Like archaeologists trying to picture a whole vase from a single fragment, the builders took a façade, or just a small fraction of one, and set about re-creating the whole. The restoration was so successful that looking at these 18th and 19th century buildings it's difficult to believe that as recently as the 1960s large patches of the centre lay in ruins. The result was a pleasing re-creation of the old city. Paradoxically it was the post-war communist regime that resurrected them from the wartime rubble. In June 2017, he was appointed a member of the German Academy for Football Culture. Almost every one of these symbols of Prussian might was left gutted by the bombing and shelling of WWII. The Story of German Football, was shortlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year award, while two of his German books have been nominated for that country’s Football Book of the Year prize. Traditional Baroque and Neoclassical styles predominate.

With Prussia's rise its architects were commissioned to create the trappings of a worthy Weldstadt (world city) with appropriately stately institutions built on and around Unter den Linden. An important historical district, this was key in Berlin's 18th century transformation from a relative backwater to the capital of Prussia, which became one of Europe's biggest players.

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