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Title: An introduction to temporary-use : strategic planning in the interim
Creator: Earls, Matthew
Date: 2011
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations
Description: Berlin with its numerous vacant buildings and properties has become an urban laboratory. It is a world with limited planning. With the market economy withdrawn from the numerous wastelands which dot the city, seemingly functionless spaces have become the staging ground for a number of unexpected activities. Freed from the restrictions of traditional social rules and organizations, these spaces have developed a tremendous range of uses. These are places of inventions and of start-up companies....
Show moreBerlin with its numerous vacant buildings and properties has become an urban laboratory. It is a world with limited planning. With the market economy withdrawn from the numerous wastelands which dot the city, seemingly functionless spaces have become the staging ground for a number of unexpected activities. Freed from the restrictions of traditional social rules and organizations, these spaces have developed a tremendous range of uses. These are places of inventions and of start-up companies. While temporary-use is not a cure-all to the problem of urban decay, it may nonetheless prove extremely beneficial to cities in filling "holes" in the urban fabric and cultivating innovation
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Title: Berlin City Hall speech
Creator: Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963
Date: 1964
Collection: G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
Description: Address at the Berlin City Hall, "Ich bin ein Berliner." Speech recorded June 26, 1963.

Title: Checkpoint Charlie in Berlin is officially removed after 45 years
Date: 1990
Collection: G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
Description: Checkpoint Charlie in Berlin is officially removed after 45 years. With the opening of all barriers between East and West Berlin, the symbol of occupation and of the separation of the two Berlins is formally and ceremoniously removed. James Baker and Douglas Hurd, British Foreign Minister, speak.

Title: In sight but out of mind : the construction of memory at three once stigmatized sites in Berlin and Poznań
Creator: Naumann, Stephen Paul
Date: 2012
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations
Description: This study explores cultural identity reflected in the urban landscape at three structures formerly identified with National Socialism: Berlin's Olympiastadion (Olympic Stadium) and Siegessäule (Victory Column), and Poznan's Zamek cesarski (formerly Kaiserschloss - or Imperial Castle). My analysis is based on local and state archival work, as well as the examination of literary, visual and media sources in both Germany and...
Show moreThis study explores cultural identity reflected in the urban landscape at three structures formerly identified with National Socialism: Berlin's Olympiastadion (Olympic Stadium) and Siegessäule (Victory Column), and Poznan's Zamek cesarski (formerly Kaiserschloss - or Imperial Castle). My analysis is based on local and state archival work, as well as the examination of literary, visual and media sources in both Germany and Poland. I conclude that after the structures were first used to project meaning from Cold War tropes, both tourism and the enhancement of local identity in the face of European and global influences eventually contributed to the shift in meaning at these spaces in both cities. Poznan's Zamek cesarski, a palace first commissioned by German Kaiser Wilhelm II, became, with its dedication in 1910, a monument to Prussian-German imperialism in this multi-ethnic Polish-German-Jewish city. Rededicated by the new Polish republic after World War I, the structure was later remodeled by the Nazis for Hitler's use. One of their most prominent additions is still visible today: the Führerbalkon, a balcony extending off the front of the building for Hitler to watch military parades. After 1945, the partially damaged neo-Romanesque building was repaired and maintained by the Polish postwar administration, and today serves citizens as the multifaceted Centrum Kultury "Zamek" (Center of Culture "Zamek"). The physical space surrounding the building has been drastically changed, as a number of Polish monuments and memorials have been erected around the palace's perimeter. Similarly, Olympiastadion and the Siegessäule, despite their design and function as sites of German history and national memory, are increasingly associated today with the city of Berlin. Both have hosted a number of cultural events: the stadium has maintained its function to this day, while the monument was first neglected and decades later became associated with a number of popular events in the reunified capital. After first demonstrating Hitler's personal interest in the design and the Nazis' use of each structure, I center my work on each site in its post-1945 landscape. I analyze the debates on whether or not to purge the structures from the urban landscape and examine questions of appearance, utilization and repurposing during the decades of the Cold War. Finally, I describe the emphasis on historical and new events, the erection of monuments and the structures' depiction in cultural texts that have also had an impact on the public perception of the three spaces in today's Berlin and Poznan. Examining sites with a similar past in both cities also allows a comparative look at memory trends in Germany and Poland - two nations where decisions regarding memorialization and urban development have been carefully scrutinized in the public sphere. In addition to contributing to the growing field of work on the use of public space to establish cultural memory, this project demonstrates processes by which even the most meaningful cultural associations can be rewritten.
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Title: Interview of Patricia W. Pasbach on her experience in the U.S. Army Nurse Corps in post-WWII Germany
Creator: Pasbach, Patricia W., 1923-
Date: 1983-04-26
Collection: Women's Overseas Service League Oral History Project
Description: Patricia W. Pasbach discusses her experiences in the U.S. Army Nurse Corps while attached to the 124th General Hospital in Salzburg, the 279th General Hospital in Berlin, and the 120th Station Hospital in Bayreuth in 1946. Pasbach speaks at length about her experiences in a divided Berlin, detailing the economic problems caused by postwar inflation in Germany and discussing the Russian occupation of East Berlin and the territory around Berlin. She also describes spending weekends in...
Show morePatricia W. Pasbach discusses her experiences in the U.S. Army Nurse Corps while attached to the 124th General Hospital in Salzburg, the 279th General Hospital in Berlin, and the 120th Station Hospital in Bayreuth in 1946. Pasbach speaks at length about her experiences in a divided Berlin, detailing the economic problems caused by postwar inflation in Germany and discussing the Russian occupation of East Berlin and the territory around Berlin. She also describes spending weekends in Berchtesgaden while stationed in Salzburg, and her anxiety about being stationed in a foreign city where she did not know anyone. Pasbach says she was offered the chance to sign on for another year, but did not want to stay in Europe that long and left the Army in November 1946 after a little over a year of service. Pasbach is interviewed by Elsie Hornbacher.
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Title: Report to the nation on the Berlin crisis
Creator: Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963
Date: 1964
Collection: G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
Description: U.S. President John F. Kennedy's reports to the American people on the Crisis in Berlin. Summer 1961. Recording preceded by an introduction from U.S. Secretary of State Dean Rusk.

Title: Solving the Stadtschloss dilemma : what an old façade will say about new Berlin
Creator: Naumann, Stephen (Stephen Paul)
Date: 2006
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Title: Suppressing Communist uprisings in Berlin
Creator: Noske, Gustav, 1868-1946
Date: 1919-03-13
Collection: G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection

Title: U.S. President John F. Kennedy's speech on the Berlin crisis
Creator: Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963
Date: 1961-07-25
Collection: G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
Description: High quality recording of President John F. Kennedy's speech on the Berlin crisis. Kennedy warns the USSR against moves in Berlin that might appear hostile or restrict access to the East Berlin sector. Kennedy calls for increased US military spending in order to counter the Communist threat and cautions the American public about the possible consequences.

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