 030-7519452 Email: office@restaurant-janus.de Website: www.restaurantjanus.de The Janus Restaurant is a top notch Restaurant excellent german food, excellent service, and they make you feel at home! Janus Restaurant inside is beautiful decorated with music instruments hanging on the ceiling and pictures on the wall of the old City Of Berlin buildings before the year 1939. If you come to Berlin then do not forget to eat at the Janus Restaurant! You won't reget it! The Janus Restaurant is next to the Tempelhof Harbor Shopping Center. The City Of Berlin Weekly Wish you all a Happy Birthday United States Of America and a Happy Independence Day!!!! What does the United States stand for?!? Only in one word. Freedom for ALL!!!!!! Sunday June 28, 2009
Posted by: Melvin Heward at 12:45AM UMDT on June 28, 2009
The city of Spandau has a ship lock nearby the Spandau Citadel. The Spandau ship lock has been there since 1572. From 1572 to 1911 the small ship lock was mostly used for people transportion and trade. In 1911 they built new ship lock because the ships were bigger, more people were using the waterways, and the germans were building the Oder-Havel Canal.
The Oder-Havel Canal was completed on June 17, 1914. The Oder-Havel Canal connects the city of Berlin to the Baltic Sea. The Baltic Sea is connected to the North Sea and the North Sea is Connected to Atlantic Ocean. This means that the Havel River is a major waterway connecting Berlin to the world. In 1993 they closed the Spandau ship lock it was beyond repair and too small for the modern ships. Now that the Spandau ship lock was close it caused the ships three hours more travaling time and money to go through Berlin. So Spandau built a very modern ship lock 110 meters long and 12,50 meters wide so the ships can travel from the upper Havel river to the lower Havel river. The Spandau ship lock was finish on July 15, 2002. Making city of Spandau a water highway to the Elbe river. In Orem, Utah they once said, "Everything is happening in Orem." Well in Spandau, Berlin you can say that too. So come see Spandau, Berlin and the beautiful City Of Berlin. You won´t reget it. It´s better than Paris, France!! Sunday June 21, 2009
Posted by: Melvin Heward at 5:41AM UMDT on June 21, 2009
Well, welcome to the spectacular City of Spandau in the state of Berlin. Spandau has Forest, Two major rivers, lots of lakes, Big Castle, and a small village called Kolk. Spandau forests are the Berliner Forest Spandau and the Gatow Forest. Spandau has two major rivers they are the Havel and the Spree. Spandau lakes are the big Glienicker Lake, Scharfe Lanke Lake, Pichels Lake, Stößen Lake, Grimnitz Lake, Big Spekte Lake, Heide Lake, Krienicke Lake, Big Mittelheide Lake, Little Mittelheide Lake, Niederheide Lake, Laßzins Lake and the Spandauer Lake. Wow, there is alot of lakes in Spandau!! Spandau castle is the Spandau Citadel. Oh yes, almost forgot the Spandau Airport is Gatow Airport it was used for the Berlin Airlift and for the Royal Air Force during the Cold War. It is close now and is used as a German Air Force Museum. The German Air force museum is FREE!!! Yes, Folks admission is free!!!!!
A Spandauer might not want to be a berliner! A Spandauer will say " We might be a Berliner but, A Berliner is NOT a Spandauer!!!!!! You see back in October 01, 1920, the City of Berlin annex the City of Spandau. So the Spandauer alway say " We are going to Berlin today!" The Spandauer just don't want to be a Berliner! The city of Spandau has a beautiful Shopping Center and business parks. There is alots of thing to see in Spandau! Spandau has over 15 Islands and Seven car ferry routes. Spandau has over five harbors and you can go on a whole day ship cruise for less then 30 dollars! The small village of Kolk is a really old village it was not damage during World War II. It is a very nice village it has a church it name is St. Marien am Behnitz and the old wall of the Village. The Spandau city hall is a very beautiful building and has a nice park in the back. Gotisches house was built in 15th century and again admission is FREE!!!!!! The City of Spandau was very modern train station and a subway station. You do not need a car in Spandau if the train don´t get you there the buses will! Transportion is very low cost! Buy one ticket is good for all transportion. This means one ticket is good for Buses, Trams, Trains, and the subway. Sunday June 14, 2009
Posted by: Melvin Heward at 9:38PM UMDT on June 14, 2009
The Saint Nikolai church in the city of Spandau was built in year of our lord 1468. The Saint Nikolai church has a great history of art and architecture as state of Berlin's last surviving example of valuable ecclesiastical hand made brick building in the Gothic style special to the Northern Germany and Brandenburg area. The Saint Nikolai church inside has furnishings, such as a very valuable bronze baptismal font built in year 1398, and a fantastic wooden pulpit. Then there is the beautiful Renaissance stone altar built by the master builder Count Lynar. The master builder Count Graf Rochus Lynar was one of the major builder of the Spandau fortress Citadel. At the beginning of polygonal choir are two two story high Chapels; the elaborate traceried gable on the South of the chapel is an addition made during the renovation of 1903. (On the outside) The well lite interior has regained its late medieval appearance since the renovation of 1958. In front of the main door of Saint Nikolai church stands the monument of Elector Joachim II, which was built in 1889. The monument is there to let people know that Elector Joachim II in 1539 conversion to Lutheranism, which took place in this church. Making Spandau the starting point for the Reformation in the March of Brandenburg! Sunday June 7, 2009
Posted by: Melvin Heward at 10:26PM UMDT on June 7, 2009
This is where it all began in around the end of B.C. the Germanic Semnones tribe lived by Havel River and Spree River. The Germanic Semnones called there little village Spandow. Spandow was located where the Havel River meets the Spree River. The Germanic Semnones made their living on fur, rye, timber, and fish trade. Saturday May 30, 2009
Posted by: Melvin Heward at 11:20PM UMDT on May 30, 2009
Köpenick does have a palace! The Köpenick Palace is on the southside of Köpenick Island. East of the Köpenick Palace, you can see the former fishing village called Kietz across the little bay called Frauentog. Today you will see A boat rental company where the Village Kietz was located.
