Berlin, Then and Now - The Atlantic
May 9, 2015 · It’s been 70 years since the end of World War II in Europe. The German leadership signed the unconditional surrender after a final battle that flattened Berlin. Some 600,000 apartments were...
1945 in photos: Berlin rebuilds from the rubble of WWII
May 3, 2023 · On May 8, 1945, German forces surrendered to the Red Army, bringing the Second World War to a close. Almost eight decades later, a peaceful city has emerged from the rubble. Traces of war and Nazi horrors remain visible to this day, but Berlin’s landmarks now appear in …
Berlin from above: Historical aerial photos show the city from the air
Dec 2, 2022 · These beautiful aerial photographs show the changing landscape of Berlin down the years. From it's prewar splendour, through ruins and back again. Historical aerial view of Kreuzberg, around 1958. Photo: Imago/Gerhard Leber.
Then-and-Now Photos of Communist Berlin - PetaPixel
Aug 8, 2019 · To mark 30 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall, we revisited the precise locations of 10 memorable photos taken when half of the city lay behind the Iron Curtain. The Reichstag in 1962, as...
Divided Berlin then and now: photo comparisons of the Berlin Wall
Nov 9, 2022 · Berlin has changed rapidly in the last 30 years, and it's difficult to remember what the city looked like when the Wall ran through it – here are some photo comparisons. Brandenburg Gate pictured with a warning at the sector border. Photo: Imago/Sven Simon.
Maps Mania: The Berlin Wall - Then & Now - Blogger
Oct 5, 2019 · The Berliner Morgenpost's before and after photographs were created with Knight Lab's JuxtaposeJS, a JavaScript library for comparing two pieces of similar media. The library is a great tool for highlighting 'then and now' stories that explain how people or locations have changed over time.
Berlin Before and After the Wall - DER SPIEGEL
Feb 5, 2018 · It's worth taking a look at how Berlin has changed in those years. The sliders below provide before and after images of sites located where the Berlin Wall used to run. Painted freedom: For...
Please, Don't Stop: How Berlin Started the ... - Bird In Flight
Dec 26, 2022 · Berlin has been rebuilt four times over the past hundred years: first by the Nazis, then by the Allies and Soviets. The reconstruction of the city’s eastern part launched by the German authorities after the Reunification continues to this day.
Photo Gallery: Berlin After WWII - DER SPIEGEL
Jan 10, 2012 · Following the end of World War II, photographer Hein Gorny took spectacular aerial shots of the devastated German capital. The pictures, which have just been published for the first time, give a...
Photographing Berlin — before and after the fall of the Wall
Nov 1, 2019 · After more than 20 years the “Anti-Fascist Protective Wall”, as it was known in East German propaganda, had become an immutable fact of the city’s geography, as permanent as the river Spree and...