A Cold War Point of View of Berlin’s TV Tower

Berlin’s Fernsehturm Completed in 1969
Berlin’s Fernsehturm, its TV Tower, has become an internationally recognized symbol of a vibrant, modern city. I follow a number of Berlin- and Cold War-oriented sites on Twitter, and hardly a day goes by without someone posting a picture of the tower, often accompanied by text praising its unique and iconic presence above the Berlin skyline. I took the picture of it to the left in 1983, during my second visit t...
Published on November 28, 2021 10:30