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A Love Letter to Berghain (Part 2/8): Getting in

How to stop worrying and love the door

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Magical Dancefloors
Mar 27, 2025
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(This is part two of an eight-part series that begins with this article.)

THE WALL AND THE DOOR

Erected overnight, the Berlin Wall divided Berlin, kettling East Germans inside a communist "workers paradise" that was so restrictive, surveilled, and difficult that about 100,000 people risked their l…

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