Berlin: Stories of the City

Berlin, a city that wears its scars, has always welcomed outsiders. But it has also been a battleground invaded by the French, taken over by the Nazis, occupied by the Russians and then divided down the middle by competing ideologies in the Cold War.

Following Germany's defeat in the Second World War, Berlin was divided at the Potsdam Conference in 1945, a division that became an emblem for the Cold War.