The Köpenick Island was inhabited in the Stone Age. In the middle of the 12 centery the Prince Wendish Jacza de Copnic live on the Köpenick Island. It was also a strong hold of the Slav tribe. In 1558, the Elector Joachim II built himself a hunting lodge on the site of a totally ruin Gothic water-girt castle and later Elector Joachim II died there after a wolf hunting accident in 1571. The present Köpenick Palace was built for Prince Friedrich I in 1682, on the foundation of Elector Joachim II's hunting lodge. It was designed by the Dutch painter and architect Rutger van Langevelt in a renaissance style then prevalent in Holland. In 1730 Köpenick Palace was used as a prison and court room for the Court Martial of Prince Friedrich Wilhelm II and for First Lieutenant Han Hermann von Katte for desertion. The Court Martial was odered by Prince Friedrich Wilhelm II, father and King Friedrich Wilhelm I. First Lieutenant Han Hermann von Katte was sentence to be execution by gullotine. Prince Friedrich Wilhelm II was sentence to watch his long time best friend First Lieutenant Han Hermann von Katte be executed by the gullotine. Prince Friedrich Wilhelm II later became the King of Prussia and know as Friedrich the Great. The Köpenick Palace was also used for teaching Seminary. then in 1963 Köpenick Palace became a Museum of Art up to the present day. Thursday May 28, 2009
Posted by: Melvin Heward at 9:51AM UMDT on May 28, 2009
The town of Köpenick was first name kopanica in the 9th AD century. The Village Kopanica was on island Surrounded by the Dahme River and Spree River. The village Kopanica was inhabited by Slavs from the Laba region. Slavs were fisherman. In the first half of the 12th century Prince Jaczo de Copanic built a defense around the village. The Ascanians under Albrecht the Bear soon came and demolish the town defenses. Köpenick and its southern neighbor Kietz were first mentioned in records dating from 1209. In 1232 Köpenick was a legally a town. The town of Köpenick became a trading post. Köpenick trading business was fish, wool, and silk weaving.
Posted by: Melvin Heward at 9:51AM UMDT on May 28, 2009
The Ullsteinhaus is in Tempelhof, Berlin. The Ullstein Publishing House was build between 1925 to 1926, it was the first steel and concrete reinforced skyscraper in Berlin. Professor Eugene Schmohl was the architect of Ullstein Publishing House. The Ullsteinhaus main building has seven floors high and the clock tower has 12 floors it is 72 meters in height (236feet). The Ullstein owl which today covers many books of Ullstein Publishing House is to be seen on the entrance of the Ullsteinhaus. (By the way haus is German translated to English it means house.)
The Ullsteinhaus is located across from the Tempelhof Harbor. To get to the Ullsteinhaus from the Tempelhof Harbor you cross the Stubenrauch bridge. You can also take the subway number six to Ullsteinstasse. (Ullstein Street) In world War II Ullsteinhaus received many war fragment of all types. The main Ullsteinhaus building you can still see war scars on the building even today! The Ullsteinhaus received a second new section to the building. It took between 1993 to 1996 to build it. The new Ullsteinhaus building is nine floors high. So the Ullsteinhaus has a total of 8,000 square meters of renting space. (24,000 square feet) What can you find at Ullsteinhaus? Well lets see a Dancing School, Disco Bar, Germany’s first outpatient prostate Brach therapy Center, CAT scan Center, Medical Center, Computer Center, Schufa Holding AG, Mode Center Berlin, Very big Sport Store, restaurant, and a Café.
