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In 1900 Berlin's arterial roads ran across Potsdam Square - Potsdamer Platz (S1, S2, S25, S26, U2, Bus 200). Here in 1924 traffic was regulated by Germany's first traffic lights. Emperor Wilhelm spent his gentlemen's evenings in the Hotel Esplanade. Next to the Hotel the infamous National Socialist 'People's Court' administered injustice.
With the exception of the former wine merchants' Haus Huth and the Emperor's Hall in the Hotel Esplanade there is hardly anything left of 1920's Potsdamer Platz buildings.
The National Socialists planned a new capital, so they cleared the area between Potsdamer Platz and Tiergarten. Under the site, they built the "Fuehrerbunker".
Potsdamer Platz was demolished by bombs, after the war the broad strip of the Berlin Wall ran across the square.
Investors and famous architects queued up for the wasteland left by the wall in Berlin's sought-after central area near Tiergarten, Brandenburger Tor and Reichstag.The most spectacular architectural sight on Potsdamer Platz is the Sony Center designed by Helmut Jahn, much photographed with its open roof sail construction connecting the towers.
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