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manta22 said:
One more- Brandenburg Gate 1954.

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Fabulous! This is taken at the edge of the Tiergarten looking east into the Pariser Platz and the Unter den Linden. Note absence of the Quadriga from the top of the gate, blown apart by the Soviets! A lot more tourists there these days and a replica of the Quadriga back in place. Remarkably, the East and West German governments jointly funded the replacement of the Quadriga, although the Iron Cross in the staff was left off as the Osties were sensitive to symbols of imperialistic power!

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Frog said:
Same place 90 years ago :

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Wurger said:

the source: the net.
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Great to see these pictures. Both views looking toward the west from Pariser Platz, note the Quadriga in place in the bottom picture, having taken a few hits. You can tell which side of the gate you're on as the Quadriga faces east. The building to the right of the gate, badly battered in the bottom image was an extension of Albert Speer's Armaments Ministry. To the left of the gate from this side was the US Embassy that sat next to private apartments. Both Speer and Goebbels had apartments here that overlooked the road behind.

Today, Pariser Platz even has the pretty fountains working again...

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The rebuilt Quadriga, with its Iron Cross refitted after those sensitive Easterners objected to it!

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Pariser Platz looking toward the Unter den Linden in 2019. I remember the first time I went to Berlin was just after the wall came down and this area still looked empty and unkempt, with the Adlon Hotel to the right an empty building site - the current hotel is a reproduction as after the war, the original was not rebuilt, and this entire area became out of bounds once the wall was built in 1961. Here and there were people who had set up tables selling anything to do with the DDR or Soviet Union just to make some money as times were hard following the DDR's collapse.

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May 1963- Berlin, West Germany. Memorial to "The Unknown Refugee", a young man found floating in the River Spree. He was trying to swim across the river to freedom in the West. The VOPO patrol boats tried to prevent people from crossing the river by shooting them dead.
This was a deadly dangerous time; our Corporal missile battalion had the responsibility of destroying Soviet and Warsaw Pact armor (tanks) that would invade West Europe through the Fulda Gap.
 
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