KaDeWe - Kaufhaus des Westens

This guide to KaDeWe in Berlin opens with a British bomber crashing into the building on a January night in 1944, killing its crew and gutting the store built by Jewish merchant Adolf Jandorf in 1907. It follows what happened after Jandorf sold the business in the 1920s, and how the Tietze family who bought it next were stripped of it under Nazi race laws and forced to sell for a fraction of its worth, even losing the store's name. Listen for how the ruins were used in the last days of fighting for the city, before the long rebuild began.