Friday, October 31, 2008

Bonn (Day 2): "ich bin ein Berliner"

Sehr geehrte Damen und Herren, das ist ein Berliner.

We finally tasted the Berliner, a jelly-filled German delicacy.

The phrase "Ich bin ein Berliner" holds a special place in the post-war US and Germany relation, and we always wondered why people made a fuss about this (supposedly grammatically correct) sentence in JFK's speech in West Berlin in 1963.

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