Late in the evening of this day, July 6, in 1926 a group of large lorries parked on Berlin’s Pariser Platz and a group of men began unloading their heavy cargo. Admittedly, their hard work came with a perk: the said cargo was an attractive young lady. By the morning the next day, Berlin got itself a new and very much centrally located artwork, which was to cause slight commotion among both residents and city visitors.
Many passers-by walking down the middle-strip of Unter den Linden where it meets Pariser Platz in the small hours of July 7, came to a sudden halt. Where, normally, their view of Brandenburger Tor would have been quite unobscured, a pair of oversized round buttocks and shapely legs stood between them and city’s best-known landmark…