Berlin The cradle of Elektropolis Berlin The banks of the Spree in Berlin's Oberschöneweide district were overrun at the end of the nineteenth century by workshops that mainly focused on the electronics industry.
Berlin Spreepark: When a Fairy Tale Turns Into a Nightmare The Spreepark amusement park has been gathering dust since 2001. To avoid bankruptcy, the owner moved some attractions to Peru to start with a clean slate. In vain, as it now appears.
Berlin Looking for traces of the Berlin Wall In the center of Berlin, the Berlin Wall cut the city in half over 43 kilometers. Another 112 kilometers of wall separated West Berlin from the communist part of the city.
Germany Plattenbau in the heart of Berlin Plattenbau near Alexanderzplatz in Berlin? There must be a GDR history behind that. The prominent Haus der Statistik (House of Statistics) has been in disrepair since 2008.
Germany The most important border post of the GDR During Germany's division, the Helmstedt-Marienborn border post was the most crucial crossing along the German internal border.
Germany GDR border in the Harz Until 1989, the five-hundred-meter-wide GDR border split the German Harz Mountains in half.
Berlin The asbestos palace of the GDR Between 1974 and 1976, the GDR government built the lavishly decorated Palast der Republik, a showpiece project on Marx-Engels-Platz, which housed the East German Parliament, theater halls, several restaurants and a bowling hall.
Berlin Russian traces in Karlshorst In Karlshorst, deep in the east of Berlin, the signing of the capitulation by Germany meant the end of the Second World War.
Berlin A tank on a pedestal In the summer of 1945, only a few months after the Third Reich was removed from power, the Soviet government erected the Panzerdenkmal (German for 'Tank memorial') near the AVUS highway.
Berlin Abandoned highway in Berlin In 1940, the A115, a highway straight through the Düppeler Forst west of Berlin, was built.
Six blast furnaces you can visit today In the early nineteenth century, the industrial revolution swept across continental Europe and one steelworks after another rose from the ground. Europe had hundreds of blast furnaces, but since the mid-twentieth century, Europe's steel industry has been slowly going downhill.