Once among Berlin's most elegant squares, a place of palaces, the French and US embassies, the Academy of Arts, and the city's premier bhotel/b, the Adlon, it was now bare except for the gate and the Wall. b..../b Ulrike bKrenzlin/b, ?Eisemes Kreuz und Preussen-Adler: Ja oder Nein?? in Hauptstadt Berlin-wohin mit der Mitte? ed. Helmut Engel and Wolfgang Ribbe (Berlin: Akademie, 1993), 104-7. SOURCE: The Ghosts of Berlin: Confronting German History in the Urban Landscape.
