The ruins of the portico at Anhalter Bahnhof

Anhalter Bahnhof is a former railway station in Berlin, Germany, located about 600 meters southeast of Potsdamer Platz. Once one of Berlin’s most important railway stations, it was severely damaged during World War II and finally closed to traffic in 1952, when the East German Deutsche Reichsbahn rerouted all rail traffic between Berlin and towns in East Germany, bypassing West Berlin. The station’s name lives on in the S-Bahn station of the same name, which opened in October 1939 as part of the North-South S-Bahn line and remains in operation today.”