Berlin History

Today is an anniversary. The Berlin Wall went up 50 years ago. Imagine a family arriving at Friedrichstraße station in

Blood red, sometimes purple, the marble’s colour was signed off by Hitler himself. It decked his grandest building, the New Reich

Their bodies were doused with petrol and incinerated in a bomb crater, here, in what is now a parking lot. Adolf

There’s a blaze of colour on Alexanderplatz. When Berlin is at its winter’s darkest, the sensation of alienation heightened by

This underground station in Kreuzberg has had many names. It was born Hasenheide in 1924, it became Kaiser-Friedrich-Platz and then

I walk through the former death strip of the Berlin Wall and relief floods through me. I don’t miss the

It’s easy to forget that Germany is a new country and that, for much of its history, the term ‘German’

You love this Viennese-styled café, but at times it fills you with grief. You were here in late autumn and

The images on the sarcophagi of the Treptower Park Soviet Memorial (Sowjetische Ehrenmal,1949) are idealised and classical, and very very

“A man is first forgotten when his name is forgotten“. So explains Gunter Demnig, the Berliner artist behind the Stolpersteine,

Berliners are not nostalgic. There is public outcry when architects propose to build in a nostalgic style (the re-construction of