Life in Berlin means living with history, especially the legacy of the city's Nazi past. The years 1933 to 1945, when Berlin was the capital of Adolf Hitler's Third Reich—Berliners call it the "brown past"— continue to define the city....
"And here, ladies and gentlemen," said the tour guide, "just here along next to the Reichstag, you must imagine the Wall." A silence in the bus as everybody tried. Eight of the nine travelers in this American group had memories to draw on, but...
THE ECONOMIC upsurge and the burst of new construction in reunified Berlin are swiftly obscuring the scars of the former Wall and No Man's Land, but in cities the past never really goes away. That's one reason for the fight now going on in...
