Gallery 3: Potsdamer Platz
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February 1995: Potsdamer Platz from Hotel Esplanade
Related excerpts:
"Twelve years of Fascism, a war, forty-five years of Communism. See what it does to physical heritage. East Berlin received a terrible dressing down. We are determined to make it great again." (p. 100)
"What about Potsdamer Platz, a place one filled with throngs of people? Potsdamer Platz, the heart of Berlin before the bombs rained down. After the annihilation it was a collection of ghostly black and burned out shells. The little that remained after the war was dynamited away, the bricks recovered and recycled into utilitarian structures someplace else. Greatness reprocessed into dullness." (p. 116)
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