In East Berlin - city of peace - there is no time for guilt about the past. The future is too pressing. Whether the West likes it or not, this is the capital of the German Democratic Republic, where the workers are united in using the 750th anniversary to hasten the reconstruction of the city in that image.
From across the wall, Max Easterman reports on the realities of life behind the rhetoric and propaganda in this other Berlin where a closed frontier is the price of peace. Producer JOCK GALLAGHER BBC Pebble Mill