Tiergarten
Sprawling former royal hunting forest, replanted tree by tree after being stripped bare in the ruins of nineteen forty five.
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This guide to the Tiergarten in Berlin traces this former royal hunting forest from its near-total destruction after World War Two, when desperate Berliners felled almost every one of its two hundred thousand trees for fuel, to its years as makeshift farmland under British occupation. You'll hear how, in 1949, with the city still under blockade, mayor Ernst Reuter picked up a shovel and planted a single linden tree as an act of defiance. Listen for how many of the trees around you trace back to towns across West Germany that sent saplings in support.
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