Nazi Resistors: Dietrich Bonhoeffer and the Zionskirche
At the age of 25, in 1931, Dietrich Bonhoeffer became the vicar of the Protestant Zionskirche in Berlin Mitte. What
Read moreAt the age of 25, in 1931, Dietrich Bonhoeffer became the vicar of the Protestant Zionskirche in Berlin Mitte. What
Read more‘All the streets around here were named after South American countries, so that when their soldiering grandfathers return from exile,
Read moreI am about to visit one of Berlin’s most beautiful, undiscovered and under-appreciated interiors. Take the 100 bus through the
Read moreThe commercialisation of the former Wall’s no-man’s land progresses as fast as the cranes can haul girders. Awful, says a
Read moreToday is an anniversary. The Berlin Wall went up 50 years ago. Imagine a family arriving at Friedrichstraße station in
Read moreBlood red, sometimes purple, the marble’s colour was signed off by Hitler himself. It decked his grandest building, the New Reich
Read moreTheir bodies were doused with petrol and incinerated in a bomb crater, here, in what is now a parking lot. Adolf
Read moreThere’s a blaze of colour on Alexanderplatz. When Berlin is at its winter’s darkest, the sensation of alienation heightened by
Read moreThis underground station in Kreuzberg has had many names. It was born Hasenheide in 1924, it became Kaiser-Friedrich-Platz and then
Read moreI walk through the former death strip of the Berlin Wall and relief floods through me. I don’t miss the
Read moreIt’s easy to forget that Germany is a new country and that, for much of its history, the term ‘German’
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