Word: kreuzberg
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...surprisingly, house hunters turned to the city's 800 empty buildings, most of them awaiting the wrecker's ball. About 2,000 squatters have moved into 120 such structures, many of them in the city's old Kreuzberg district. At first, comparatively sympathetic police looked the other way, more or less leaving the squatters alone. But the settlement situation turned acrimonious last December when police, ordered by judges to enforce property rights of landlords, raided a squatters' building in Kreuzberg. Violent protests flared. Three consecutive weekends of street battles left 150 demonstrators and 100 police injured...
...Turkish Gastarbeiter are "simpletons," "primitives" and "Dreckschweine" (filthy pigs). Italian and Spanish foreign workers seem to rate somewhat better treatment, probably because their lifestyles more closely resemble those of northern Europeans. Isolated and lonely strangers, West Berlin's 115,000 Turks have created miserable ghettos for themselves in Kreuzberg, Wedding and Neukolhi, the poorest sections of the city...
...land Berliners call the Death Strip, some 3,000 men and women were deployed to clear the ground so that fugitives would find no cover from border sentries' machine guns. Only the dead may cross without hindrance. In a macabre ritual at the Kreuzberg crossing point each Wednesday, two identical funeral processions approach from each side of the border. After each has handed over urns containing the ashes of Berliners whose survivors live on the other side of the Wall, the two funeral trains return to their sectors...
...battle of the butter" began in Berlin last week. Days after the Communist refusal of President Eisenhower's offer of U.S. food relief, Socialist Willy Kressmann, borough mayor of the West Berlin district of Kreuzberg, dipped into his community chest, opened four mobile food stores in Oranienplatz, a market place only 200 yards from the East sector border. Loudspeakers manned by West German policemen sent Mayor Kressmann's invitation booming into Communist Berlin: "Fresh fruit and vegetables-' come...
...fall of the year shone gently upon the broken cities and the exhausted fields of Europe. On Berlin's Kreuzberg, frost stiffened upon the worm-wrought, illegible features of an exhumed, Gestapo-killed cadaver to which someone had attached a tag reading, Homo sapiens...