Empire Builders: Berlin
Berlin has always welcomed outsiders. But it has also been a battleground invaded by the French, taken over by the Nazis, occupied by the Russians, and then divided down the middle by competing ideologies in the Cold War. Take a look at the history of the city starting from the era of Prussian kings through to the unification of Germany under Bismarck, and in the historic decades that followed.
Berlin has always welcomed outsiders. But it has also been a battleground invaded by the French, taken over by the Nazis, occupied by the Russians, and then divided down the middle by competing ideologies in the Cold War. Take a look at the history of the city starting from the era of Prussian kings through to the unification of Germany under Bismarck, and in the historic decades that followed.
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