Now this is the monument in Berlin where I spent an afternoon of peace and silence with lots of youngsters from all over the world. The remembrance rooms are underground, and time sort of vanishes . I sat in one room on one of the stones, listening to the four stories , one for each photo on the walls. One story inspired Shostakovitch. I stared at the photo of that ditch, saw the soldiers, the bodies. Reality out of time. Time.