when its suburbs were annexed to Berlin in 1920, it became a city of four million, third largest in the world after London and New York (fig. 23). By the later nineteenth century, Berlin’s status as capital was only secondarily and indirectly responsible for its growth. More than most national capitals, Berlin became a major industrial center. Men and women from the surrounding provinces and beyond poured into the city in search of work. At midcentury, the most striking growth was concentrated in its metalworking and machinery factories, such as Borsig, builder of railroad locomotives. A few
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