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Berlin

History's Greatest Cities

CHAPTER

The Berlin Wall and the Warsaw Pact

During the Second World War, millions of books and paintings were taken from Berlin. The city was left a wasteland again when it fell into Soviet hands in 1945. In 1968, tens of thousands of young people rebelled against its authorities. They wanted to reject the Nazi legacy and they thought Western capitalism was a reincarnation of Third Reich.

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