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Articles

Essays on Berlin's history, culture, and present.

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Mythbusting Berlin

Setting the city's most-repeated myths straight.

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A close-up of the Socialist Kiss painted on the East Side Gallery - LeO Tiresias
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What Was The Socialist Kiss? – Mythbusting Berlin
German infantry on bicycles during the invasion of the Soviet Union
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Did The Nazis Invent The Bicycle Reflector? – Mythbusting Berlin
Döner Kebab
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Was The Döner Kebab Invented In Berlin? – Mythbusting Berlin
Hertha Heuwer - the inventor of Currywurst - Public Domain
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Was Currywurst Invented In Berlin? – Mythbusting Berlin
Adolf Hitler Eastern Front
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Did Hitler Escape To Argentina In 1945? – Mythbusting Berlin
Inside the Reichstag Plenary Chamber/Image: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
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Who Was Really Responsible For The Reichstag Fire? – Mythbusting Berlin
Construction of the Berlin Wall at the Brandenburg Gate
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Who Built The Berlin Wall? – Mythbusting Berlin
Menschen am Potsdamer Platz auf der Westseite der Berliner Mauer am 11. November 1989
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Was The Fall Of The Berlin Wall An Accident? – Mythbusting Berlin
Frederick the Great - Der Konig Uberall
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Did Frederick The Great Introduce The Potato To Germany? – Mythbusting Berlin
Adolf Hitler practices his speech techniques
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Was Adolf Hitler A Drug Addict? – Mythbusting Berlin
Adolf Hitler's Alligator - Saturn
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What Happened To Adolf Hitler’s Alligator? – Mythbusting Berlin
Spanish Flu & the rise of Nazi Germany
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Did The Spanish Flu Pandemic Help The Nazis Take Power? – Mythbusting Berlin
Soviet flag on the Reichstag - 1945
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Who Really Raised The Soviet Flag On The Reichstag? – Mythbusting Berlin
Did The Nazis Invent Decaf Coffee? – Mythbusting Berlin
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Did The Nazis Invent Decaf Coffee? – Mythbusting Berlin
Checkpoint Charlie in 1989
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What Was Checkpoint Charlie? – Mythbusting Berlin
Franz Rudolf Frisching portrait in 1785 in Prussian Blue.
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Was The Colour Blue Invented In Berlin? – Mythbusting Berlin
The crowning of Wilhelm I as German Emperor and the birth of Germany in 1871
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What Was Prussia? – Mythbusting Berlin
Frederick the Great at the Battle of Zorndorf by Carl Roechling (1911)
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Was Frederick The Great Gay? – Mythbusting Berlin
The Nazi Party in parliament (1935)
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Was The Nazi Party Democratically Elected? – Mythbusting Berlin
The site of the Nazi's Operation Bernhard counterfeiting operation: KZ Sachsenhausen
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Did The Nazis Run The Largest Counterfeiting Operation In History? – Mythbusting Berlin
Women at Ravensbrück - where Elizabeth Rothschild was imprisoned and died
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Did Any Of The Rothschild Dynasty Die In The Holocaust? – Mythbusting Berlin
Berlin's Nikolaiviertel
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How Old Is Berlin? – Mythbusting Berlin
The Brandenburg Gate at night
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Why Is Berlin The Capital Of Germany? – Mythbusting Berlin
The Oath of the Horatii by Jacques-Louis David - Public Domain
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What Are The Origins Of The Nazi Salute? – Mythbusting Berlin
Surrender of Berlin - 1945
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Did The Second World War End In Berlin? – Mythbusting Berlin
Henry Ford
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Was Henry Ford A Nazi? – Mythbusting Berlin
Photograph of the Hadamar killing centre with a smoking chimney, (1941) - Hadamar Memorial Museum
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Were The Nazi Medical Experiments Useful? – Mythbusting Berlin
US Army soldiers crossing the Rhine (1945) - Public Domain
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Could The Western Allies Have Captured Berlin? – Mythbusting Berlin
Fanta advertising from the 1940s - Public Domain
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Was Fanta Invented By The Nazis? – Mythbusting Berlin
The Allied bombing of Wesel during the Second World War - Public Domain
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Were The Allied Bombings Of Germany War Crimes? – Mythbusting Berlin
Members of the Hitler Youth parade in the formation of a swastika to honor the Unknown Soldier. Germany, August 27th 1933 - Public Domain
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What Are The Origins Of The Nazi Swastika? – Mythbusting Berlin
A street battle between revolutionaries and the royal military in the Breite Strasse Street, Berlin during the March 1848 revolution - Public Domain
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What Do The Colours Of The German Flag Symbolise? – Mythbusting Berlin
Rudolf Hess (1933 & 1945) - Public Domain
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Did Rudolf Hess Really Commit Suicide? – Mythbusting Berlin
Dismantling the German experimental nuclear pile at Haigerloch (April 1945) - Public Domain
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Did The Nazis Develop Nuclear Weapons? – Mythbusting Berlin
A sign at the Berlin Wall in East Berlin (November 1961) declares, “Whoever attacks us will be destroyed," - Public Domain
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How Many People Died Trying To Escape East Germany? – Mythbusting Berlin
The remains of the Bürgerbrauhalle after an assassination attempt against Adolf Hitler in 1939 - Bundesarchiv, Bild 183-E12329 / Wagner / CC-BY-SA 3.0
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How Many Assassination Attempts On Adolf Hitler Were There? – Mythbusting Berlin
Adolf Hitler (right) and Benito Mussolini (left) in Munich, Germany, 1937 - Public Domain
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What Is The Difference Between Fascism & Nazism? – Mythbusting Berlin
Pink pipes in Berlin - Public Domain
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What Are The Pink Pipes In Berlin? – Mythbusting Berlin
German Kaiser Wilhelm II in Bruges, Belgium during the First World War - Public Domain
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What Happenened To The German Royal Family? – Mythbusting Berlin
Adolf Hitler practicing his oratory skills - Public Domain
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Was Adolf Hitler Gay? – Mythbusting Berlin
March of SA men in uniform giving the Hitler salute - on their way to Kaffelstein (1933) - State Archives of Baden-Württemberg, Wertheim State Archives SN 70 G 4135
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Did Hugo Boss Design The Nazi Uniforms? – Mythbusting Berlin
United States Air Force building a runway for Operation Vittles planes (1948) - Public Domain
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What Was The Berlin Airlift? – Mythbusting Berlin
The construction of the first actual Berlin Wall in August 1961 - Public Domain
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How Long Did It Take To Build The Berlin Wall? – Mythbusting Berlin
Adolf Hitler practicing his oratory skills - Public Domain
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Was Adolf Hitler A Freemason? – Mythbusting Berlin
The defendants at the Nuremberg Trial (1946) - Public Domain
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Who Were The Last Nazis On Trial? – Mythbusting Berlin
One of the final photos of Adolf Hitler, taken on March 20th 1945 -Public Domain
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Have Adolf Hitler’s Remains Been DNA Tested? – Mythbusting Berlin
Evidence of Jewish prisoners at Auschwitz-Birkenau being undressed and led to their deaths - Public Domain
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How Many Jews Died In The Holocaust? – Mythbusting Berlin
Prisoners at Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp attend roll call (1937) - Public Domain
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How Did The Nazi Concentration Camps Differ From The Soviet GULAG?
Adolf Hitler practicing his oratory skills - Public Domain
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Was Adolf Hitler Jewish? – Mythbusting Berlin
Soviet troops pose next to the Reichsadler as it once appeared on top of Tempelhof Airport (1934) - Public Domain
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Are There Any Nazi Statues Left In Berlin? – Mythbusting Berlin

