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Rebuilding the Past; Monuments destroyed by war are rising again.(Cover story)
Byline: Stefan Theil
A 14-hectare site, just off Unter den Linden, Berlin's old imperial boulevard, has long been the city's most fought-over chunk of real estate. There, after 15 years of heated debate, demolition began last month on the Palace of the Republic, the empty 1970s-era home of communist East Germany's rubber-stamp "Parliament." Once upon a time, the plot was occupied by an even vaster edifice: the 1,200-room Stadtschloss, the 12th-century palace of Prussian kings and German kaisers, damaged in World War II and razed by the communists in 1950. Now, the Bundestag has decreed, a replica of the old imperial palace will be rebuilt on the same spot, with a historically accurate facade and a mostly modern interior.
Berlin is not alone in catching reconstruction fever. Projects to rebuild prominent landmarks lost to Allied bombs and postwar wrecking balls are underway in Frankfurt, Potsdam and a host of other German cities. Destroyed monuments, of course, have been reconstructed as long as there have been fires, earthquakes and war: in Moscow, one of the latest additions to the skyline is the Cathedral of Christ the Savior, a copy of a 19th-century original blown up during one of Joseph Stalin's anti-church purges. But in Germany, rebuilding seems to have turned into a national trend.
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