Posted by: Melvin Heward at 9:49AM UMDT on May 28, 2009
The first written record of Berlin was dated in the year 1237, when Cölln was mentioned for the first time in a document. Berlin was not documented until 1244, and as a town. Berlin had to wait until 1253 to be put on public record, although it is assumed that Cölln and Berlin were granted a township around the year 1230. Although Berlin and Cölln drew closer together , Frederick I took advantage of the strife between the patrician, the guilds and emerged triumphant in 1442. Frederick I dissolved the Union of the two townships. Frederick I disbanded the patrician assembly of the councilors and forbidding Berlin and Cölln to enter into alliances. Frederick I magistrate took control of the town hall. In 1443 the groundwork was laid for the a palace in Cölln. The confiscation of lands for the palace. The people of the town were finally provoked and insurrection which was subsequently known as the “Berlin Indignation” of 1447 to 1448. The upraising was doom to failure. There was no outside help for the townspeople. The proud twin towns and center of commerce became Elector’s residences Berlin and Cölln.
In 1658 the Berlin and Cölln began the built a fortification. The townspeople were conscripted to dig the entrenchments. The 80 meter wide rampart with an eight meter high main wall, a moat, thirteen bastions and six gates was completed in 1683. In 1700 the Elector Frederick III crowned himself Frederick I, King in Prussia. Prussia up to that time had only been a duchy. Berlin and Cölln suburbs sprung up and was growing fast. Friedrichswerder, Dorotheenstadt, and Friedrichstadt. On January 1, 1710, they were merged with Berlin and Cölln to form one City. The fortifications obstructed the lines of communications between the other towns and villages. In 1734 a new fortification was started. The new fortification fourteen kilometer long customs wall with fourteen gates was completed in 1736. The City Of Berlin was born. By, by, Cölln!! Berlin is the largest city in Germany and is a true metropolis. It averages 28 miles by 24 miles across. Its 880 square kilometers (about 340 square miles) is three times smaller then Rhode Island. Berlin has a very large population over 3.5 million people. Why are there so many here and coming? Quite simply because City Of Berlin offers so much opportunity to do and experience. City Of Berlin has over 55 theaters, six symphony orchestras, three opera houses, the largest musical revue theater in Europe, the largest department store in Europe. The Berlin Zoo has more species than any other zoo in the world. City Of Berlin has more than 100 American restaurants and 86% English music on the Berliners Radio’s stations. In City Of Berlin English is written everywhere. So come and see Berlin this summer and see yourself! Come to Berlin and enjoy yourself for real the City Of Berlin is always moving 24 hours a day.
Posted by: Melvin Heward at 9:41AM UMDT on May 28, 2009
In the year 1900 Haubstadt & Contag Company designed the plans for Tempelhof Harbor. Tempelhof Harbor was built between 1901 to 1908 by the construction company Held & Francke,AG. Tempelhof harbor was the most modern harbor at that time. The harbor had three big cranes that had the lift capacity of six tons. The Harbor had 12,000m2 warehouse they stored flour, sugar, oil, and tobacco. Tempelhof Harbor the Ships and boats would docked there and unload their cargo. It was very busy harbor up until April 1945.
On the April 30, 1945, Nazi SS destroyed Tempelhof Harbor by fire before the Russians enter Tempelhof. SS did not want the Russians to use the harbor for their supplies line. During the Berlin Blockade Tempelhof Harbor warehouse was used for food, coal, and oil storage. After the Berlin Blockade the West Berlin city Government rent the Tempelhof Harbor warehouse to private companies. On 2004, Tempelhof Harbor was petty well run down. The city of Berlin had no money to renovate Tempelhof Harbor. So the city of Berlin sold it to HLG Company. On October 27, 2006, HLG Münster / Berlin Company announce to the public a plan for the new Tempelhof Harbor Shopping Center. There will be six phases to build the new Tempelhof Harbor. Phase one: HLG Company and the Deutsche Industrie Bank AG, from Düsseldorf, Germany will invest over 100 million Euros in the new harbor. Phase two: Build a Big Shopping Center with over 70 shops. (It’s really a Mall folk’s!!) Phase three: Renovate Pier and docks in harbor. Phase four: Build a restaurant on Southwest side of the shopping center. Phase five: Build a new pier, docks, small shops, and restaurant on the Southeast side of the shopping center. Phase six: Build a small park and Imbiss stand for resting and relaxing on the Southwest end of the harbor. On April 5, 2007, the town of Tempelhof approved the construction plan. On April 29, 2009 the Tempelhof Harbor Shopping Center open at 06:00 in the morning the turks were there at midnight waiting six hours for it to open! There are now over 60 Shopping Centers in Berlin and more to come! Friday May 1, 2009
Posted by: Melvin Heward at 7:21AM UMDT on May 1, 2009
On September 02, 1951, the United States of America Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and the United Kingdom Secret Intelligence Service (SIS) had a plan for Rudow, West Berlin. The plan was to have espionage activities there in West Berlin. It would be like Something that you want to see in the movies but, this was not a movie it was real!! It was called Operation Gold by the CIA and Operation Stopwatch by the SIS. Operation Gold and Operation Stopwatch was to penetrate key Soviet and GDR communication via a tunnel deep below the surface of the Soviet Sector Treptow,Berlin.
