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Relic reborn Neglected GDR cafe is now lauded art gallery

or almost three decades it appeared to have been consigned to the scrap heap of history, a relic of East German communism considered redundant and unsightly, and destined to fall victim to the wrecking ball. But a former terrace cafe in the city of Potsdam, just west of Berlin, is being lauded as a showpiece of socialist realist architecture having been saved from demolition by a billionaire German businessman who has recast

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