The capital of Germany is a city of cultural superlatives: three opera houses,
two concert halls and eight symphony orchestras await you - more than in
any other city in the world. Over 150 theaters and stages offer boulevard
theater, classic opera, world literature classics and off-scene.
Berlin was the capital of Prussia until 1945 and the capital of Germany
between 1871 and 1945 and again since the reunification of Germany on October
3, 1990. (The German parliament, called Bundestag, and the German government
are supposed to move from Bonn to Berlin till the year 2000.) Between 1949
and 1990, it was divided into East Berlin, the capital of the German Democratic
Republic, and West Berlin. It was divided by the Berlin Wall between August
13, 1961, and November 9, 1989.
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