On August 2, 1953, the detailed plan for Operation Gold and Operation Stopwatch were in place. The tunnel would be built in Rudow, West Berlin. The tunnel in length would be about 1,800 feet one-half of which will be in Soviet Sector Treptow, Berlin. There will be four phases to Operation Gold and Operation Stopwatch: Phase one: Construction of the warehouse with its unusually deep basement will done by the local German contractor’s in West Berlin. Phase two: United States Army Engineers Detachment will construct the tunnel. Phase three: The British will build the vertical shaft from the end of the tunnel to target telephone cables. Phase four: The British telecommunications experts make the actual wire tap. On November 11, 1922 George Blake was born in Rotterdam, Netherlands. His father was a naturalized British citizen and his mother was Dutch citizen. George Blake was a SIS agent during the Korean War he was taken prisoner by the North Koreans in Seoul, Korea. The North Koreans took George Blake to North Korea where he stayed in detention for three years. The North Koreans then doctorated George Blake in Marxism. He became a Marxist. Following his release in April 1953, Mr. Blake returned to Britain as a hero. On 15 thru 18 of December 1953, in London CIA and SIS had Conference on the Berlin tunnel. George Blake was listed as one of the SIS participants. Mr. Blake was a double agent for the KBG. Mr. Blake had passed Sergei A. Kondrashev a KBG agent a carbon copy of the minutes of an CIA-SIS conference in London on the Berlin tunnel. On January 20, 1954, Allen Welsh Dulles Chief of the CIA gave his formal approval on the Operation Gold. On 9 thru 10 of February 1954, remaining technical agreements were reached, including one to place the telegraph processing unit in Washington D.C. On the August 28,1954, the warehouse was finish. United States Army Engineer Detachment arrived to occupy the site and wait for the tunnel construction equipment to arrive. On September 2, 1954, on construction of the initial vertical shaft to the tunnel level had begun. Microphones were placed along the outer fence line of the military installation to alert the CIA and SIS personal of intruders. A steel door would be installed between the pre-amplification chamber, where the signal was isolated so that it could be amplified and sent to the warehouse for recording. The door would be locked except when individuals were actually inside the chamber which was linked by telephone with the warehouse. An area of the tunnel forty feet long was mine with plastic explosive in a garden hose hidden behind the tunnel’s liner plate. If the charge were set off, the tunnel would collapse without causing a surface explosion. (The plastic explosives in the tunnel was never used!! The reason was the CIA was under orders by United States Army General Charles L. Dasher, the United States Commandant of Berlin. General Dasher said; " If there was a possibly that the Russians might be kill or injured then you can't detonate the explosive charges in the tunnel." The CIA could not guarantee the lost of life so the tunnel was not destoryed.) On February 28, 1955, the Rudow, West Berlin tunnel was completed. The Tap chamber was finished . On August 2,1955, recording of each was begun immediately thereafter. On April 22, 1956, at 12:49 A.M. American personal at the warehouse Observation Post, using infrared night vision scopes, detected forty to fifty personal in the vicinity of the tap chamber digging at three to five - foot intervals. At 02:05 A.M. the Soviets had discovered the top of the tap chamber. Tunnel had lasted eleven months and eleven days. In 1961 George Blake was exposed as a Soviet agent by polish defector Michael Goleniewski and arrested while he was enrolled at a small language school near Beirut, Lebanon. The maximum sentence for any one offence under Section 1 of the Official Secret Act 1911 is 14 years. He was charged as five offences and also charged for 40 MI6 agents he betrayed to the Soviets. Almost all agents that were betrayed by Mr. Blake were killed. At the Old Bailey trail he was sentence to 42 years imprisonment. Mr. Blake after five years in prison he escaped. Mr. Blake fled to USSR. He divorced his wife, with whom he had three children, and started a new life in Russia. On November 11, 2007, George Blake was awarded the Order of Friendship on his 85th birthday by Valdimir Putin. Mr. Blake is now living in Moscow, Russia on a KBG pension!!!! Monday April 20, 2009
Posted by: Melvin Heward at 11:53AM UMDT on April 20, 2009
During World War II, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Joseph Stalin, and Sir Winston Churchill had a Quebec Conference to talk about the Morgenthau Plan. The Morgenthau Plan was to reduced Germany industry to 50 percent of it’s 1938 capacity, so that a militarized Germany could not re-emerge in the future.
