Gendarmenmarkt

This guide to Gendarmenmarkt in Berlin turns on the morning of March 22, 1848, when 183 coffins from the barricade fighting were laid out on the steps of the German Cathedral before a crowd historians put near twenty thousand. You'll hear from painter Adolph Menzel, who stood among the mourners that day, and follow the two cathedrals framing the square through very different fates across the twentieth century. Look at the Konzerthaus rising between them, and the French Cathedral built by Protestant refugees who fled persecution in France.