Drill Hall and cemetery

Posted on July 17, 2008 - Filed Under Berlin | Leave a Comment

Since German re-unification in 1990, Berlin has been subject to a building boom and has developed at such a rapid pace, similarly to the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries when the city also experienced a building boom, which gave Karl Scheffer cause to remark in his 1910 book  Berlin, Ein Stadtschicksal that:
Berlin ist eine […]

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Pestalozzi-Fröbel-Haus

Posted on July 13, 2008 - Filed Under Berlin | 1 Comment

The Pestalozzi-Fröbel-Haus buildings, constructed in 1898.
I pass by here quite regularly and I always find looking at the figures up on the columns, cheers up my day.

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More information on the Pestalozzi-Fröbel-Haus can be found Here!

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Memorial

Posted on July 11, 2008 - Filed Under Berlin, Berliners | 1 Comment

Because of its history, Germany has a special responsibility to actively oppose the violation of gay men’s and lesbian’s rights. When I first read those words, I have to admit it made my skin tingle and I felt a pang of pride within me. Sixty-three years after the end of the war and nearly forty […]

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