Guten Tag – or, as they more often say in these less formal times, Hallo – from constituency number 061, otherwise known as Potsdam, a city of parks, palaces, film studios and Prussian-ness. For the British, Potsdam will always be the place where the victorious Allies met to carve out the zones of Germany’s occupation – a division which led to Germany becoming two separate countries. After reunification in 1990, Potsdam was designated the capital of the state of Brandenburg.
The Potsdam vote will be a test of both the left and far-right’s capacity to broaden its appeal
In so far as many German cities have a complicated history, the history of Potsdam, less than half an hour from the centre of Berlin, is more complicated than most. The direct S-Bahn overground route into Berlin passes through Wannsee, where in 1942 Nazis are said to have plotted the ‘final solution’ to annihilate Europe’s Jews.
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