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Past and Present When Visiting
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Berlin's Emergence as a Global Fashion Leader |
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From Marlene To Mein
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Berlin's Soccer Culture: Creating a New Image of Germany |
The Potsdamer Platz Promise: Unite and Invite |
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Theater In Berlin For Today’s Visitor |
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The Turkish Community In |
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Viewing The National Socialist Past In Berlin |
| Berlin’s Juxtaposed Architecture of Commemoration |
Throughout the city of Berlin architectural styles range from old to new, Classical to Contemporary, and ugly to beautiful. There are many sites in which two or more styles are blended together; creating something that is both old and new. As one explores the city studying Berlin past and present, architecture will often serve as an example of the transitions the city has made culturally and politically. There are three spaces in Berlin in which there has been juxtaposition of modern and traditional architecture in a single space for the purpose of commemoration. The Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gedachtnis-Kirche, The Jewish Museum, and the Reichstag serve different roles within the greater community, but each building commemorates the tragedies of the past while expressing hope for the future. |
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The Holocaust
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The Remnants of Russian Occupation |
History
is never an exact science and impressions of historical circumstances are often
colored by an ideological lens. The “US
VS THEM” mentality bread during the Cold War trickled into my education and
distorted an accurate picture of the Russian satellite state— the German
Democratic Republic (GDR). After the
Berlin Wall fell, because history is written by the victors, the memory of the GDR
was quickly treated as a monolithic whole, easily stereotyped and easily
dismissed. The common wisdom of
simplified history explains that the East German predicament was as one of
initial reluctance that was easily spurred on and molded into compliance by
radical politics. After several years of
Soviet control, the East Germans were systematically pegged as complicit
ideological comrades of the Soviets and conveniently labeled Stasi members. |
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Recreational Sports
and Exercise in |
Traveling from
one country to another for long trips, one can typically find all the usual
sites in any city. There are museums of science, history or art to culinary
experiences in new restaurants. Each city has its own uniqueness and
personality to offer. In this context, |