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The restaurant itself is long gone and most of the area looks very different, having been rebuilt after the bombing during the Second World War, but there’s an obelisk marking the spot just a few yards from Odeonsplatz square, upon which the club’s founding document is mounted.
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Sebastian Stafford-Bloor, New York Times, 7 June 2025
These are very different entities than NPR and PBS—some have roots in the counter-propaganda operations of the Second World War and the Cold War, and all of them are still seen as tools of U.S. soft power—but they are designed to be editorially independent, and often do produce good journalism.
—Jon Allsop, New Yorker, 6 June 2025
The 1991 parade, dubbed the National Victory Celebration, was held on June 8, 1991, and marked the first time the capital had seen such an event since the end of the Second World War 46 years earlier.
—Paul Iddon, Forbes.com, 3 June 2025
Since the Second World War, our world has never been more dangerous and unstable.
—Sonam Sheth
gabe Whisnant, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 May 2025
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Sebastian Stafford-Bloor, New York Times, 7 June 2025
These are very different entities than NPR and PBS—some have roots in the counter-propaganda operations of the Second World War and the Cold War, and all of them are still seen as tools of U.S. soft power—but they are designed to be editorially independent, and often do produce good journalism.
—Jon Allsop, New Yorker, 6 June 2025
The 1991 parade, dubbed the National Victory Celebration, was held on June 8, 1991, and marked the first time the capital had seen such an event since the end of the Second World War 46 years earlier.
—Paul Iddon, Forbes.com, 3 June 2025
Since the Second World War, our world has never been more dangerous and unstable.
—Sonam Sheth
gabe Whisnant, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 May 2025
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“Second World War.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Second%20World%20War. Accessed 10 Jun. 2025.
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