display for decades shops here have been selling old fashion from paris shoes handmade in italy or pricey jewelry with diamonds from botswana and of course it is home to the world famous divi the department store off the west as it is called it is here that people from the g.d.r. and east berlin flocked to the border was open in order to see what had been unavailable to them to see what they have been craving for decades and you have to keep in mind that the west german government gave each east german citizen upon this 1st crossing of the border into the west a $100.00 for marks to spend and if you have a little extra cash well why not spend it on one of europe's most famous shopping