Une histoire de Berlin | Philippe Meyer

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A history of Berlin

Philippe Meyer

Release date : 11/09/2014

A new history of Berlin that allows the reader to understand the city through the great events that established it as the eternal capital of Germany

This is a history of Berlin as an extraordinary human adventure, the knowledge of which casts light upon that of contemporary Europe. The history of the city is also that of a great people who acquired an immense and remarkable culture which influenced the past of nearly all of Germany. ... This is a history of Berlin as an extraordinary human adventure, the knowledge of which casts light upon that of contemporary Europe. The history of the city is also that of a great people who acquired an immense and remarkable culture which influenced the past of nearly all of Germany. Berlin was successively a Slavic backwater, then a German town built upon arid land, one that owed its survival to trade and to the indomitable will of the noble family to whom the German emperors granted the city itself and the surrounding area of the province of Brandenburg. This family, the Hohenzollerns, fought their way up the aristocratic ladder, successively as margraves, Prince-Electors, Grand Electors, kings of Prussia, and, ultimately, emperors of Germany. At the same time, the town of Berlin became their capital and that of the vast regions they gradually accumulated, extending from the Baltic territories of Memel all the way to the former Roman domains of the Rhineland, and from the North Sea and the Baltic all the way to the source of the Danube.
In 1918, the Second Reich crumbled with the abdication of Wilhelm II. Thus began the tragic saga of Berlin, marked by the Nazi regime, the subsequent destruction of the city in 1945, and its separation into Eastern Soviet and Western democratic sectors, embodied in the notorious Berlin Wall. The fall of the wall led to the reunification of Germany and restored Berlin’s international aura.

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