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I didn't take many photographs this trip. I'm not sure why. I did take a lot of photos this day but none of them made an impression on me as much as this one. On the sidewalks of Berlin, in front of the buildings where Jews were taken away to the camps, there are these brass blocks embedded into the sidewalks with the names of the people who were taken away. There was the Holocaust memorial, the Jewish Museum, and the Museum of Terror on the site of the Nazi era SS Headquarters. But these little brass blocks are real, and terrifying, because there were thousands of them. Thousands. Thousands....