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Anhalter Bahnhof
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Constructed in 1841 on the outskirts of Berlin and was regarded as Berlin's "gateway to the south"
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By 1882 the station had become an international hub with trains coming in from Vienna, Prague, Rome, Basel, Athens and Constantinople
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In 1933 to the begining of the second world war, people used the station to flee the country. In 1936 special trains made it possible for Jews to flee to Palestine
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In 1938-9 the so called children's trains were running from the station to send Jewish children to Britain
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In 1942 it became one of three deportation stations in Berlin, with particularly the older population going to Theresienstadt ghetto and concentration camp
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Between 1944-45 the station was badly damaged during a bombing raid on Berlin
