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IN SEARCH OF BERLIN - JOHN KAMPFNER KARTONIERT ...

No other city has had so many faces and so many disasters and has reinvented itself so many
times. No other city is like Berlin. The Berlin of the past 800 years has been both haven and
hell. It is a city tortured by its history  where the traumatised gather and where traumas are
unleashed. Each plague  each fire  each war  each act of destruction and self-destruction
requires it to start again. Berlin should never have become a world metropolis. Its geography
and topography spell trouble: where are the great rivers and bridges? The mountains on the
horizon? Instead  it started out as a swamp and all around are sweeping plains  exposed to the
Siberian winds. Over the centuries  few of the great figures who have visited have had much
good to say about it. Yet now it is the destination to which the world is flocking. It has been
a trading post  military barracks  industrial powerhouse  centre of science and learning 
consumer paradise  hotbed of self-indulgence and promiscuity - and the laboratory for the worst
experiment in horror known to man. It has now achieved global status it is the geographical and
spiritual midpoint between the rival superpowers it is the city of refuge it is home to 180
nationalities  and more than a quarter of the population have a migrant background. After all
the episodes of disaster  redemption and reinvention  is Berlin finally at ease with itself?
This is the tale of a turbulent city that in spite of itself has become a magnet for the world.

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