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Schöneberg was swallowed up by Greater Berlin as the city expanded. By the 1920s and early 1930s it had become the centre for Berlin's sizeable gay and lesbian community: and gay life in the city was open, fashionable and well organised, with its own newspapers, theatres, and community associations. Under the Third Reich, however, homosexuality was brutally outlawed. A red-granite plaque in the shape of a triangle at Nollendorfplatz U-Bahn station commemorates this. Though the neighbourhood was blown to pieces during the war, this gay village is still going strong, and its nightlife is still first class even though there's competition elsewhere in the city now in Prenzlauer Berg . Another main attraction is the town hall in front of which John F. Kennedy made his "Berliner" speech, his rousing address in 1963.