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Berlin is fond of remembering itself in the 1920s when it became the cultural center of Europe. The film reels show the Potsdamer Platz of that era bustling with activity, commerce and culture. Can there be a return to that time after what the twentieth century has wrought upon the body and soul of the city? Potsdamer Platz was destroyed during and after the war and became the no man’s land between the walls. It presents the unique opportunity to start completely fresh and to revolutionize the conception of its urban center. To revive the spirit...
...prewar neighborhood just a few hundred yards from where Wladyslaw Szpilman, the hero of The Pianist, hid out after the 1944 uprising (the area is now a busy shopping district). The Rialto is lavishly outfitted, with black-and-white Art Deco furnishings from Warsaw's heyday in the 1920s. Its elevator is modeled on an Orient Express compartment, with red leather seating. There are only 45 rooms, and no two have the same design. --By Andrew Purvis and Tadeusz Kucharsk/Warsaw
...city with rich history like Philadelphia’s, the remnants of Tacony’s past hardly seem worth preserving. People laughed at the Historical Society of Tacony when it first opened in 1990. Its collection, which consists of matchbooks from the 1920s, saw blades from the 1890s, and photographs of the factories productively belching smoke, does not draw giant crowds to the one-room museum. But the treatment of history in this industrial neighborhood is more passionate than anything in Philadelphia’s Old City...
...same time, Orwell might have doubted the wisdom of some current policies - the willingness to speckle the Islamic world with American garrisons or award contracts for the reconstruction of wrecked nations to favored companies. His loathing of imperialism was visceral, because he knew, firsthand, what it meant. In the 1920s Orwell had served in the imperial police in Burma, then a British colony, and the experience left him with an almost physical hatred for the behavior - in fact, the very language and look - of the imperialist class. Last week I reread Burmese Days, Orwell's 1934 novel based...
...other chapters of Soviet terror - man-made famine in Ukraine, collectivization, the executions during the purge years and civil war. A low estimate for the total death toll is around 10 million. Applebaum, an American journalist, describes the history of the camps, from their origins in the early 1920s, when the majestic Solovetsky Monastery was turned into a political prison, through what Solzhenitsyn called its metastasis into the Gulag system - the word is an acronym for Glavnoye Upravlenie Lagerey, or Main Directorate of Camps. She then lays out in sober detail the daily life, work and death of the prisoners...