Berlin

Description:

Berlin is a city of fragments and ghosts, a laboratory of ideas, the fount of both the brightest and darkest designs of history's most bloody century. The once arrogant capital of Europe was devastated by Allied bombs, divided by the Wall, then reunited and reborn as one of the creative centers of the world. Today it resonates with the echo of lives lived, dreams realized, and evils executed with shocking intensity. No other city has repeatedly been so powerful and fallen so low; few other cities have been so shaped and defined by individual imaginations.

subjects: Social life and customs,  History,  Description and travel,  HISTORY / Europe / Germany,  History of europe,  Germany,  Manners and customs,  Travel,  Berlin (germany), history,  Germany, civilization,  Berlin (germany), social life and customs,  Berlin (germany), politics and government,  Berlin (germany), description and travel,  Civilization,  Politics and government

People: Christopher Isherwood,  David Bowie (1947-2016),  Leni Riefenstahl,  Marlene Dietrich (1901-1992),  Albert Speer,  Joseph Goebbels (1897-1945)

Places: Berlin (Germany)