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Brandenburg Gate
Modern Berlin: Blending history with modernity
Berlin Berlin skyline Central Berlin Berlin: Reichstag Berlin: Charlottenburg Palace Berlin: Brandenburg Gate Berlin Philharmonic Concert Hall Berlin street scene
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The Reichstag, Berlin.
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Parsons Weems' Fable, oil on canvas by Grant Wood, 1939; in the Amon Carter Museum of American Art. Catalog entry: The historian Mason Locke Weems, commonly known by his clerical title, Parson Weems, pulls back a curtain to point at 6-year-old George Washington. Bearing an adult head and holding an axe, George gazes blankly up at his father, Augustine, who questions his son while holding a partially cut cherry tree. All of this takes place in front of a 20th-century brick building, which Wood modeled after his own home in Iowa. The scene illustrates the fable of Washington and the cherry tree, which Weems invented in 1806 for the first president's biography. Wood playfully suggests the artifice of the tale here, presenting the story in the manner of a costumed stage play rather than a real event. Amid the action, two Black figures pick cherries in the background, a reference to Washington' slaveholding past and a reminder of of what often gets left out in historical mythmaking.
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Modern Berlin: Blending history with modernity
Overview of Berlin.
Video: Contunico © ZDF Studios GmbH, Mainz; Thumbnail © Sean Pavone/Dreamstime.com
Tour Berlin to see its arc de triomphe and its famous Unter den Linden and Kurfürstendamm avenues
Views of Berlin, including Unter den Linden, the Brandenburg Gate, and Kurfürstendamm.
Video: Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
Hitler's final days in Berlin, April 1945
As Soviet troops entered Berlin and the Battle of Berlin raged on, Adolf Hitler committed...
Video: Contunico © ZDF Studios GmbH, Mainz; Thumbnail © Romannerud/Dreamstime.com; German Federal Archives (Bundesarchiv), Bild 183-18483-0001
Understanding the Berlin blockade and airlift
Overview of the Soviet Union's blockade of West Berlin, with a detailed discussion...
Video: Contunico © ZDF Studios GmbH, Mainz; Thumbnail Air Force Historical Research Agency
Impact of the deutsche mark in Germany
Overview of the introduction of the deutsche mark in western Germany in 1948.
Video: Contunico © ZDF Studios GmbH, Mainz; Thumbnail Air Force Historical Research Agency; National Numismatic Collection, National Museum of American History
Was it possible to escape East Germany?
Overview of efforts to escape East Germany.
Video: Contunico © ZDF Studios GmbH, Mainz; Thumbnail John Waterman-Fox Photos/Hulton Archive/Getty Images
JFK's historic “Ich bin ein Berliner” speech revisited
John F. Kennedy visiting West Berlin in June 1963 and delivering his “Ich bin ein...
Video: Contunico © ZDF Studios GmbH, Mainz
The fall of the Berlin Wall
Overview of the fall of the Berlin Wall.
Video: Contunico © ZDF Studios GmbH, Mainz
How did Berlin become the capital of reunified Germany?
Overview of the decision to make Berlin—rather than Bonn—the capital of reunified...
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Berlin airlift: How “candy bombers” saved West Berlin
Learn about the Soviet blockade of West Berlin in 1948–49 and the U.S. and British...
Video: Contunico © ZDF Studios GmbH, Mainz
Witness Berliners crossing the Berlin Wall erected by the Soviet communist regime to enter West Germany
The Berlin Wall
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When was the Berlin Wall built?
Learn about the building of the Berlin Wall, which closed off access to West Berlin...
Video: Contunico © ZDF Studios GmbH, Mainz; Thumbnail WORTH/AP/REX/Shutterstock.com
Study the alarming cause of water shortages in Germany
Learn about droughts, floods, and groundwater shortages affecting Germany's water...
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The unexpected fall of the Berlin Wall explained
Learn about the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989.
