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Before ‘Resilience’
Surviving in Postwar Berlin, 1945-1950
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Living in the Rubble. Housing Shortages in Postwar Berlin
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Figure 1: Herbert Hensky “Two boys shing on the Spree in Berlin-Mitte,” 1947. (Bildarchiv
Preußischer Kulturbesitz). Figure 2: Willy Römer, “Rubble removal: rubble women on Alte-
Jakob Straße,” 1948 (Bildarchiv Preußischer Kulturbesitz).
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Figure 3: Unknown, “A destroyed apartment in a badly damaged building serves as a bal-
cony in the summer,” 1946 (Bildarchiv Preußischer Kulturbesitz)
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on average,
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Rebuilding Berlin? The Postwar Housing Crisis
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Temporary Housing and Durable Camps
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Surviving Scarcity. The Hunger Years, 1945-1950
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Surviving the Peace. Formal and Informal Strategies.
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Figure 4: Friedrich Seidenstücker, “e ‘Potato-Express’ at the Potsdam train station,” 1946
(Bildarchiv Preußischer Kulturbesitz).
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Figure 5: Willy Römer, “Potato harvest in the Tiergarten,” 1945 (Bildarchiv Preußischer
Kulturbesitz).
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Conclusion: Never Cry Crisis?
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References
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