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title : The Ghosts of Berlin : Confronting German History in
the Urban Landscape
author : Ladd, Brian.
publisher : University of Chicago Press
isbn10 | asin : 0226467627
print isbn13 : 9780226467627
ebook isbn13 : 9780226467603
language : English
subject City planning--Germany--Berlin, Urbanization--
Germany--Berlin--History, City and town life--
Germany--Berlin--History, Urban ecology--
Germany--Berlin.
publication date : 1998
lcc : HT169.G32B4127 1998eb
ddc : 307.1/216/0943155
subject : City planning--Germany--Berlin, Urbanization--
Germany--Berlin--History, City and town life--
Germany--Berlin--History, Urban ecology--
Germany--Berlin.
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The Ghosts of Berlin
Brian Ladd
Confronting German History in the Urban Landscape
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The University of Chicago Press, Chicago 60637
The University of Chicago Press, Ltd., London
© 1997 by The University of Chicago
All rights reserved. Published 1997
Paperback edition 1998
Printed in the United States of America
06 05 04 03 02 01 00 99 98 5 4 3 2
ISBN: 0-226-46761-9 (cloth)
ISBN: 0-226-46762-7 (paperback)
Frontispiece: Berlin Wall and Potsdamer Platz, 1966, looking east. Photo courtesy of Landesbildstelle. The map facing
page 1 is by Ellen Cesarski. Uncredited photographs are by the author.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Ladd, Brian, 1957
The ghosts of Berlin: confronting German history in the urban
landscape / Brian Ladd.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-226-46761-9 (alk. paper)
1. City planningGermanyBerlin. 2. UrbanizationGermany
BerlinHistory. 3. City and town LifeGermanyBerlinHistory.
4. Urban ecologyGermanyBerlin. I. Title.
HT169.G32B4127 1997
307.1'216'0943155dc20 96-28562
CIP
The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of the American National Standard for Information
Sciences Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48-1992.
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Acknowledgments
Berlinersespecially those typical Berliners who come from somewhere elselove to talk about their city. I have borrowed
ideas from friends and strangers alike and in many cases have conveniently forgotten whom to credit. For assistance
offered in their particular areas of expertise, however, I would like to thank Michael S. Cullen, Frank Dingel, Eberhard
Elfert, Alfred Kernd'l, Annette Tietenberg, Helmut Trotnow, Johannes Tuchel, James J. Ward, and Horst Weiss.
The Free University's Berlin Program for Advanced German and European Studies brought me to Berlin to do another
projectbut it brought me to Berlin. The American Council of Learned Societies supported a summer research trip to
study the Wall. I profited from the use of newspaper archives at the Free University's Otto-Suhr-Institut, the Humboldt
University, the Tageszeitung, the Aktives Museum Faschismus und Widerstand, and the Gedenkstätte Deutscher
Widerstand.
I am especially grateful to those who read and commented on all or part of the manuscript: Richard Bodek, Donna
Harsch, Claus Käpplinger, Daniel Mattern, Dan Sherman, Ray Stokes, Sam Tanenhaus, and the Press's anonymous
reviewers. Karen Wilson and the staff of the University of Chicago Press guided the manuscript through a lengthy but
useful review process. Finally, Louise Burkhart was my most careful and relentless critic and supporter. This book is for
her and for Clare, whose imminent arrival spurred me to completion of the manuscript and whose presence keeps me
from brooding about faraway cities.
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Contents
Illustrations vii
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction 1
1 7
Berlin Walls
2 41
Old Berlin
3 83
Metropolis
4 127
Nazi Berlin
5 175
Divided Berlin
6 217
Capital of the New Germany
Chronology of Berlin's History 237
Notes 247
Bibliography 257
Index 261
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Illustrations
Central Berlin in the 1990s Facing page 1
1 Pieces of Wall, Brehmestrasse, Berlin-Pankow, 1991 8
2 Vendor selling pieces of Berlin Wall 9
3 Berlin's districts 14
4 Berlin Wall being built 17
5 Postcard: "Greetings from Berlin" 20
6 Allied sectors of Berlin 21
7 Crosses at the Wall near the Reichstag 24
8 Memorial to slain border guards, East Berlin 25
9 Berlin Wall, 1983 26
10 Wall graffiti 27
11 East Side Gallery 36
12 Scaffolding and canvas facade on site of royal palace, 1993 42
13 Nikolai Quarter 45
14 Berlin, 1737 49
15 Royal palace 50
16 Marx-Engels-Platz and Palace of the Republic 58
17 Brandenburg Gate, 1898 72
18 Brandenburg Gate, 1959 77
19 Brandenburg Gate, November 1989 78
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20 Reichstag, circa 1901 87
21 Reichstag, after 1945 90
22 Wrapped Reichstag, 1995 93
23 Aerial view of central Berlin, 1939 97
24 Eighteenth-century houses in Potsdam 99
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25 Turn-of-the-century apartment buildings, Nürnberger Platz, Berlin-Wilmersdorf 102
26 Britz Horseshoe Estate 104
27 Wertheim department store on Leipziger Platz 113
28 Potsdamer Platz, circa 1930 117
29 Potsdamer Platz, 1972 121
30 Potsdamer Platz and Columbus Haus, circa 1933 123
31 New Reich chancellery 130
32 Removal of chancellery bunker, 1987 131
33 Site of Hitler's bunker, 1995 134
34 Model of "Germania" 136
35 Model of the Great Hall 137
36 Olympic Stadium 143
37 Reich aviation ministry 147
38 Prinz-Albrecht-Strasse and vicinity, circa 1935 155
39 "Topography of Terror" exhibition 161
40 "Topography of Terror" exhibition 161
41 Ruins in Ifflandstrasse, 1949 176
42 Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church and Europa Center 181
43 Karl-Marx-Allee, the former Stalinallee 184
44 Detail of building on former Stalinallee 184
45 Strausberger Platz and former Stalinallee 185
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