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View the city and flying clouds over the sky of Berlin
Time-lapse video of Berlin, Germany.
Video: Carl Finkbeiner/visualmondo.com (A Britannica Publishing Partner)

Images

Brandenburg Gate
The Brandenburg Gate, Berlin.
© Helga Lade/Peter Arnold, Inc.
Berlin
Map showing the location of Berlin in Germany.
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
Berlin skyline
The skyline of Berlin.
© minnystock/Dreamstime.com
Central Berlin
Map of central Berlin.
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
Berlin: Reichstag
Dome atop the Reichstag, Berlin.
© Maxryazanov8/Dreamstime.com
Berlin: Charlottenburg Palace
Charlottenburg Palace, Berlin.
© Tiago Ladeira/Shutterstock.com
Berlin: Brandenburg Gate
The Brandenburg Gate, Berlin.
Skip Nall/Getty Images
Berlin Philharmonic Concert Hall
Berlin Philharmonic Concert Hall, designed by Hans Scharoun.
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin—Preussischer Kulturbesitz
Berlin street scene
Street scene viewed through public sculpture, Berlin.
© Goodshoot/Jupiterimages
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, engraving by Lazarus Gottlieb Sichling.
Courtesy Universitätsbibliothek Leipzig, Portrait Collection 21/32
Friedrich Schleiermacher
Friedrich Schleiermacher, detail of an engraving by F. Lehmann, mid-19th century.
Bildarchiv Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin
Karl Marx
Karl Marx.
From Karl Marx's Oekonomische Lehren, by Karl Kautsky, 1887
Berlin
Map of Berlin (c. 1900), from the 10th edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica.
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
Cold War
Map of Cold War Berlin.
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
Berlin Wall opening
People from East and West Berlin gathering at the Berlin Wall on November 10, 1989,...
AP Images
Berlin-Dahlem Botanical Garden and Botanical Museum
Greenhouse of the Berlin-Dahlem Botanical Garden and Botanical Museum.
Torek
Scharoun, Hans: Berlin Philharmonic Concert Hall
Berlin Philharmonic Concert Hall, designed by Hans Scharoun.
© Brian Logan/Dreamstime.com
Berlin Zoological Garden and Aquarium
The Elephant Gate at the entrance to the Berlin Zoological Garden and Aquarium.
Jean-Luc 2005
Bundesrat building
Bundesrat building, Berlin.
Andreas Steinhoff
The Charlottenburg Palace
Night view of the Charlottenburg Palace in the Charlottenburg area of Berlin, Ger.
Marek K. Misztal
Charlottenburg Palace
Charlottenburg Palace in the Charlottenburg area of Berlin.
RJH
First International Dada Fair, Berlin, 1920.
© adoc-photos—Corbis/Getty Images
Humboldt University of Berlin
Humboldt University of Berlin.
© Torsten Lauterborn (CC BY 2.0)
Jewish Museum Berlin
The Old Building of the Jewish Museum Berlin.
© paul prescott/Shutterstock.com
Eiermann, Egon: Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church
Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church, Berlin; designed by Egon Eiermann.
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (Digital File Number: LC-DIG-ppmsca-00341)
Eiermann, Egon: Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church
Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church, Berlin; designed by Egon Eiermann.
Thinkstock/Jupiterimages
New National Gallery
New National Gallery, Berlin; designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe.
Harald Kliems
Old National Gallery
Old National Gallery (Alte Nationalgalerie), Berlin.
Manfred Brückels
Reichstag fire
The Reichstag burning in Berlin on February 27, 1933.
National Archives, Washington, D.C.
Hauptschule
Rütli-Hauptschule, Berlin.
Lienhard Schulz
Lortzing, Albert
Albert Lortzing, sculpture in Tiergarten, Berlin.
Manfred Brückels
The Reichstag, Berlin.
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (Digital file no. LC-DIG-ppmsca-00332)
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