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  1. Die Amis arrive!

    2021-09-16 13:26:00 UTC

    Photo by James Jarche/Paul Popper/Popperfoto. Berlin, 1945 Nach Kriegsende: an American Sherman tank is parked in front of a S-Bahn station with a shattered apartment building and a destroyed tram stop background. Next to it, the tank’s crew stand in a relaxed pose and a few metres away a…


  2. Steglitz • The Titania-Palast

    2019-12-29 18:57:49 UTC

    Located at Gutsmuthsstraße 27/28 ecke Schloßstraße 4/5, the Titania-Palast is a cinema-theatre and concerts hall built in the south-western Berlin suburb of Steglitz during the 1920s decade. It was one of the icons of this area, a place of reference to culture life in the German capital The Titania-Palast cinema-theatre…


  3. Berlin unter Bomben • Steglitz (III)

    2019-12-09 16:31:00 UTC

    After the end of the Second World War and with the Iron Curtain already instaured, and the subsequent division of the city into four sectors, Berlin Steglitz continued its reconstruction work as an essential part of the US occupation zone. But that effort and money went principally to the main…


  4. Berlin unter Bomben • Steglitz (II)

    2019-11-17 17:12:00 UTC

    [Photo: Getty images.] In the aftermath of the war, Berliners began the long and arduous reconstruction task. From August 2, 1945, the suburb of Steglitz became part of the administrative US sector of the city, in the new division of Postwar Germany decided by the Western Allies and the Soviet…


  5. Berlin unter Bomben • Steglitz

    2019-10-28 19:46:00 UTC

    ‘steht nichts’ [Photo: Trustees of the IWM / Tony Redding. Life and Death in Bomber Command. Fonthill Media, 2013.] [Berlin 1/2 March 1943: this night oblique taken by an RAF bomber during the raid shows smoke drifting from fires in the Steglitz area (A) and a concentration of fires around


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