Summary While East Berlin's GDR industry and hundreds of thousands of East Berliners became unemployed from one day to the next, investors from the West hoped for big business and took unprecedented risks. In their slipstream, techno pioneers and squatters conquer empty factory buildings, churches and cinemas in the center of Berlin to live out their utopias, at least on a small scale, or simply to party freely. The Love Parade goes from being a ridiculed event organized by a few dance enthusiasts to a success story. Berlin becomes the German capital and also bids to host the 2000 Olympic Games, which is too much for the citizens of the poor city and drives the left-wing scene onto the barricades. The fact that Nazis are increasingly hunting down foreigners and left-wingers in the eastern part of the new German capital does not fit in at all with the image of the international metropolis. Politicians continue to stick to their plans undeterred and are having the symbol of their metropolitan dreams cast in concrete erected in the heart of the city, at Potsdamer Platz. However, Europe's largest construction site on the former death strip can hardly hide the fact: Dark clouds are looming over the new German capital.

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