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Alexanderplatz, a vast public square in the centre of the former East Berlin, is one of the busiest and most recognisable open spaces in the German capital, named after the Russian Tsar Alexander the First, who visited the city in 1805. Long a focus of trade and transport, the square developed over the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries into a bustling commercial hub, immortalised in literature as a symbol of the teeming modern metropolis, before suffering heavy damage in the Second World ...