WESTENBERG

WESTENBERG

A soft-landing manual for the second gilded age

What got us here won't get us there

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JA Westenberg
Mar 03, 2026
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The Gilded Age | American Experience | Official Site | PBS

By the summer of 1945, West Berlin had been reduced to rubble. Allied bombing, the Soviet ground assault and Hitler’s insistence on Götterdämmerung had destroyed roughly a third of the city’s buildin…

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