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Joseph Ben Prestel
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Historian of Europe & the Middle East | author, Emotional Cities (OUP, 2017) | current book project: Palestinians and the New Left in West Germany, 1950s-1980s
In one of those dark twists that is representative of Berlin's history, this is the very same area where the city's Sportpalast used to stand - the site of Goebbels's infamous "Total War" speech, in 1943. In 1973, it was torn down and replaced by a social housing project. (3/3)
November 14, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Like so much of Palestinian history in Europe, this is a story that still needs to be told. This documentary from 1994 about youth living in the "Sozialpalast" on Pallasstraße gives a glimpse of one of the areas were Palestinians lived. (2/3)
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Rücke vor bis zur Pallasstraße
YouTube video by Ersin Cihan
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November 14, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Reposted by Joseph Ben Prestel
- Un ministre fait annuler le colloque scientifique "La Palestine et l’Europe: poids du passé et dynamiques contemporaines" qui devait se tenir au Collège de France les 13 et 14 novembre.
November 9, 2025 at 7:58 PM