Last night at the Burger King in the Berlin Bahnhof Paul Kieffer and I were ordering a sandwich to go. I decided to take a picture of him ordering at a the counter. When I snapped the pix the waiter strongly objected and nearly created a scene. Well he did create a scene, demanding I erase the picture from my camera.  He claimed  I was violating his 'personal sphere'. I had just been in the German Reichstag taking pictures all around and no one objected. I go into a Burger King and nearly create an international incident!

To the previous customer we had heard him speaking Polish and we wondered if his objection might not have been connected with his status within the country. You never know why some would object to something so trivial. He wasn't the object of the picture but was certainly sensitive to what was going on.

Paul and I are staying in Spandau at a hotel which was formerly the lodging for British non-commissioned officers during the Four Power occupation of Berlin. It is across the street from the spot where the famous Spandau prison was located. This prison housed the Nazi war criminals convicted during the Nuremburg war trials. The last prisoner, Rudolf Hess, committed suicide in the prison in 1987, ending the last need for the allied presence in the city.  The prison has been torn down, as well it should.

Today we are off to the Pergamon Museum. There we will visit the Seat of Satan. I'l tell you about that visit in the next post.