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The Berlin Palace: Humboldt Forum and Germany's Identity
This episode explores the contentious reconstruction of the Berlin Palace, now the Humboldt Forum, as a lens for understanding German identity, memory, and the burden of history. Lucas and Luna walk through the palace's origins as a Hohenzollern seat in the fifteenth century, its Baroque expansion under Andreas Schlüter, and its role as a symbol of Prussian power. They discuss its partial demolition after World War I, the controversy over its removal by the East German government in 1950—justified as anti-monarchist—and the construction of the Palace of the Republic, which housed the…
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