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The Berlin TV Tower, or Fernsehturm, rises 368 metres above Alexanderplatz and remains the tallest publicly accessible structure in Germany, visible from almost every corner of the city. Built between 1965 and 1969 by the East German state and inaugurated on 3 October 1969, it was conceived as a broadcasting facility and a showpiece of socialist engineering, championed by GDR leader Walter Ulbricht. Its design, a slender concrete shaft topped by a steel sphere, was the work of a team including a...