tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6993287630738849371.post8399651559122941424..comments2023-10-26T07:32:53.934-04:00Comments on Larry Muffin at home: Berlin developmentsLaurenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03297393116796129135noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6993287630738849371.post-19379892572874767782013-06-25T10:59:04.818-04:002013-06-25T10:59:04.818-04:00I am happy to see that calmer minds prevailed and ...I am happy to see that calmer minds prevailed and poison was not used. The spirit in which these buildings are now rebuilt sends a different message about Germany and shows that people can change through traumatic events. Laurenthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03297393116796129135noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6993287630738849371.post-24412302454531079462013-06-25T10:49:43.493-04:002013-06-25T10:49:43.493-04:00Berlin is still the most fascinating palimpsest ci...Berlin is still the most fascinating palimpsest city in the world. 90 per cent of its architecture was never beautiful, but many buildings have so much symbolic significance that they need to be rebuilt - and then the significance will change.<br /><br />I was astonished to read that after the war there was a plan to abandon the ruined city altogether and build a new one 60km away. And if the allies had dropped poison on Berlin, as proposed, then we might now be visiting, with suitable precautions, a dead zone where only the buildings were half standing.Davidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14506881804082382739noreply@blogger.com