Music and Culture of WW1 - The Essay - Music on the Brink: Berlin

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Stephen Evans, the BBC's Berlin Correspondent, reminds us that the German capital on the eve of war was the world's most innovative technological centre. Einstein was here, the director of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Physics from 1914. Mark Twain called Berlin the "German Chicago" because of its dizzying sense of modernity and progress.

Published on Wednesday, 8th January 2014.

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