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1. Wittenbergplatz’s back to life

   2024-09-29 16:28:44 UTC

   Berlin, Sommer 1945 Photo: US NARA. In this original colour footage we can see the bombed out and ruined U-Bhf Wittenbergplatz’s entrance hall and its original yellow mustard interior walls (built in 1912), following the end of the war and the reactivation of part of the underground train service in…

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2. Wittenbergplatz post-1945

   2023-02-26 16:17:00 UTC

   Year Zero: the sea of rubble and ruins that Tauentzienstr. has become by war’s end, seen from Wittenbergplatz with the heavily damaged Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church in the far background. Photo by Walter Gircke/ullstein bild. At the end of the Second World War in Europe in May 1945, Berlin became…

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