The United Kingdom did not want to support Morgenthau Plan. For example, Sir Winston Churchill was not very happy with the Morgenthau Plan at all. Sir Winston Churchill said; “England would be chained to a dead body.” United Kingdom did not support the Morgenthau Plan. The Soviet Union and France gave 100 percent to the Morgenthau Plan. The Soviet Union occupied Eastern part of Germany gave Poland Northeast part of Germany starting at the Oder river. Northeast part of Germany contained much of Germany’s fertile land. While the British and American Zones had to rely of food imports even before the war. Western Europe had depended on the large food surpluses of Eastern Europe. These food supply routes were largely cut off by the Soviet Union the so call Iron Certain. Million of Germans people and Europeans were slowly staving. The food shortage was the most acute problems. Sir Winston Churchill was right!! President Harry S. Truman abandoned the Morgenthau Plan in September 1946. In January 21, 1947, President Harry S. Truman appointed General of the Army George Catlett Marshall as Secretary of State. George Catlett Marshall was born on December 31, 1880 in Uiontown, Pennsylvania. His death was on October 16, 1959. Secretary of State Marshall on June 5, 1947 in a speech at Harvard University he outline the Marshall Plan. On March of 1948 United States Congress passed the Economic Cooperation Act. (This was the Marshall Plan.) The Marshall Plan was to help build the economic of Europe. Soviets Union rejected the Marshall plan and for all of it’s satellite countries. (Iron Certain was now in place!) In West Berlin July 1948 to 1949 Marshall Plan was in full force. By 1948 to 1953 West Berlin started to be lot better then East Berlin to live and work. The East Berlin SED (Communist Party) started to dismantle the people’s freedom. The first was the big business to the small business to become the property of the State. The East Berliners with small business lost their independence by heavy taxes from the State. On September 6, 1948, the communist stormed chamber of the New Town Hall. The democratic political parties saw no alternative but to move the Assembly to the Western Sectors for the time being. Taken five district and made into 14 regions for better control. Religion Groups like the Junge Gemeinde were made illegal. High school students who belonged to church were often expelled by the school authorities, sometimes even shortly before school graduation. The Soviet Union push for militarization East Germany direct and indirect. The military expenditures rose and already made up around 11 percent of the national budget in 1952. Together with reparation payments, this totaled over 20 percent of the national budget. The economic policies of the SED wanted to development of very heavy industry at the expense of food and clothing. (meaning a very nice TAX INCREASE!!!!) On June 16, 1953, there were between 60 to 80 East Berliners construction workers went on strike after their superiors announced a pay cut if they didn’t meet their work quota. Their numbers quickly swelled and a general strike and protests were called for the next day. The West Berlin Radio RIAS in the American Sector reported about the East Berlin events and thus probably gave a little help to incite the uprising in other parts of East Germany. On early morning June 17, 1953 over 500,000 protesters had gathered in East Berlin, with more arriving throughout the morning. Many protests were held throughout East Germany with some work stoppages and protests in almost all industrial centers and other large cities in East Germany. SED had enough they decided to use force to stop the uprising and turned to the Soviet Union for military support. In total, over 17 Soviet divisions with over 30,000 soldiers as well as 8,550 East Berlin Police were committed. In East Berlin riots broke out in Unter den Linden and Marx-Engels-Platz, where several people were killed by Soviet troops. Around Potsdamer Platz, where several protester were shot down in cold blood by East Berlin Police!! It is still unclear how many people died that day 17th of June 1953. The Estimates of deaths that day is about over 383 people! Aftermath 106 people were executed under martial law. 1,838 injured and 5,100 arrested. From the 5,100 arrested 1,200 were later being sentenced to total of 6,000 years in prison camps. It was also some 18 Russian Soldiers refusing to shoot demonstrating workers were later executed!!! (I personally don’t call these Soviet Soldiers they are 18 Russian soldiers that are Hero in my Book). Monday April 13, 2009
Posted by: Melvin Heward at 10:50AM UMDT on April 13, 2009
On July 17, 1948 First Lieutenant Gail Halvorsen United States Air Force from Garland, Utah in the United States of America. Lt. Halvorsen is a Mormon demonstrated all the best about the Berlin Airlift. Transfer from his station at Brookley Air Force Base, Alabama, on a very short notice, Lt. Halvorsen had stuff his duffel bag with hand kerchief to deal with his very bad cold . Lt. Halvorsen park his car near the flight line and departed for Rhein-Main Air Force Base in Germany. Lt. Halvorsen after several Airlift missions he visited Berlin as passenger hoping to take movies of the airlift. While filming landing of Transport Planes from the Neukölln cemetery off the end of the Tempelhof Airport runway. Lt. Halvorsen noticed children watching the transport Planes landing and takening off.
