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A photograph of the young Vladimir Nabokov taken at KaDeWe, Berlin's department store, during his 6th year of exile, as the writer's handwritten caption indicates.

major sites of the Russian emigre community in the 1920s Berlin (embassies, relief agencies, banks, restaurants, as well as publishing houses, bookstores, and libraries)

In the early 1920s, Berlin was home to almost 360 000 Russian emigres. This map shows where some of the most prominent members of the Russian Berlin community lived during their stay in the city, as well as the sites of Russian Berlin and Berlin…

On 23 September 1933 the construction of the Reichsautobahn started south of Frankfurt. Hitler himself took a shovel to make the first dig. The planned pace was to construct around 800 miles of highways every year, for the overall projected length…

Pipes—"not yet lowered into the ground"—on Potsdamer Platz, 1935

Vintage Postcard: The Elephant Gate at Number 9 Budapester Strasse