Stalin's Nose (An extract) | Rory MacLean | Germany, Berlin, Berlin

It's your uncle, she shouted. The line was bad. I couldn't hear. "He's finally kicked buckets." My aunt had learnt her English after the war, while the allies remained allied, from the British military attache in Budapest

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Berlin: The Reich comes home | Stuart Wolfendale | Germany, Berlin, Berlin

Berlin has a mood of dark chocolate. It is rich and bitter, a challenge to those who live on the edge of taste, who like to bite without being entirely sure they won’t be bitten back

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If Pigs Could Fly | Rory MacLean | Germany, Berlin, Berlin

In 1989 I began to write a sensible book on eastern Europe. Then a revolution tore down the Berlin Wall. Fifty years of totalitarianism -first under fascism and then communism - ended almost overnight

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Berlin: Reprise of a Grossstadt | Neville Walker | Germany, Berlin, Berlin

I’m sitting at a café table at the former Hotel Esplanade on Potsdamer Platz . . . Except this café has only two walls and they’re preserved like museum pieces behind plate glass.

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Exploring Berlin's Underground | Campbell Jefferys | Germany, Berlin, Berlin

In the Berlin underground train station, Gesundbrunnen, there is a green door which thousands of people pass everyday...

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Berlin Like a Local | Francisca Kellett | Germany, Berlin, Berlin

Berlin's strange mix of classical and modern penetrates all walks of city life. Follow these insider tips to experience the city like a local

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Hunforgiven | AA Gill | Germany, Berlin, Berlin

Time between leaving Berlin’s Tegel airport and mentioning the war: eight minutes, ten at the outside

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Another Brick in the Wall | Graham Reid | Germany, Berlin, Berlin

The realities of Cold War politics don’t mean much if you are chowing down on sauerkraut and a currywurst in a Checkpoint Charlie eatery

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The Berlin Wall | Cameron Wilson | Germany, Berlin, Berlin

These physical symbols will undoubtedly remain, yet oddly enough, the Wall’s legacy is not so much that it once divided the old Berlin, but rather that an entirely new Berlin has evolved so quickly in the wake of its fall.

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Berlin's New Identity | Gillian Ivory | Germany, Berlin, Berlin

Low key and laid back with an urban verging on functional charm, the city of Berlin still marries the days of Prussian grandeur with the architectural brutality of 1960s communism.

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