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Berlin's “Central Park” stretches two miles from Bahnhof Zoo to the Brandenburg Gate.
TheTiergarten'snewlyrestoredcenterpiece,theVictoryColumn,wasbuilttocommemorate
the Prussian defeat of Denmark in 1864...then reinterpreted after the defeat of France in
1870. The pointy-helmeted Germans rubbed it in, decorating the tower with French cannons
and paying for it all with francs received as war reparations. The three lower rings com-
