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Article: Back to the Pariser Platz.(Commentary/Editorial)

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May 20, 2008
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Another chapter of World War II will close next Tuesday when the U.S. Embassy in Berlin moves back to its pre-war site on the Pariser Platz adjacent to the Brandenburg Gate. It took long enough.

The Berlin Wall fell in 1989. The capital moved from Bonn back to Berlin in 1999. But between Congress niggling about the funds and disputes between U.S. security types and Berlin, which didn't want a grim fortress of the kind our embassies have become, brooding over one of the city's great public spaces, construction didn't start until 2004. The nearby French and British ...

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