#Berlin history

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David Bowie in the Lützower Lampe, a Berlin Drag Bar, in 1977.

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In einem Land, das es nicht mehr gibt

Ostberlin - Prenzlauer Berg Schönhauser Allee - CAFE NORD

[ginsouscompany]

autumn vibes, cultural immersion and literary inspiration in Berlin with Donna Tart

[tammuz]

Assyrian alabaster relief of an Eagle-Headed Winged Figure from the ancient city of Nimrud, dating back to the 9th century BCE. The Pergamon Museum, Berlin, GERMANY.

Photo by Babylon Chronicle

[undr]

Sibylle Bergemann. Annette and Angela, Lustgarten, Berlin 1982

[jetleparti]

Prometheus: Unbound 505 / Oil, acrylic, ink, graphite, & wax pencil on canvas. via Jet Le Parti archive.

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apartment squatted by a group of punks in East Berlin. 1982 by Ilse Ruppert

[fuckyeahplattenbau]

Karl-Marx-Allee, Berlin, by Andrey Pozdnyakov

[lookiamnotshameless]

A man who looks surprisingly plain without his glasses, as described by Himaruya Hidekaz, aka a liar who LIES.

I intentionally didn't use anything from APH, because you can argue that his concept had changed since then or something. But you know what, Hima still lies.

(Roderich's feelings about his own face are a wholly separate thing.)

[humanoidhistory]

Pay phone in East Berlin, 1983.

(Deutsche Fotothek)

[fashionsfromhistory]

Men’s Slippers

1880s

Fashion Museum Bath via Twitter

[koenji]

via via_maris (on ig):

In 1945 in Berlin, legendary LIFE Magazine photographer Robert Capa documented the first Rosh Hashanah service held in the city since 1938 at Fraenkelufer, a synagogue that the U.S. Army had helped restore after the Nazis torched it. The text reads:

'This year, for the first time since 1938 when the Nazis destroyed Jewish synagogues, Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, was celebrated in a Berlin synagogue. Among the 500 worshipers who gathered for the services at sundown on Sept 7. were American and Russian soldiers who prayed together with the relatively few remaining Jews of Berlin. The synagogue, once burned by Nazis, had been repaired, re-painted and refitted with the aid of the U.S. Army.

The honor of holding the Torah or Sacred Scroll (above) during the ceremony was bestowed upon Pfc Werner Nathan, of Newark, N.J. The scroll had been hidden from the Nazis in an underground safe. Their freedom to worship restored once again, the German Jews prayed for a new world. "We are still in the dark," intoned the rabbi. "We are between two doors. We have opened and passed through only one. I ask God where we shall go from here."'

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Der Ostberliner Festumzug zur 750-Jahr-Feier im Jahre 1987

[lionofchaeronea]

Sleeping Jaguar, Paul Klimsch (1868-1917)

[tammuz]

The temple of the Sumerian goddess Inanna, also known as the Lady of Heaven, from the Sumerian city of Uruk in Mesopotamia. The temple dates back to the late 15th century BCE. The Pergamon Museum, Berlin, GERMANY.

Photo by Babylon Chronicle

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John Gutmann. Goodbye Berlín, 1933