These German children did not beg for candy like other children would have in some parts of the world. The German children there where very different they never expect nothing and they asked for nothing! Lt. Halvorsen then divided the only two sticks of gum he had left among them. Then he made the German children a promise that where there. If they returned to the Neukölln cemetery Lt. Halvorsen told the children he would drop gum and candy from his transport plane. The German children had a spokesperson a little girl with blue eyes asked him how they would recognize his transport plane. Lt. Halvorsen then said; “Well, I’ll do like I did when I was a kid over Garland, Utah.” he then told them. “I’ll fly up over a farm, wiggle the wings of the airplane at the folks, and let them know that was me in the airplane.” Now the frown was on blue eye’s face and several others standing nearby. Lt. Halvorsen said; “Now what is wrong?” It seemed so good and so clear I thought. “Vhat is Viggle?” she asked with a wrinkle on her nose. Then Lt. Halvorsen with both arms extended he gave a demonstration that could of won him an Oscar. Some of the children laugh. On July 18,1948 Lt. Halvorsen flying in Tempelhof Airport spotted the children waiting by the Neukölln cemetery he then wiggled his wings, and dropped three parachutes though the flare chute. Lt. Halvorsen very happy to have gotten away with the escapade. Then he landed his C-54 Transport Plane and had his aircraft cargo off loaded. The rest of the Story is history. The Berliners called him the Onkel Wackelflugel (Uncle Wiggly Wings) and Der Schokoladen-flieger (The Chocolate Flier). On thirteenth of August, 1948 it was a Friday of course came bad luck for the United States Air Force. In Tempelhof Airport in Berlin the clouds cover was very low, visibility was zero, and it was raining so hard that the radar could not penetrate though the rain. The aircraft controllers also lost it! One C-54 overshot the runway , crashed into a ditch at the end of the runway, and caught fire; the crew got out alive. Another big C-54 Skymaster, coming in with a maximum load of coal, landed too far down the runway. To avoid piling into the down plane that was now on fire ahead of them the pilot had to brake with all his might and blew both of his tires but, made it. Another plane C-47 Skytains coming in the pilot coming in over the housetops, saw what seemed to be a runway and let down his plane to land. Only to discovered that he’d picked an auxiliary runway that was still under construction, and he slithered and slipped in the rubber base for several precarious moments, the ground-looped his plane to a safe stop. The Aircraft Controllers began stacking up the planes coming in. (This means the airplanes circle in the air until its there turn to land.) The Americans landed on Tempelhof Airport and British landed with seaplanes on the Havel See (Havel Lake), British transport plane landed on two airports one in Gatow and other in Tegel. On May 12, 1949 The Berlin Blockade after eleven months Ended, United States: had 162,273 Flights, 1,514,067 Tons of Cargo, and 31 Servicemen killed. United Kingdom: had 238,616 Flights, 1,975,261 Tons of Cargo, and 39 servicemen killed. Five Germans lost their lives in the service of the Airlift. On May 12, 1959 the tenth anniversary of the end of the blockade. The Governor of West Berlin holds a commemoration Ceremony. In the Platz Der Luftbrücke, a semicircular space 270 yards in diameter, stands the Luftbrückendenkaml (Air Bridge Memorial) in English Airlift Memorial by Eduard Lugwig 1951. The three concrete ribs, 65 feet high, inclined to the W, Symbolize the three air corridors to Berlin. The Berliners call memorial as the `Hungerharke`(hanger rake). Sunday April 5, 2009
Posted by: Melvin Heward at 7:33PM UMDT on April 5, 2009
On October 20,1946 was the first time since march 05, 1933 that the Berliners had free elections to the parliament, the Municipal Assembly. The election were held under the supervision of the Four Powers.
