One place we've visited a few times is this church. I thought I'd post a couple more photos associated with it. It's a really striking site - the bombed-out old church and a new church built right along side (the new church has the cross-less statue of Jesus against the blue glass wall). World War-era destruction just isn't preserved like this in most of Berlin, understandably enough.
Here's another outside view of the church, and of a part of the ceiling inside:
Inside the newer part of the church is this charcoal drawing:
Maybe other people had heard of it, but I hadn't. It's called the 'Stalingrad Madonna,' done by a German pastor during the battle of Stalingrad in 1942 who was captured in the battle and died in a POW camp two years later. There are supposedly copies of the drawing in the UK and in Russia. The words on the right mean 'Light, Life and Love.' It is a Christian image (and the words are from the Christian Bible), but none of that is essential to the effectiveness of the image itself. The Pastor (Kurt Rueber) wrote that his aim was to represent the feeling of safety.
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