During the Wilhelmine era , in 1902 , the first Berlin U-Bahn line ( '' Stammstrecke '' ) was inaugurated , which ran under the Tauentzienstraße pavement ( the present-day U2 ) . Furthermore , a tramway line ran on the central strip . The street became a popular neighbourhood for middle-class families : notable residents included the author Hermann Sudermann , the later Nobel laureate Gustav Stresemann , the painter Emil Nolde , and young Marlene Dietrich . The '' Romanisches Café '' , opened in 1916 at the western corner , quickly became a venue of artists and intellectuals of Berlin 's Roaring Twenties . Many Jewish residents were deported and murdered during The Holocaust . The delopement was badly damaged by the Bombing of Berlin in World War II . During the Cold War era , the street became part of the commercial center of West Berlin , along with the nearby Kurfürstendamm . Tauentzienstraße is actually the busier of the two streets due to the concentration of shops along its length
The Holocaust
The Holocaust
Tauentzienstraße