East Berlin - Images of East Berlin

Images of East Berlin

  • Easter Sunday 1988 Fernsehturm and Palast der Republik

  • Karl Marx Allee apartments

  • Wall plaque of Lenin, off Wilhelmstraße

  • GDR-era mural of Meissen porcelain on former Council of Ministers building, facing Leipziger Straße

  • The Soviet War Memorial in Treptower Park

  • Cafe Moskau in Karl Marx Allee

  • The Palace of the Republic, being dismantled

  • New Synagogue, Oranienburger Straße

  • "Hochhaus" in Weberwiese- the first high rise apartment that was built after the war

  • People's Theatre, Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz

  • Late-1980s GDR apartment blocks on the Wilhelmstraße

  • Strausberger Platz with constructivism style building

  • Proletarian hero, Alexanderplatz

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