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BERLIN COMPANION PUBLIC ANNOUNCEMENT 1923
Another gentle reminder that should you currently be time-travelling through the 1920s Berlin, you might want to use the Elektrische (street trams) now…
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THE BERLIN WALL OF 1842: VANISHED CITY GATES
“Back then the city was still surrounded by a wall and right outside almost all of the city gates lay meadows and fields. That was, naturally, also the…
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Potsdam, Piccadilly and Vaterland: Who and why "rebranded" Berlin's legendary building?
Berlin’s tourist magnet Haus Vaterland at Potsdamer Platz was in fact a revamped version of an older building. Haus Postdam - designed by the architect…
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PACK DIE BADEHOSE EIN (PACK YOUR SWIMMING TRUNKS) - OFF TO WANNSEE IN 1930
Taken on a hot summer day in 1930, when Berlin was already being shaken by more and more palpable tremors of the 1929 world financial crisis as well as…
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NOW YOU SEE IT, NOW YOU DON'T: OR WHY BERLIN'S FIRST U-BAHN LINE VANISHES BETWEEN SCHÖNEBERG AND CHARLOTTENBURG
It is unclear who took this stunning photo of Bülowstraße in 1903 - back when Schöneberg was not part of Berlin yet - but he or she definitely knew the…
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THE BERLIN WALL OF 1842: VANISHED CITY GATES
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NO BOATS IN LUISENSTADT: BERLIN'S VANISHED CANAL
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BERLIN TRANSIT: THE FORGOTTEN SECRET OF BAHNHOF "PRINZENSTRAßE" IN KREUZBERG
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Potsdam, Piccadilly and Vaterland: Who and why "rebranded" Berlin's legendary building?
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COOL TO THE BONE: THE STORY OF THE RABID BARON
Ehrenfried Günther Baron von Hünefeld, scion of old German nobility and a daredevil per excellence, was the most unlikely aviation hero ever. Born with…
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NO BOATS IN LUISENSTADT: BERLIN'S VANISHED CANAL
Today Berlin has seven canals used as official waterways. One of them, Neuköllner Schifffahrtskanal, is the property of Berlin (as in the Federal State…
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BERLIN TRANSIT: THE FORGOTTEN SECRET OF BAHNHOF "PRINZENSTRAßE" IN KREUZBERG
"Sachsengänger" (lit. Saxony-travellers) or Polish seasonal workers who helped out during harvests in Brandenburg and Saxony, and arrived annually by…
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SHORT STORY OF A SMALL STREET: KLEINE BURGSTRAßE
Burgstraße is easy to find. Coming from Unter den Linden, head for the Berliner Dom and cross any of the two bridges flanking it from the east…
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BERLIN NOW & THEN: PLEASE MIND THE WALL
A peaceful day at the Wall: photo taken on the corner of Leuschnerdamm and Waldemarstraße in the 1960s, when Engelbecken had become the border and the…
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VANISHED BERLIN: FROM THE CITY MOAT TO THE RAILWAY STATION
What is underneath Berlin's Bahnhof Alexanderplatz
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BERLIN IN MARCH 1920: HOW THE "GENERALSTREIK" ENDED THE COUP
In 2020, four years ago from now, our everyday lives were turned upside down by the worldwide COVID pandemic – a pandemic which still has us in its…
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TODAY IN BERLIN: HERMANN CLAJUS’S FLIGHT INTO DEATH
18th of March 1933
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TODAY IN BERLIN: KAISER WILHELM I's LAST RITES
13 March 1888 in Berlin - Berlin Companion Calendar
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