Battle of Berlin

The final days of Hitler's city, April–May 1945.

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Potsdam Conference

Truman, Churchill, Stalin — and the shape of postwar Europe.

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Potsdam Cecilienhof
Potsdam Conference 1945
The Potsdam Conference 1945: A Day-By-Day Account
Harry Truman and Winston Churchill in Potsdam
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The Potsdam Conference: July 16th 1945 – Waiting For Stalin
The Potsdam Conference - July 17th 1945 - The Big Three
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The Potsdam Conference: July 17th 1945 – The Big Three
Potsdam Cecilienhof Entrance - July 18th 1945
Potsdam Conference 1945
The Potsdam Conference: July 18th 1945 – Dividing The Spoils
The Potsdam Conference - July 19th 1945 - The Fate Of Europe
Potsdam Conference 1945
The Potsdam Conference: July 19th 1945 – The Fate Of Europe
The Potsdam Conference - July 20th 1945 - Peace In Italy
Potsdam Conference 1945
The Potsdam Conference: July 20th 1945 – Peace In Italy
The Potsdam Conference - July 21st 1945 - Stalin Takes Ill
Potsdam Conference 1945
The Potsdam Conference: July 21st 1945 – The Polish Question
The Potsdam Conference - July 22nd 1945 - Poland Betrayed
Potsdam Conference 1945
The Potsdam Conference: July 22nd 1945 – Poland Betrayed
The Potsdam Conference - July 23rd 1945 - Koenigsberg & Prussia
Potsdam Conference 1945
The Potsdam Conference: July 23rd 1945 – Königsberg & Prussia
The Potsdam Conference - July 24th 1945 - The Nuclear Age Begins
Potsdam Conference 1945
The Potsdam Conference: July 24th 1945 – The Nuclear Age Begins
The Potsdam Conference - July 25th 1945 - Churchill Departs
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The Potsdam Conference: July 25th 1945 – Churchill Departs
The Potsdam Conference - July 26th 1945 - Potsdam Declaration
Potsdam Conference 1945
The Potsdam Conference: July 26th 1945 – The Potsdam Declaration
The Potsdam Conference - July 27th 1945 - The Price Of Peace
Potsdam Conference 1945
The Potsdam Conference: July 27th 1945 – The Price Of Peace
The Potsdam Conference - July 28th 1945 - The New Big Three
Potsdam Conference 1945
The Potsdam Conference: July 28th 1945 – The New Big Three
The Potsdam Conference - July 29th 1945 - Stalin Takes Ill
Potsdam Conference 1945
The Potsdam Conference: July 29th 1945 – Stalin Takes Ill
The Potsdam Conference - July 30th 1945 - The Little Three
Potsdam Conference 1945
The Potsdam Conference: July 30th 1945 – The Little Three
Potsdam Conference - July 31st 1945 - Settling The Polish Question
Potsdam Conference 1945
The Potsdam Conference: July 31st 1945 – Settling The Polish Question
The Potsdam Conference - August 1st 1945 - The Long Last Day
Potsdam Conference 1945
The Potsdam Conference: August 1st 1945 – The Long Last Day
Potsdam Conference - August 2nd 1945 - Truman Leaves
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The Potsdam Conference: August 2nd 1945 – The Conference Ends

Quizzes

Test your Berlin knowledge.

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Explore Berlin In Objects

Berlin's history, told through individual artefacts.

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