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...visitor to Berlin inevitably walks along the road to the Brandenburg gate, now lined with rolls of barbed wire and heavily guarded. The old Brandenburg gate stands in its grandeur as a reminder of the transience of power over this great city. The shock and revulsion of seeing its impaired beauty, half hidden by the wall, is tempered by the remembrance of the history it has witnessed. The chariot now astride the gate is the same one which was once borne triumphantly into Paris by Napoleon...
...cross-over point into the Eastern Sector of the city is several blocks from the Brandenburg gate. If one follows the wall (after it leaves the Brandenburg gate it becomes about nine feet high, and it is topped by Y-shaped metal bars covered with barbed wire) Check Point Charlie...
Beyond Akademieplatz the wreckage continues. The restored Opera House looks naked against ruins, the access to the Brandenburg gate is framed with more ruins, and in many places restored apartment houses are only islands in the rubble. Even on Karl Marx A ee, the town's main street, one has the feeling that the new, tawdry apartment houses are merely a Potemkin Village. They are surrounded everywhere by ruins...
...Kaiser-Wilhelm (now Max Planck) Institute, he was saved from a Nazi death sentence when the German army argued that he could be more useful with his head on than off. As a result, he did chemical research for the Wehrmacht during World War II while locked up in Brandenburg Prison. After the war Communist Havemann became one of East Germany's star scholars, won the Patriotic Order of Merit from Communist Boss Walter Ulbricht...
...BRANDENBURG GATE: REVISITED (Columbia) is a noble effort on the part of the Dave Brubeck Quartet to co-exist with an orchestra in tunes from the quartet's standard repertory-In Your Own Sweet Way, Summer Song, and the opus magnus, Brandenburg Gate. An E for effort and a gentleman's C for middling success...