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It was a well known fact at the time that the Red Marble used to repair Mohrenstrasse U-bahn station was recycled from the nearby New Chancellery, demolished by the Red Army because of it's symbolic meaning during the nazi era.
That specific station suffered heavy damage and become the terminal station of the line after the Berlin Wall was erected. The use of Marble from the demolished Chancellery would make perfect sense, given the shortage of materials at the time and the state of disrepair of the station, a U-bahn Station wouldn't certainly require that quantity of expensive and valuable Red Marble to be transported from far away, particularly in a very difficult post-war time.
The analysis of the Marble confirms that it originates in Thuringia, as reported by the soviet controlled press of the time but that could had been the origin of the Chancellery Red Marble as well.
It appears very likely that the Soviets did not want Mohrenstrasse U-bahn station to become a neo-nazi's shrine; deception, fabrications and lies where the norm in Stalin's USSR, it should not surprise that the press lied.
The Book "Architecture in Berlin 1933–1945: A Guide Through Nazi Berlin" By Matthias Donath reports at page 14: "Marble form the New Reich Chancellery was used for the Soviet Memorial in Tiergardten and for the redesigned subway station at Thälmannplatz (today's Mohrenstrasse).
