The Gedächtniskirche (Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church) compellingly epitomises this objective. ... Berlin shows us how to learn from history without separating ourselves from it.

Berlin’s Kaiser Wilhelm Gedachtniskirche Christmas Market is a compact network of festive pathways, which glows like some seasonal mirage in the centre of Berlin’s stark modernity.

The Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church is one of the few sites in Berlin where the destruction of the war is still visible. Damaged in an air raid in 1943, it was deliberately left in ruins after the war.

Wilhelm Huffmeyer, the chief administrator of Berlin's cathedral, said: "One should not destroy long-established traditions, but there is an open question as to whether the last German kaiser ...