Title: How Did Germany Rebuild After World War II? - The Aleppo Project
Headings: How Did Germany Rebuild After World War II?
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How Did Germany Rebuild After World War II?
What was the impact on planning on reconstruction in Germany?
When did thinking about reconstruction start in Germany?
What were the implications of local management?
How did German’s clear the rubble from their cities so effectively?
How was Berlin rebuilt after the war?
How did Germany deal with buildings with histories of terror and violence?

Content: The lack of skilled workers really shaped the reconstruction process. The Bauhaus (the modernist design school in Dessau, closed under the Nazis) was also very influential in calling for the use of new materials. The issue of labour shortages is a potential problem in Aleppo—will they be able to find enough skilled workers to repair buildings or will they have to say that something has been too damaged and will have to be forgotten about? How was Berlin rebuilt after the war? Berlin is physically a very large city and there were people who after the war just said let’s continue to modernise. But that is not always the case. In West Berlin they restored the bombed city hall and other symbolic buildings and they also tried to maintain some neighbourhoods like Charlottenberg. In East Berlin there were fewer opportunities to do that. There was much more of a tendency to modernise there. In recent years there has been a controversy about the old Berlin City Palace (the winter residence of the Prussian kings), which the East Germans demolished.