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70 years later, The Battle for Berlin

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Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church — Egon Eiermann (1961)

Berlin, Germany.

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West Berlin 1988: The Wall provided a ‘Bohemian’ back-street which stretched right across the city.

Update: I visited this place today, and I was told that the guy at the top of the picture is Peter Unsicker, who is still at the wall-streetgallery. They have a website under that name.

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Repost.

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Otto Piene – Berlin 1984 (für die Eröffnung der Ausstellung “Die Zukunft der Metropolen: Paris – London – Berlin”, Ernst-Reuter-Platz, Berlin, 1984) Foto: Otto Piene Archiv / ZERO foundation

(via URBANOPHIL)

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David Sylvian and Ryuichi Sakamoto in front of the Berlin Wall during the Brilliant Tress recording session, 1983.

Photo by Yuka Fujii

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Neue Staatsbibliothek (1967-78) in Berlin, Germany, by Hans Scharoun

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Department of Architecture (1962-67) of TU Berlin, Germany, by Bernhard Hermkes & Hans Scharoun

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Schimmelpfeng House (1957-60) in Berlin, Germany, by Müller & Sobotka

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Headquarters of Berliner Bank (1951-54) in Berlin, Germany, by Gerhard Siegmann

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Residential Building designed for Interbau 1957 in Berlin, Germany, by Pierre Vago

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Model of Church St Ansgar (1956-57) in Berlin, Germany, by Willy Kreuer

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Jeremia Church (1963-64) in Berlin, Germany, by Bodo Fleischer

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Dreieinigkeitskirche (1969-71) in Berlin, Germany, by Reinhold Barwich

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View from the top of a bus, Tauentzienstraße Berlin February 1982. Anyone heard of ‘Tygers of Pan Tang’?

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Duke Ellington in West Berlin, Germany on Tempelhof airfield, February 15th, 1963. AP Photo/Reichert

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Ernst Reuter, socialist mayor of West Berlin, walking on railway platform. Photograph by Charles E. Steinheimer. West Berlin, Germany, May 1949.

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People walking the busy streets. Photograph by Mark Kauffman. West Berlin, Germany, March 1959.