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www.slowtravelberlin.com @slowberlin.bsky.social · Nov 13

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Prenzlauer Berg, 1971 by Jürgen Graetz

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East #Berlin, 1977 (postcard)

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www.slowtravelberlin.com @slowberlin.bsky.social · 14h

Xberg 🙂

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Who says Berlin can’t be beautiful 🤩 #berlin

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Berlin-Tiergarten, 1945 - civilians growing vegetables next to the ruins of the Reichstag.

Photographer unknown.

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www.slowtravelberlin.com @slowberlin.bsky.social · 21h

👏

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www.slowtravelberlin.com @slowberlin.bsky.social · 23h

Golden rays in an autumnal Volkspark Friedrichshain—happy Sunday everyone 🍂 #berlin

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www.slowtravelberlin.com @slowberlin.bsky.social · 1d

😂 ❤️ 👏

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www.slowtravelberlin.com @slowberlin.bsky.social · 1d

Schönhauser Allee, Prenzlauer Berg #berlin #walkingberlin

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Autumnal view over the Grunewald to the Olympic Stadium #berlin

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Ireland > Berlin

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So many pleasant Ecken

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“In Schöneberg, theatres, cabarets, and clubs catered to homosexuals, lesbians, transsexuals, and Berlin’s liberated sub-culture. The Nazis attempted to eliminate all traces of that sub-culture, but today the district is once again a centre of gay life.”

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www.slowtravelberlin.com @slowberlin.bsky.social · 2d

If it were you returning then you would presumably be seeing it through the same lens (cognitive apparatus / memories) as before. That’s interesting too since our memories change and deteriorate in the same way as history - so many details would have been lost over time. But not the main narrative.

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It’s history. Forget it at your peril.

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Some fabulous snapshots from 1920s Berlin - by Walter Ruttmann (with added colour and sound design).

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A Day in Berlin 1920s in color [60fps, Remastered] w/sound design added

YouTube video by NASS

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"Italian photographers Stefano Corso and Dario-Jacopo Laganá visited more than 200 former military locations with one goal: to document the physical traces of the Red Army in Germany."

@marcelkrueger on a project called: We Will Forget Soon...

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BIS SPÄTI #berlin

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Postcard of the modernist Kosmos Kino in East Berlin, one of the largest cinemas in the GDR. Inaugurated on October 5, 1962 and located on Karl-Marx-Allee, it was used as a premiere cinema until 1989. The building still hosts events and conferences today. #berlin