Over the past decade – perhaps more than ever – public history has become weaponized by the populist right around the world. In this interview, Jerome de Groot discusses how political shifts, funding cuts, and culture wars are redefining our relationship with the past.

Of all the lost railway stations in Berlin, the Lehrter Bahnhof could be called the least successful from one viewpoint, and the most successful from another. While it seems to have been replaced by Berlin’s Hauptbahnhof, its architectural legacy lives on.