Just south of the Brandenburg Gate lies Berlin’s Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, or more simply, their Holocaust Memorial.  It consists of 2,711 concrete blocks taking up an entire city block.  Some are all the way into the ground, some are 12 feet high.  The architect picked the number 2711 at random because there was no reason for the number of Jews murdered, thus he shouldn’t try and put meaning into such a meaningless act.

It sits just a block from the Brandenburg Gate and Reichstag (Germany’s Capitol building) to constantly remind politicians what can happen when power is abused.