Talking about Berlin

Berlin is back: Back as the capital of a reunified Germany and back as one of Europe’s greatest cities. After World War II, Berlin was a crippled pawn, sandwiched between East and West, with a literal and metaphoric wall deeply dividing the two halves.
The north-eastern German city even suffered the ignominy of losing its capital status, as the West German government fled to Bonn.
Today, the Cold War and the iconic events of November 1989, which saw the Berlin Wall torn to pieces by those whom it had oppressed for so long, are starting to seem like a distant memory and all the talk in Berlin is of the future.

Remains of the WALL at PostdamerPlatz