Word: kurf
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Jobs for Tag Stickers. Over Berlin's ruins the ivy still grows, but long stretches of the city's streets have been cleared. Street-corner lawns that had been stomped into shabbiness flourish again. Under the grey frown of gutted facades on the Kurfűrstendamm are rows of fancy-front, one-story shops...
...lines had been hard hit, but Frau Wilhelmine Bracht could not think when business had been better. On Berlin's fashionable Kurfürstendamm, outside "Der Ring," the marriage bureau she had run these 14 years, Berliners crowded around such arresting announcements...
From the ruins of bombed Berlin la haute couture was peeping boldly too. In draughty salons along what was once the elegant Kurfürstendamm, bright-eyed mannequins modeled the first designs after the defeat. They were almost as frothy as France's after victory. The shortage of materials was a handicap, but gold lame, for instance, could be made to do for both cocktail gowns and housecoats (see cut). For Berlin's new army of cyclists there was a snappy yellow-&-black suit with a matching belt in canary suede...
Berlin crouched, waiting the attack which had long been promised. In darkened restaurants along the Kurfürstendamm, Berliners listened to the stories and dreadful rumors from Hamburg-200,000 dead, the tunnel under the Elbe River cracked open, and 18,000 drowned; Hamburg all but obliterated. The cautious camped near the Zoo against emergency bunkers, slept in air-raid shelters. The terrified left the city for its safer fringes...
Stockholm reports had the Wilmersdorf residential district completely flattened, the Charlottenburg shopping area knocked beyond recognition, its main shopping streets-Tauenzien Strasse, Joachimstaler Strasse and half the Kurfürstendamm-wiped out. Hit again was the Zoo railway station. Destruction to Tempelhof Air Field, said Stockholm, caused suspension of all traffic. Observers who studied smoke-hazed air reconnaissance pictures, which partially confirmed the Stockholm stories, said damage was as thorough as anything they had seen in Warsaw or Rotterdam...