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The Berlin Palace: Prussia's Lost Heart and Its Rebuilding
In this episode, Lucas and Luna explore the rise, fall, and controversial reconstruction of the Berlin Palace—a building that stood at the center of Prussian and German history for over five centuries. Originally commissioned by Elector Frederick I in 1443, the palace grew into a massive Baroque residence under King Frederick I in the early 1700s, designed by Andreas Schlüter and Johann Friedrich Eosander. It witnessed the 1848 revolution, the proclamation of the German Empire in 1871, and the abdication of Kaiser Wilhelm II in 1918. Damaged in World War II, the palace was dynamited by the…
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