This tenth line is aimed at Berlin's Olympic Stadium, which hosted the previous World Cup final in 2006.

This move was unpopular for its effect on Berlin's two previous main stations ; Berlin Zoologischer Garten ( Zoo Station ) was downgraded to a regional railway station, and the number of main line services to Berlin Ostbahnhof ( East Station ) was drastically reduced.

Berlin's history has left the city with a highly eclectic array of architecture and buildings.

* 1942 – Bing Crosby, the Ken Darby Singers and the John Scott Trotter Orchestra record Irving Berlin's " White Christmas ", the best-selling Christmas single in history.

Napoleon passing through the Brandenburg Gate after the battle of Jena-Auersted ( 1806 ) The Gate's design is based upon the Propylaea, the gateway to the Acropolis in Athens, Greece and is consistent with Berlin's history of architectural classicism ( first, Baroque, and then neo-Palladian ).

Berlin's essay " Historical Inevitability " ( 1954 ) focused on a controversy in the philosophy of history.

Due to Berlin's history of division during the Cold War, the city contains central business districts both in West Kurfürstendamm and East Berlin ( Alexanderplatz ), as well as a newly built business centre near Potsdamer Platz.

Kreuzberg has emerged from its history as one of the poorest quarters in Berlin in the late 1970s, during which it was an isolated section of West Berlin to one of Berlin's cultural centers in the middle of the now reunified city.

In 1929, Kennan began his program on history, politics, culture, and the Russian language at the University of Berlin's Oriental Institute.

* Contemporary Art Forum Kitchener ( a summary of Berlin's history and more details on the forced name change )

Newspaper articles describing Berlin's history

Spiekermann studied art history at Berlin's Free University, funding himself by running a letterpress printing press in the basement of his house.

A founding member of the German Football Association in Leipzig in 1900, the club has a long history as Berlin's best-supported side.

At OUP in 1980, inspired by Isaiah Berlin's insistence on the crucial role of individual thinkers in the history of ideas, he founded the Past Masters series ( now absorbed into the Very Short Introductions series, which it fathered ).

Later Berlin and Cölln were united into one city ; one of Berlin's modern-day boroughs is Neukölln, named after Cölln.

Berlin's analysis proved mistaken on every point, leading to Germany's increasing isolation and its dependence on the Triple Alliance, which brought together Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy.

Müller is buried at Berlin's famous Dorotheenstadt cemetery, the final resting place of some of Germany's most important artists and philosophers: including Bertolt Brecht, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Karl Friedrich Schinkel, and Heinrich Mann.

From this time onwards, Friedrichshain often featured on East Berlin's cultural map: in 1962 the Kosmos, East Germany's largest cinema was opened, followed in 1981 by the country's most ambitious swimming and sports complex, the Sport-und Erholungszentrum.

Although it was the residence of the Prussian kings, Berlin's population did not greatly expand until the 19th century, mainly after becoming the capital of the German Empire in 1871.

Amongst the former were the December 2005 launch of Tegel Airport's first-ever scheduled service to the Qatar capital Doha by Qatar Airways, operated non-stop at an initial frequency of four flights a week, and Air Berlin's November 2010 launch of non-stop, thrice-weekly Tegel – Dubai flights ( another first ).

Located in Berlin's city center Mitte on Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz ( Rosa Luxemburg Square ) in what was the GDR's capital.

When Hertha was promoted in 1997, it ended Berlin's six-year-long drought without a Bundesliga side which had made the Bundesliga the only top league in Europe without representation from its country's biggest city and capital.

By 1700, approximately 20 percent of Berlin's residents were French, and their cultural influence on the city was immense.

West Berlin officially remained an occupied city, but as a corpus separatum it politically was very closely aligned with Federal Republic of Germany despite Berlin's geographic location within East Germany.

Unter den Linden is a tree-lined east – west avenue from the Brandenburg Gate to the site of the former Berliner Stadtschloss, and was once Berlin's premier promenade.

Friedrichstraße was Berlin's legendary street during the Roaring Twenties.

He and other members from his unit wrote a play called Is This the Army ?, which was inspired by Irving Berlin's This is the Army.

" In 1942 Goebbels was involved in the deportation of Berlin's Jews.

" He couldn't escape also because he was Berlin's Defence Commissioner and he considered it would be disgraceful for him to abandon his post ," Voss added.

A physically imposing, deliberative, and reticent man, Ludwig Mies renamed himself as part of his rapid transformation from a tradesman's son to an architect working with Berlin's cultural elite, adding " van der " and his mother's surname " Rohe ", using the Dutch " van der ", rather than the German form " von " which was legally restricted to those of genuine aristocratic lineage.

The construction of a dedicated race track was proposed, following the examples of Italy's Monza and Berlin's AVUS, yet with a different character.

In later years Potsdamer Platz was served by both of Berlin's two local rail systems.

What was not apparent from the western side however, was that East Berlin's construction boasted its own illuminated display board facing east, whose messages comprised the version of the news that the Communist authorities in the east wanted their citizens to believe.

Heydrich was buried in Berlin's Invalidenfriedhof, a military cemetery ; the exact location is not known — a temporary wooden marker which disappeared when the Red Army overran the city in 1945 was never replaced, so that Heydrich's grave could not become a rallying point for Neo-Nazis.

With the division of Berlin's city government and administration in September 1948 the Neues Stadthaus was in the Communist Ostsektor ( eastern sector ) and became off limits to West Berlin.

Even before hostilities commenced in Europe, one of the most played songs on radio was Irving Berlin's " God Bless America ," popularized by CBS's own Kate Smith.

Rossellini had started now his so-called Neorealistic Trilogy, the second title of which was Paisà ( 1946 ), produced with non-professional actors, and the third, Germany, Year Zero ( 1948 ), sponsored by a French producer and filmed in Berlin's French sector.

Berlin's work was featured in the Ziegfeld Follies of 1918, 1919, and 1920.

A " Critical Reconstruction " policy agenda was to redefine Berlin's urban identity through its pre-war and pre-Nazi legacy.

With respect to redefining the city's identity, emphasis was placed on restoring Berlin's traditional landscape.

This was composer Irving Berlin's first complete film score since 1930 and he negotiated a unique contract, retaining the copyrights to the score with a guarantee of ten per-cent of the profits if the film earned in excess of $ 1, 250, 000.

Berlin's balls ) in Portugal, but the traditional Portuguese yellow cream was substituted by local dairy and fruit products.

She was made famous by her bust, now in Berlin's Neues Museum, shown to the right.

On 25 June 1948 " Operation Vittles ," the strategic airlift of supplies to Berlin's 2, 000, 000 inhabitants, was initiated, beginning what became known as the Berlin Airlift.