Philosophers at the Humboldt University of Berlin, meanwhile, are exploring the various ways in which robotic technologies challenge the notion of what it means to be human.
Kennan spent two years in Berlin, learning Russian at Friedrich Wilhelm (now Humboldt) University and taking classes in Russian history at the University of Berlin.
That impression is broadly right, thinks Oskar Niedermayer, a politics professor at the Free University of Berlin.
Supporters of the ESM, such as Christian Calliess at the Free University of Berlin, who advised the court, countered that the ESM was designed so that its board, to be based in Luxembourg, needs approval for its decisions from the parliaments of member states.
And several departments of Berlin's Humboldt University have moved to the Adlershof industrial park in an eastern suburb, to work closely with the 200-plus technology firms that have already moved in.
By its ruling, the court sets itself up as final arbiter of further EU integration (and even of rulings by the European Court of Justice), argues Christian Calliess of the Free University in Berlin.
Wolfgang Benz, head of the Centre for Anti-Semitism Research at Berlin university, said the case was about establishing whether Mr Demjanjuk was guilty, not exacting punishment.
These findings, from a survey of 5, 200 schoolchildren by Berlin's Free University, dismayed those who think national identity and democratic values rest on shared judgments about the traumatic past.
ECONOMIST: East German history continues to arouse controversy
The Tanzverbot was first established by the church and was later adopted by many city governments starting in the Middle Ages, said Wolfgang Kaschuba, director of the Institute for European Ethnology at Humboldt University in Berlin.
It has, says Oskar Niedermayer, a political-science professor at Berlin's Free University, caused a one-time shift in Germany's political balance of power.
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