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Geographical Eye Over Europe
 
The Re-Shaping of Berlin
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The Re-Shaping of Berlin

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2. The Wall at Potsdamer Platz

1. ‘One of the busiest junctions in the whole of Europe’.

 

DATE – 1930

2. Berlin in ruins – part of ‘the division of Europe and Germany’ after the war.

 

DATE – 1945

3. ‘Turned into a no-man’s land, with the wall cutting across it creating an open wound in the heart of the city’.

 

DATE – 1974

4. ‘The Fall of the Wall" -Berlin is reunified’.

 

DATE – 1989

5. ‘Its landmark must surely be Helmut Jahn’s spectacular Sony Building’.

 

DATE – 1999