On election day 92,3 per cent of Berliners went to the polls. The Social Democrats Party (SPD) won 48,7 percent, Christian Democrats Union (CDU) won 22,2, percent , Liberal Democrats Party (LDP) won 9.3 percent, and the Communists 19.8 percent of the votes. The communist (SED) fell far short of a democratic majority. Four- fifths of all Berliners had rejected SED. Berlin election could be considered a sort of example on whether Berlin’s future should be modeled on the Soviet Union way of life or the Western way of life. In the Whole year of 1946 was a year of very big setbacks for the Soviet Union. After the Communists defeat in the Berlin election the Communists wanted to retain at least the advantage they had enjoyed in the Eastern Sector (Soviet Union Sector). In 1947 the Allied foreign ministers had two conferences ended without results. The Americans had plans to stimulate economic and political recovery in Europe met with very strong resistance from the Soviet Union. On the month of February 1948 the Western Powers decided to help get at least their own Sectors economically back on their feet and establish a democratic political state. The Soviet Union very upset walked out of the Allied Control Council meeting on March 20,1948. On June 20, 1948 Three Western powers (United States, United Kingdom, and the France) decided to proceed on their own. The Western Powers introduced the Deutsche Mark (D-Mark) in the West Germany Sectors. Two days later the Soviets decreed a currency reform for it’s territory. Berlin at first had not been included in the Western currency reform because of its Four Power status. The Soviet Union tried to take the initiative in Berlin soviets did not limit its currency reform to its own sector, but tried to introduce the East Mark in the Western Sectors of Berlin as well. The consequence would have been the financial and economic incorporation of the Western Sectors into the Soviets Sector. The Western Powers seeing what the soviet Union had in mind decided to introduce the D-Mark in Western Sectors at this time West Berlin was born. East Berlin at the same time move in the dictation of the Communist Block. ( Communism the Soviet Union style) Germany and Berlin did not take the turn the Soviet Union had in mind!!! This was the beginning of the Cold War and the end of what was left of the administrative unity among the Sectors of occupation. On June 24, 1948 the Soviet Union cut off the Western Sectors completely shut of the power supply. West Berlin the lights went out !!! Literally!!!!! Hospitals were especially hard hit. Many factories had to shut down. The Red Army closed off all road to and from Berlin. There were enough food reserves to last 36 days and enough coal for 45 days. The United States Army General Lucius D. Clay acting Governor of Berlin said at the time “It was one of the most brutal attempts in recent history to use mass starvation as a means of applying political pressure.” There was no other way but to take to the airways. This transport route had not been blocked by the Soviet Union. American and British were hoping that it would be technically feasible to satisfy the economic needs of a city population of two million by means. On June 26, 1948, the largest airlift in history got under way. The Western Allies located air Cargo capacities all over the world and brought them to Germany. At first they could fly in only 120 tons of supplies a day to Berlin. Within a few weeks though they increased their daily capacity to 4,000 tons. Tegel Airport was built in the record time of only three months. *Note: To Supply Berlin the Western Allies had to fly in 12,000 tons a day for the Berliner needs! On July 01,1948 the Soviet Union withdrew from the Allied Kommandatura for good!!! The COLD WAR was born!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! East and West. The East headed in the dictation of Soviet Union Style of communism. The West went in dictation of a free Democracy. Saturday March 28, 2009
Posted by: Melvin Heward at 9:25PM UMDT on March 28, 2009
On September 12,1944, the United States, the Union of Soviet Socialist, and the United Kingdom signed the London Protocol. The Allies laid down which Sectors were to be allotted to each of the victorious powers of occupation.
The Allies concluded another agreement on November 14, 1944, on the constitution of an Allied Control Council. After their victory this joint supreme body of control for Germany as a whole was to be located in Berlin. On the May 22, 1944 the National Socialist power was defeated its member were then arrested and together with other National Socialist leaders were brought before the International Military Tribunal in Nuremberg and tried for crimes against peace and humanity! *Note ( The National Socialist is a Party it is NOT a human!!! The National Socialist Party has it bylaw and their Constitution for their member to go by. A German is human not a Nazi!!! There were German that fought against the Nazi’s before and during World War II and they were shot, hanged, and put in prison for it. The people in the Nazi Party killed 6 million Jews, killed 26 million Russian, and killed untold Mormons, Gypsy, Political prisoner, and Prisoners of War! My wife is German and she is not a Nazi either! She was born 1952 why should she have to pay for something she had not done!!! My father was murder in California does this give me the right to call the man that kill my father his children a murder! His Children did not kill my dad, HE DID!!! The Man that kill my father should pay for what he did not his children I hope I made my point!) The Berliners were now under occupation of the Soviet Army. The Berliners knew nothing of the Allied agreements. Soviet forces had conquered the city and taken charge of the administration in May and June of 1945. In the interim the Soviets had controlled the entire city. Soviets and German Communist Party (KPD) allies had taken over many of the Berlin district offices and other elements of municipal administration. Soviets had even adapted the notorious Nazi Block leader system of social control by appointing block and house leaders to report to Soviet authorities. On July 4, 1945 the Berliners saw how the London Protocol was to be carried out. The British Army move in the British Sector. The soviet Army withdrawn out of the British Sector. The British Sector was the districts of Tiergarten, Charlottenburg, Wilmersdorf, and Spandau. The United States Army move in to the American Sector. The soviet Army withdrawn out of the American Sector. The American Sector was the districts of Steglitz, Schöneberg, Tempelhof, Neukölln, and Kreuzberg. The Berliners welcomed the American and British. On 11 July 1945 the Allied Kommandatura met for the first time. Note: Corresponding to the international occupation to the capital, an Inter-Allied Governing Authority (Kommandatura) was established "to direct jointly the administration of the `Greater Berlin Area`." The Berliners still did not have the faintest idea what the future had in store for them. On 17th of July through the 2nd August, 1945 The German population were focused on the Potsdam Conference where the heads of government of the United States , the United Kingdom, and the Soviet Union. Allies resolved to disarm and demilitarize Germany completely. Allies also agreed to decentralizes the political structure and organize local self-government on a democratic basis. The territories east of the Oder and Neisse Rivers were to be placed under Polish and Soviet administration for the time being. East and West were in complete agreement about abolishing Nazism. But, Allies had no common and sufficiently precise answer to the question of what should succeed it. This dilemma soon become evident in Berlin. On 12 August 1945 The France Army came to town it was called the French Sector. The Soviet Army withdrawn out of the French Sector. The French Sector was the districts of Reinickendorf and Wedding. The Soviet Sector was the districts of Pankow, Weißensee, Prenzlauer Berg, Friedrichshain, Lichtenberg, Treptow, Mitte, and Köpenick. This was the Berlin four Sectors. http://www.dailysoft.com/berlinwall/maps/berlinwallmap_01.htm Thursday March 19, 2009
Posted by: Melvin Heward at 8:24PM UMDT on March 19, 2009
In May 1945 there were still 2.8 million people living in Berlin . The Survivors started cleaning up the war debris. The legendary rubble women were everywhere clearing away the ruins and saving the reusable materials. Roofing paper replaced broken windows. The Berliners set up temporary living quarters and workrooms. It was a matter of day to day survival.
