{"id":325,"date":"2016-04-03T00:06:44","date_gmt":"2016-04-03T07:06:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/ofbloodandbeauty\/?p=325"},"modified":"2016-04-03T00:12:10","modified_gmt":"2016-04-03T07:12:10","slug":"800-years-of-berlin-or-berlin-slavic-swamp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/ofbloodandbeauty\/800-years-of-berlin-or-berlin-slavic-swamp\/","title":{"rendered":"800 Years of Berlin."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-338 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/ofbloodandbeauty\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/144\/2016\/04\/IMG_8673-1-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_8673\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/ofbloodandbeauty\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/144\/2016\/04\/IMG_8673-1-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/ofbloodandbeauty\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/144\/2016\/04\/IMG_8673-1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/ofbloodandbeauty\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/144\/2016\/04\/IMG_8673-1.jpg 609w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>From the Brandenberger Tor to Checkpoint Charlie: Berlin, a swamp settlement on the Spree River, first mention 1237, came the Hohenzollern family for 500 years, all of the Karls and Wilhelms and Friedrichs until Karl Wilhelm abdicates in 1918, then Weimar, then Hitler, then Reichtag fire, then &#8220;state of emergency,&#8221; Kristallnacht, KZ (Konzentration) camps, Battle for Berlin, Allied victory, nation and capital in four sectors, then division, a wall, Bonn capital in the west (BRD), Berlin in the east (DDR), 1989 a press conference gone wrong (just so story), reunification.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-339\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/ofbloodandbeauty\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/144\/2016\/04\/IMG_8680-1-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_8680\" width=\"300\" 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class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-341\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/ofbloodandbeauty\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/144\/2016\/04\/IMG_8704-1-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_8704\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/ofbloodandbeauty\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/144\/2016\/04\/IMG_8704-1-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/ofbloodandbeauty\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/144\/2016\/04\/IMG_8704-1.jpg 470w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-342\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/ofbloodandbeauty\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/144\/2016\/04\/IMG_8707-1-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_8707\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/ofbloodandbeauty\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/144\/2016\/04\/IMG_8707-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/ofbloodandbeauty\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/144\/2016\/04\/IMG_8707-1.jpg 610w\" 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src=\"http:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/ofbloodandbeauty\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/144\/2016\/04\/IMG_8710-1-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_8710\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/ofbloodandbeauty\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/144\/2016\/04\/IMG_8710-1-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/ofbloodandbeauty\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/144\/2016\/04\/IMG_8710-1.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-345\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/ofbloodandbeauty\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/144\/2016\/04\/IMG_8717-1-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_8717\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/ofbloodandbeauty\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/144\/2016\/04\/IMG_8717-1-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/ofbloodandbeauty\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/144\/2016\/04\/IMG_8717-1.jpg 418w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" 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