Activities
2. The Wall at Potsdamer Platz
Nothing sums up Berlin’s past and present better than its famous wall. It divided the city in two and changed the whole geography of Berlin. Even now, the building going on in the city centre is basically being done to overcome problems the wall caused. Potsdamer Platz is the big square in central Berlin where the new Sony Centre has been built.
Work through the site and find the dates and descriptions (listed below) which best fit these photos of Potsdamer Platz.
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Descriptions:
- Berlin in ruins – part of ‘the division of Europe and Germany’ after the war.
- ‘Its landmark must surely be Helmut Jahn’s spectacular Sony Building'.
- ‘Turned into a no-man’s land, with the wall cutting across it creating an open wound in the heart of the city’.
- ‘One of the busiest junctions in the whole of Europe’.
- ‘The Fall of the Wall – Berlin is reunified’.
