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www.slowtravelberlin.com @slowberlin.bsky.social · Nov 13
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www.slowtravelberlin.com @slowberlin.bsky.social · 59m
Pretty out there today 🙌 #berlin
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www.slowtravelberlin.com @slowberlin.bsky.social · 2h
“What is most difficult is to love the world as it is, with all the evil and suffering in it."

— Hannah Arendt, historian and philosopher, born 14.10.1906
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www.slowtravelberlin.com @slowberlin.bsky.social · 6h
There are spätis. There are good spätis. Then there’s Choriner Straße späti which is, well, next level 💗 #berlin #prenzlauerberg
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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 7h
Very good news from the east of Germany, where the far-right (AfD) has its strongest base - the AfD got soundly defeated in two mayoral elections, in places where they were trying to use the presence of people seeking asylum as a decisive issue. Many voters rejected that outlook. That's hopeful.
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Christian Bangel @christianbangel.bsky.social · 20h
Wieder ein schlechter Tag für die AfD im Osten.
Deklassiert in der OB-Stichwahl in Frankfurt (Oder) und sogar in Eisenhüttenstadt - wo sie sich echte Hoffnung machte - deutlich verloren.
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www.slowtravelberlin.com @slowberlin.bsky.social · 17h
Prenzlauer Berg, 1971 by Jürgen Graetz
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www.slowtravelberlin.com @slowberlin.bsky.social · 21h
East #Berlin, 1977 (postcard)
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www.slowtravelberlin.com @slowberlin.bsky.social · 22h
Xberg 🙂
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www.slowtravelberlin.com @slowberlin.bsky.social · 1d
Who says Berlin can’t be beautiful 🤩 #berlin
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www.slowtravelberlin.com @slowberlin.bsky.social · 1d
Berlin-Tiergarten, 1945 - civilians growing vegetables next to the ruins of the Reichstag.

Photographer unknown.
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www.slowtravelberlin.com @slowberlin.bsky.social · 1d
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www.slowtravelberlin.com @slowberlin.bsky.social · 1d
Golden rays in an autumnal Volkspark Friedrichshain—happy Sunday everyone 🍂 #berlin
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www.slowtravelberlin.com @slowberlin.bsky.social · 1d
😂 ❤️ 👏
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www.slowtravelberlin.com @slowberlin.bsky.social · 1d
Schönhauser Allee, Prenzlauer Berg #berlin #walkingberlin
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www.slowtravelberlin.com @slowberlin.bsky.social · 2d
Autumnal view over the Grunewald to the Olympic Stadium #berlin
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www.slowtravelberlin.com @slowberlin.bsky.social · 2d
Ireland > Berlin
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www.slowtravelberlin.com @slowberlin.bsky.social · 2d
So many pleasant Ecken
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www.slowtravelberlin.com @slowberlin.bsky.social · 2d
“In Schöneberg, theatres, cabarets, and clubs catered to homosexuals, lesbians, transsexuals, and Berlin’s liberated sub-culture. The Nazis attempted to eliminate all traces of that sub-culture, but today the district is once again a centre of gay life.”

www.slowtravelberlin.com/nollendorfpl...
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www.slowtravelberlin.com @slowberlin.bsky.social · 2d
If it were you returning then you would presumably be seeing it through the same lens (cognitive apparatus / memories) as before. That’s interesting too since our memories change and deteriorate in the same way as history - so many details would have been lost over time. But not the main narrative.
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www.slowtravelberlin.com @slowberlin.bsky.social · 2d
It’s history. Forget it at your peril.
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www.slowtravelberlin.com @slowberlin.bsky.social · 2d
Some fabulous snapshots from 1920s Berlin - by Walter Ruttmann (with added colour and sound design).

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A Day in Berlin 1920s in color [60fps, Remastered] w/sound design added
YouTube video by NASS
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www.slowtravelberlin.com @slowberlin.bsky.social · 2d
"Italian photographers Stefano Corso and Dario-Jacopo Laganá visited more than 200 former military locations with one goal: to document the physical traces of the Red Army in Germany."

@marcelkrueger on a project called: We Will Forget Soon...

www.slowtravelberlin.com/we-will-forg...
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www.slowtravelberlin.com @slowberlin.bsky.social · 2d
BIS SPÄTI #berlin
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www.slowtravelberlin.com @slowberlin.bsky.social · 3d
Postcard of the modernist Kosmos Kino in East Berlin, one of the largest cinemas in the GDR. Inaugurated on October 5, 1962 and located on Karl-Marx-Allee, it was used as a premiere cinema until 1989. The building still hosts events and conferences today. #berlin
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www.slowtravelberlin.com @slowberlin.bsky.social · 3d
Actually only that short section is cobbled. The rest is pure asphalt and a joy to cycle on
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www.slowtravelberlin.com @slowberlin.bsky.social · 3d
Autumn on Bergmannstraße 🙌 #berlin
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