The Berlin City Palace has risen! After it was almost completely destroyed during an air raid in 1945, the GDR leadership demolished it in 1950 as a »relic of the monarchy«, and then built the Palace of the Republic on the same site. Now it’s back again. The »memoriamania« that ran throughout the time of the German kaisers and spared nothing, no town, no square, no city - everyone wanted to have a kaiser memorial - has thus reached its culmination in the present.