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70 years later, The Battle for Berlin

Berlin, Germany.

Update: I visited this place today, and I was told that the guy at the top of the picture is Peter Unsicker, who is still at the wall-streetgallery. They have a website under that name.

Photo by Yuka Fujii

Neue Staatsbibliothek (1967-78) in Berlin, Germany, by Hans Scharoun

Department of Architecture (1962-67) of TU Berlin, Germany, by Bernhard Hermkes & Hans Scharoun

Schimmelpfeng House (1957-60) in Berlin, Germany, by Müller & Sobotka

Headquarters of Berliner Bank (1951-54) in Berlin, Germany, by Gerhard Siegmann

Residential Building designed for Interbau 1957 in Berlin, Germany, by Pierre Vago

Model of Church St Ansgar (1956-57) in Berlin, Germany, by Willy Kreuer

Jeremia Church (1963-64) in Berlin, Germany, by Bodo Fleischer

Dreieinigkeitskirche (1969-71) in Berlin, Germany, by Reinhold Barwich

View from the top of a bus, Tauentzienstraße Berlin February 1982. Anyone heard of ‘Tygers of Pan Tang’?

Duke Ellington in West Berlin, Germany on Tempelhof airfield, February 15th, 1963. AP Photo/Reichert

Ernst Reuter, socialist mayor of West Berlin, walking on railway platform. Photograph by Charles E. Steinheimer. West Berlin, Germany, May 1949.

People walking the busy streets. Photograph by Mark Kauffman. West Berlin, Germany, March 1959.