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1 Unemployed dock workers in January 1931

2 Members of the Nazi League of German Girls (BDM) walk proudly down the street of a German town

3 Hitler’s triumphal arrival to popular acclaim in his former home town of Linz during the 1938 Anschluss of Austria (which subsequently represented itself as ‘Hitler’s first victim’)

4 German soldiers execute ‘partisans’, Lithuania, 1944

5 Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto, who, if they survived the misery, hunger and sickness of ghetto life, would ultimately be transported and murdered in an extermination camp

6 The Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, in a landscape of rubble at the end of the Second World War

7 West German chancellor Konrad Adenauer looks uncomfortable on a visit to Berlin’s Brandenburg Gate, in August 1961, a week after the Berlin Wall was erected

8 Schoolchildren on their weekly ‘day in industry’ in the ‘people’s own factory’, with which their school is twinned, admire the progress board in the ‘competition for fulfilment of the plan’

9 Erich Honecker handing over the one millionth new apartment built in the GDR, surrounded by workers in hard hats, and children from a local creche

10 Couple watching television, Er magazine cover, 1952

11 East Berliners hack out mementoes from the now defunct Berlin Wall, in spring 1990

12 Demonstration against rising rents and gentrification, Kreuzberg, Berlin, June 2013

13 ‘Stolpersteine’ – pavement ‘cobblestones to stumble over’, commemorating former Jewish inhabitants who were deported and murdered by the Nazis

14 The Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, in the heart of Berlin, spreading over several acres between the Brandenburg Gate and the site of Hitler’s bunker and providing an inescapable and controversial reminder of the Jewish victims of Nazism

15 CDU poster ‘Wir haben mehr zu bieten’ (‘We have more to offer’) showing CDU candidates Vera Lengsfeld (formerly Vera Wollenberger) and Angela Merkel