Berlin

Leni Riefenstahl directing The Triumph of the Will (BPK)

Wilhelm Fürtwangler and Richard Strauss, 1936 (BPK)

SA man warning Berliners not to patronize a Jewish-owned shop during the Jewish boycott of April 1, 1933 (LBS)

Runner carrying the Olympic Torch through the Brandenburg Gate, 1936 (LBS)

The German State Library on Unter den Linden decked out for Berlin’s 700th anniversary celebration (BPK)

Model of Hitler’s planned north-south axis, including the Arch of Triumph and the domed Hall of the People (LBS)

The Reich Air Ministry Building (Göring’s headquarters), 1937 (BPK)

Burned-out interior of the Fasanenstrasse Synagogue in the wake of the Night of the Broken Glass (BPK)

The exterior of Hitler’s New Chancellery, designed by Albert Speer, 1939 (LBS)

Hitler’s study in the New Chancellery (LBS)

German troops parade through the Brandenburg Gate following the defeat of France, July 18, 1940 (AKG)

The flak tower in the Tiergarten, photographed in 1945 (LBS)

Camouflage netting on the East-West Axis (formerly Charlottenburger Chaussee, currently Strasse des 17. Juni), 1941 (AKG)

The Villa Wannsee, site of the Wannsee Conference, January 20, 1942 (LBS)

Inmates at Sachsenhausen concentration camp, 1943 (BPK)

A ruined block of houses in Neue Winterfeldstrasse, 1944 (LBS)

Members of the Volksturm in a maneuver near Potsdam, 1944 (BPK)

Marshal Zhukov in Berlin, 1945 (BPK)

Red Army soldier posing with Soviet flag on the roof of the Reichstag, May 2, 1945 (BPK)

Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel and Admiral Hans-Georg von Friedenburg at the German surrender, Karlshorst, May 9, 1945 (BPK)

An American soldier poses on a flak gun in front of the destroyed Reichstag, 1945 (BPK)

Marlene Dietrich and Jean Arthur in a scene from Billy Wilder’s A Foreign Affair, 1948 (Ullstein)

A Russian soldier relieves a Berlin woman of her bicycle (BPK

Russian street signs in the ruins of Berlin, 1945 (LBS)

Central Berlin in ruins, 1945 (BPK)

Trümmerfrauen (rubble women) at work, 1946 (LBS)

Performance by the Soviet army’s Alexandrov Ensemble at the Gendamenmarkt, 1948 (BPK)

Walter Ulbricht with a young Erich Honecker, 1951 (BPK)

Clement Attlee, Harry Truman, and Josef Stalin at the Potsdam Conference, August 1945 (BPK)

Cecilienhof, site of the Potsdam Conference, 1945 (BPK)

A Berlin woman returning to the city after a successful scavenging trip to the countryside (BPK)

Ernst Reuter (LBS)

General Lucius D. Clay (LBS)

Berlin children observe approach of an American transport plane during the airlift (BPK)

Berlin children play “airlift” (BPK)

“Hurrah, we’re still alive!” proclaims this sign on the first bus to resume the interzonal route between West Berlin and Hanover following the lifting of the Berlin Blockade, May 12, 1949 (AKG)

Monument to Rosa Luxemburg at the Landewehr Canal (Author photo)

Stone blocks with Stalin’s inscriptions at the Soviet War Memorial, Treptow (Author photo)

Stalinallee, shortly after its construction (LBS)

East Berliners pelt a Russian tank with stones during the uprising of June 17, 1953 (AKG)

Markus Wolf, photographed in 1991 (Ullstein)

The People’s Army soldier Conrad Schumann leaping to freedom, August 15, 1961 (Ullstein)

The Berlin Wall (map)

A woman climbs out of her apartment at Bernauer Strasse to freedom in West Berlin (Ullstein)

Erich Honecker with Willi Stoph, 1984 (LBS)

The Stasi headquarters in East Berlin’s Normannenstrasse, photographed in 1990 (LBS)

President John F. Kennedy, West Berlin mayor Willy Brandt, and Chancellor Konrad Adenauer during Kennedy’s visit to West Berlin, June 26, 1963 (BPK)

The Gedächtniskirche ruin with its modern addition, photographed in 1998 (LBS)

The Neue Philharmonie, designed by Hans Scharoun, 1965 (AKG)

Herbert von Karajan directs the Berlin Philharmonic (AKG)

A scene from the Schiller Theater’s musical review based on Hans Fallada’s novel Jeder Stirbt Fãr Sich Allein, 1981 (Ullstein)

“Red” Rudi Dutschke, 1968 (LBS)

The La Belle discotheque after the terrorist bombing, April 5, 1986 (LBS)

A panel from the GDR mural at the House of Ministries (Author photo)

Marzahn housing estate in East Berlin (BPK)

Wolf Biermann, 1983 (AKG)

Die Puhdys, a GDR rock band, in performance in 1986 (BPK)

President Richard von Weizsäcker and Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher protected by a police cordon during the president’s speech at Berlin’s Lustgarten, November 8, 1992 (Ullstein)

Gorbachev in East Berlin during the GDR’s fortieth anniversary celebration, October 6, 1989 (Ullstein)

“Wall-peckers” at work on the Berlin Wall, November 1989 (Hoover Institution)

Rotes Rathaus (Red City Hall), the seat of government for Greater Berlin (LBS)

Oskar Lafontaine, Willy Brandt, Hans-Dietrich Genscher, Helmut Kohl, and Richard von Weizsäcker attending the German reunification ceremony at the Reichstag, October 3, 1990 (Reuters/Michael Urban/Archive Photos)

Ernst Thälmann monument, covered in graffiti, 1994 (LBS)

Pasternak Café in Prenzlauer Berg, 1999 (Author photo)