Gorlitz was the film set for ` ` The Reader , '' ` ` Grand Budapest Hotel '' and ` ` The Book . '' President Harry Truman , Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin negotiated the partition of post - war Germany at Cecilienhof . Nikolaikirche was the birthplace of the East German movement that instigated the collapse of the Berlin Wall .
Gorlitz was the film set for `` The Reader , '' `` Grand Budapest Hotel '' and `` The Book Thief '' President Harry Truman , Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet leader Joseph Stalin negotiated the partition of post-war Germany at Cecilienhof . Nikolaikirche was the birthplace of the East German movement that instigated the collapse of the Berlin Wall .