The rubble women worked very hard they moved almost all the war debris the unserviceable materials were transported out to the Grunewald forest there they made a man made mountain. The mountain is 115 meters high (377 feet). Berliners gave the Mountain a name they called it Teufelsberg in English it means Devil’s mountain. Teufelsberg is in the middle of the flat northern European plain that stretches all the way from Warsaw, Poland to the Netherlands. Teufelsberg is unmistakably a mountain. During the Cold War Teufelsberg the United States National Security Agency (NSA) built one of its largest listening station on top of one of two peaks on Teufelsberg. (The other Teufelberg peak was for public recreation area only. The two mountain peck are like twins there about the same.) The United states Army Field Station mission was Top Secret. Their mission was to monitor the Warsaw Pact movements and commutations (landline and air). Most of Berlins never knew the real truth about the golf balls on the mountain. Berliners thought that there were Radars inside the golf balls but, they were wrong there was no radars ever there. Under the huge domes, covered and hidden by white rubber, cloth and or plastic cover skin, were set up huge (parabola)-Mirror antennas. These “big Ears” were pointed to special location for within places of the Warsaw Pack. Today Teufelsberg is a sports mountain people ride bikes, hiking, running, climbing, toboggan, ski runs downhill, fling kites, and almost anything. The Army Field Station Vet’s want to save Teufelsberg you can help too go to the following Website: http://fsbvg.homestead.com/save_teufelsberg.html Friday March 13, 2009
Posted by: Melvin Heward at 1:57PM UMDT on March 13, 2009
On May 02 ,1945 Berlin fell when the city defender Major General Helmuth Otto Lugwig Weidling surrendered to lieutenant General Vasily Ivanovich Chuikov of the Soviet 8th Guards Army as part of 1st Belorussian Front.
Six days later the German Army was finished; On May 8, 1945 Colonel General Alfred Jodl and Grand Admiral Karl Dönitz sign a unconditional and total surrender was signed at the Sovirt headquarters in Karlshorst, Berlin. However, the suffering of the Berlin’s population had not yet come to an end, for now the Red Army plundered, raped, and often wantonly murdered civilians as well. This all stop when the British and Americans came to town. Of the 250,000 buildings in Berlin before the war, 60,000 were completely destroyed or beyond repair. There was no electricity, no gas, and no running water only in a few districts on the outskirts of the city. The subway system was severely damaged in nearly 350 different places. One third of the subway running underground was under water. Only half of the 1,150 subway cars were serviceable. The streetcars were totally out of operation. Berlin was a wasteland of ruins. Streets and squares, especially at the center of the city, were covered with dead bodies, rubble, burnt out tanks and artillery. The food situation was appalling. Although the Berliners were issued with food ration cards, according to age and capacity for work, the rations were very meager. The battles in and out of the Berlin had destroyed most of the winter grain crop that had been planted in the fall. Anyone with anything valuable to sale headed for the black market. The less well off took the few trains that were still running out into the country to bargain with the farmers. They would exchanged furs, carpets, and jewelry for potatoes, flour, and a little butter at best! Even drinking water had to be hauled in from the country. When winter set in, fuel was scarce. There was hardly any coal so that the Berliners had virtually no choice but to cut down trees in the parks and avenues of the city. In may 1945 there were still 2.8 million people living in Berlin. (a little over the population of Utah for example.) Before the war the population of Berlin was 4.3 million. The survivors in Berlin set out clear the debris away to make way for a new and better City Of Berlin. |
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