A new centre for a city still divided

Berlin has not quite finished growing together, though it’s well on the way to being rebuilt, with the near-completion of the Potsdamer Platz project.

Before its total destruction at the end of World War II, the Potsdamer Platz was an almost mythical place in the minds of many Germans. It was the centre of the booming, jazzy Berlin of the roaring twenties, the sort of place where pickpocket met millionaire.