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The Cold War City

But what was Berlin really like during the Cold War...?

"... tarted up as Macy's Christmas window, a virtual display case of the virtues of capitalism dead centre in the Eastern Bloc"
—(Karen Jaehne, "Angel Eyes: Wenders Soars," in Film Comment, 24.3, pp 19-20.)

"...after the success of the Allied Airlift in 1948-49... a 'Showcase of Capitalism' meant to prove the superiority of the West and to dazzle those in the Soviet zone"
—(Alexandra Ritchie, Faust's Metropolis; A History of Berlin, 1999, photo caption between pp 852 and 853.)