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The rise and fall of a dynasty
Noblesse oblige, even at a
highway bridge.
Berlin's history is tied up with no family so closely as with the
Hohenzollerns. Prussian electors, kings, and later German emperors, they
accompanied the provincial city's rise to imperial capital and
industrial
metropolis. Only after the death and destruction of World War I did the people
deflect, and William II had to flee to the Netherlands in 1918 ... by Mathis Sommer
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