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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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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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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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NOW YOU SEE IT, NOW YOU DON'T: OR WHY BERLIN'S FIRST U-BAHN LINE VANISHES BETWEEN SCHÖNEBERG AND CHARLOTTENBURG
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BERLIN IN MARCH 1920: HOW THE "GENERALSTREIK" ENDED THE COUP
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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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VANISHED BERLIN: KÖLLNISCHE STRAßE
Try searching for Köllnische Straße in Berlin today and you will be directed to Niederschöneweide in Treptow-Köpenick. But Berlin – or, to be more…
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A ROSE UNDER ANY OTHER NAME: BERLINER KNEIPE
Schenke Budike Pinte Gasthaus Restaurant Groß-Destille Bierschwemme Kaschemme Ausspannung These are old words you would have used and encountered once…
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THE MIRRORED WORLD OF BERLIN-PRENZLAUER BERG
The Secret of the Senefeld Memorial
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