He chose a spot near the famed Brandenburg Gate, so he's getting questions about history.
Meanwhile, on the roads around Berlin's Brandenburg Gate, Russia's defending champion Olga Kaniskina won the women's 20km walk title, beating Ireland's Olive Loughnane.
Some 200, 000 Germans gathered at the Brandenburg Gate in a show of sympathy, some holding small American flags, others holding little figurines of doves -- the symbol of peace.
Organisers are hoping the first World Cup to be played on African soil will produce 'Football for a Better World' and Fifa will flag up preparations on Friday at Berlin's Brandenburg Gate.
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Which is why, on 26 November - 50 years on - we, the German survivors, will march, waddle, limp or roll in wheelchairs from the Brandenburg Gate to the Federal Chancellery in Berlin.
Welcomed by about 1, 000 well-wishers, a military band and tri-service guard of honour, the Queen was given a porcelain model of the Brandenburg Gate and the duke a wristwatch by President Kohler and his wife, Eva Luise.
Revellers in the city centre greeted the new year by eating 12 grapes in time with the chimes at Madrid's central Puerta del Sol clock in a national tradition, while hundreds of thousands partied in Berlin to live music in the landmark Brandenburg Gate.
Even many Germans who back a Holocaust memorial in principle question the form it is most likely to take a labyrinth of some 2, 500 concrete pillars spreading across a plot of 20, 000 square metres between the Brandenburg Gate and the (unmarked) site of Hitler's bunker.
In July he flew to Europe on a plane that looked remarkably like Air Force One and delivered a public address to hundreds of thousands of swooning Germans (his plans to give his speech at the Brandenburg Gate were eventually foiled, so he had to make do with a lesser monument).
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