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Glasswerk Stralau
Berlin
Stralau glass factory

On the Stralau headland between the Spree and Rummelsburger See, in Germany's capital, Berlin, you'll find some impressive industrial heritage, established by the Jewish businessman Edmund Nathan in 1889: the ruins of the Stralau glass factory.

Berlin's Central Cattle and Slaughterhouse
Berlin
Old slaughterhouse in Berlin
The Zentralvieh- und Schlachthof on Storkower Straße is a textbook example of a repurposed VEB ruin. Pigs, cows and sheep have been slaughtered here since the sixteenth century.
Buchhändlerhof substation
Berlin
Berlin, the best-lighted city on Earth

Electric street lighting, arc lamps, neon lights,... In 1932, the German capital Berlin was the best-lighted city on earth, according to Mildred Adams, correspondent at The New York Times.

Palace of the Republic
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.
Train Workshop RAW
Berlin
Train Workshop RAW
In the Reichsbahnausbesserungswerk(RAW) train workshop in Berlin, more than 2,000 employees repaired freight and passenger wagons.
Cold storage II
Berlin
Cold storage wharehouse in Berlin

A stone's throw from the Anhalter Bahn freight station in the German capital, Berlin, construction of a new cold storage warehouse began in 1900.

Russian traces in Karlshorst
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.
Heavy load-exerting body
Berlin
A witness of the Third Reich's megalomania
In 1937, architect Albert Speer unveiled his plans for converting Berlin into Welthauptstadt Germania. In his imagination, the new Berlin was teeming with ostentatious monuments that kept pace with the megalomania of the Third Reich.
Tank memorial
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.

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