The Historian · Greta · Berlin
Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church
West Berlin chose not to fix this. Keeping the ruin as a ruin was one of the bravest decisions the postwar city made.
An 1895 church left as a bombed ruin — its broken spire deliberately preserved beside a stark 1960s modernist replacement.
— Greta, The Historian
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