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History's greatest cities | Berlin

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Berlin and the Thirty Years War

The Thirty Years War killed about half of the settlement's populations. By 1638, Berlin was reduced to only 845 houses. And then it was saved by an austere and ambitious despot. He harnessed its survivors' fear to transform this devastated outpost.

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