Berlin

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1. Story
2. The capital of Germany, sited on the Spree in the Warsaw-Berlin glacial spillway — a broad, flat sandy valley floor left by meltwater at the end of the last glaciation. That geology is the reason the city is almost level, which is in turn the reason its marathon is the fastest in history. Berlin was divided by the Wall from 1961 to 1989, and the marathon course carries that history directly: it was confined to West Berlin until 1990, when it crossed the line of the former border and passed through the Brandenburg Gate three days before reunification. It is a canonical city object and is not defined by the marathon.
3. Knowledge
4. Berlin
5. Connections
6. The Berlin Wall
7. Tempelhof Airport
8. The Berlin blockade and airlift
9. The Berlin sector border is sealed
10. American and Soviet tanks face each other on Friedrichstrasse
11. The Berlin Wall opens
12. Berlin Marathon
13. The first Berlin Marathon, in the Grunewald
14. Berlin moves its marathon into the city
15. The Berlin Marathon runs through the Brandenburg Gate
16. Evidence
17. The Berlin Marathon began in 1974 in the Grunewald, moved into the city on 27 September 1981 starting at the Reichstag with 3,486 runners from 30 nations, and first ran through the Brandenburg Gate on 30 September 1990. V55 verification basis: read through an attributed search summary; reported 1974 participation differs between accounts and is not reconciled by this record.