Kreuzberged: Berlin Companion

Kreuzberged: Berlin Companion

THE OLYMPIC BELL‘S TOUR DE FORCE

On This Day in Berlin: 16 January, 1936

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On January 16, 1936 the Olympic Bell made for the 1936 Berlin Olympics began its journey from Bochum where it had been cast to the capital of the Third Reich.

The nearly five-metre tall, 9.6-tonne hea…

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