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This is a movie still from Berlin: Symphony of a Great City

The paper concludes with noting that despite the mixed reception of the plan, it is now seen as "providing a framework into which an unmistakable ‘Berlin of Stone’ was set upon the sands of Brandenburg" (Bernet 419)

An example of a fleeting story you have to complete yourself

Silver in Berlin - Symphony of a Metropolis, an example of a fleeting story you have to complete yourself

Scene of mannequins from Ruttman film showing Capitalism.

Scene of mannequins from Ruttman film showing Capitalism.

A 1710 map of Berlin, showing Friedrichstadt in the lower left-hand corner. Note the rectangular layout of the city streets which is exactly the same as today.

Mannequins in Symphony of a Metropolis - an example of many fleeting stories

The article recounts "her life, like her work, was an epic of struggle and courage;" "Kathe Kollwitz was beloved and honored by the common people as much as she was hated and feared and suppressed by the old imperial regime in Germany" (pg. 87)