“Architecturally, no other city really represents the 20th century as well as Berlin,” says Derek Lamberton, founder of Blue Crow Media, an independent publisher of maps and apps for world citie ...

As World War II began to draw to a close in Europe, the Feb. 12, 1945, issue of TIME reported that, “Through the smoke of fires set by R.A.F. and U.S. bombers, overcrowded Berlin could see the ...