Since the 19th century Berlin has been at the centre of many key European issues from unification to Nazism to the Cold War. All of these subjects have resonated throughout Europe and the world making Berlin an ideal city to engage and inform any student of history.
Subject Focus:
- KS 3-5: Understand the importance of events in this city for German and European history.
- KS 3-5: Study a central location in the history of totalitarianism, the Holocaust and European unification.
- KS 3-5: Reflect on how Berlin's past has influenced the modern city that it is today.
Student Outcomes:
- Understand the breadth of German history first-hand.
- Reflect on how present generations understand and come to terms with the past.
- Identify Germany's place in the key themes of modern European history.
- Bring the sites students have read about to life, and humanise the victims of Nazi terror.
Question: Who said: 'Berlin is rather a part of the world than a city'?
Answer: Jean Paul
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