{"id":1731,"date":"2010-04-21T17:32:59","date_gmt":"2010-04-21T17:32:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hub-dev.bates.edu\/magazine\/?page_id=1731"},"modified":"2017-09-06T11:40:50","modified_gmt":"2017-09-06T15:40:50","slug":"kadewe","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/magazine\/back-issues\/y2005\/spring05\/features\/uncovering-berlin\/kadewe\/","title":{"rendered":"KaDeWe"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>KaDeWe <em>\u2014 by\u00a0Fabio Periera &#8217;07<\/em><\/h3>\n<p>The lighting of the entrance foyer; the seven consecutive floors of perfectly arranged goods; the scrumptious scents of haute cuisine; the eclectic mix of people from all walks of modern German life. Welcome to Das Kaufhaus Des Westens (Department Store of the West), better known as KaDeWe, pronounced kah-day-vay.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 4px\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/Images\/Bates_Magazine\/spring05\/features\/berlin\/perieral-2751WEB.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" align=\"bottom\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It didn\u2019t take long living in Berlin to become introduced to <em>KaDeWe<\/em>; everyone knows what it is and where it is. In a city of so many department stores, I had to wonder, what makes <em>KaDeWe<\/em> so special?<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 8px\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/Images\/Bates_Magazine\/spring05\/features\/berlin\/Periera1766web.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" hspace=\"8\" vspace=\"8\" align=\"right\" \/>I found my answer not through the doors on <em>Tautzienstrasse<\/em>, but through the doors of history. Shopping isn\u2019t always taken seriously, but this originally Jewish institution \u2014 which survived economic depression, two world wars, and Aryanization to become the symbol of West Germany\u2019s economic miracle \u2014 deserves to be treated seriously.<\/p>\n<p>And so I did. And, yes, I shopped a little too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KaDeWe \u2014 by\u00a0Fabio Periera &#8217;07 The lighting of the entrance foyer; the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":221,"featured_media":0,"parent":1728,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_dimp_site_id":"","_dimp_override_contact":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"class_list":["post-1731","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/221"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1731"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11416,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1731\/revisions\/11416"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}