POTSDAMER PLATZ, Introduction

Hi, my name’s Scott, and I’m your personal guide. Along with MyWoWo, I’d like to welcome you to one of the Wonders of the World: Potsdamer Platz.

Potsdamer Platz is the most modern of all the squares in Berlin.

This lively area, with its skyscrapers and shopping malls, features some particularly striking architecture, with buildings that seem to have been constructed with each other’s functions in mind. This sensation is not merely a coincidence.

During the Second World War, the whole area around the square was heavily bombed and laid to waste. At the end of the war, the square was divided by the border between East and West Germany, and in 1961, by the actual Berlin Wall. In 1953, it was the site of a demonstration by workers from the East, which was crushed without mercy by Soviet troops and the police, resulting in hundreds of victims....