Read 1. Ladd: Introduction, 1- 5; Chapter 2 Old Berlin, 41-81
- “General Introduction,” Metropolis Berlin: 1880-1940, edited by Iain Boyd Whyte and David Frisby (University of California Press, 2012), 1-5.
- Horst Matzerath, “Berlin, 1890-1940” (excerpt) in Metropolis 1890-1940, edited by Anthony Sutcliffe (The University of Chicago Press, 1984), 289-298. Use quotations or references to the assigned works. Please answer these three questions:
- Brian Ladd’s book, The Ghosts of Berlin, begins with the sentence, “Berlin is a haunted city.” In what way is Berlin “haunted”?
- Why does Ladd believe “memories cleave to the physical settings of events”?
- Why was the demolition of the GDR (East German) Palace of the Republic and the reconstruction of the former palace so controversial?
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