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The world-famous architect leoh Ming Pei -- the creator of numerous icons of modern architecture such as the East Wing of the National Gallery in Washington, D.C. or the glass pyramid at the Louvre in Paris -- recently completed his first building in Germany, an extension to the German Historical Museum in Berlin. It is a triumph of museum architecture in the new century. Book jacket.
Features information about the German Historical Museum in Berlin, Germany. Lists the hours of operation. Describes the permanent collections, as well as current and previous exhibitions. Discusses the different departments of the museum and offers versions of the Web site in English and German. Provides an overview of the history of the building.
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“It could have turned out differently” – from this perspective, the volume looks at fourteen caesuras in German history between 1848 and 1989. Here the real and crucial historical events are considered against the backdrop of other historical developments that were always possible – developments inherently present in decisive, often dramatic turning points. In this way new light is shed on what is already known, the essential openness of history made evident. What would have happened if the East German security services had violently turned on the demonstrators in 1989? If the USA had dropped atomic bombs on Germany in 1945? How would Germany have turned out if the effort to establis...