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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…
Jun 30
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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…
Jun 24
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PACK DIE BADEHOSE EIN (PACK YOUR SWIMMING TRUNKS) - OFF TO WANNSEE IN 1930
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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…
Jun 14
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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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May 2024
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…
May 17
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COOL TO THE BONE: THE STORY OF THE RABID BARON
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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…
May 15
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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
"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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BERLIN TRANSIT: THE FORGOTTEN SECRET OF BAHNHOF "PRINZENSTRAßE" IN KREUZBERG
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April 2024
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…
Apr 24
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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…
Apr 8
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VANISHED BERLIN: FROM THE CITY MOAT TO THE RAILWAY STATION
What is underneath Berlin's Bahnhof Alexanderplatz
Apr 5
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VANISHED BERLIN: FROM THE CITY MOAT TO THE RAILWAY STATION
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March 2024
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…
Mar 22
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TODAY IN BERLIN: HERMANN CLAJUS’S FLIGHT INTO DEATH
18th of March 1933
Mar 18
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TODAY IN BERLIN: HERMANN CLAJUS’S FLIGHT INTO DEATH
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TODAY IN BERLIN: KAISER WILHELM I's LAST RITES
13 March 1888 in Berlin - Berlin Companion Calendar
Mar 13
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