How to understand the first sentence?
In Berlin evil has postcodes. At 10117 in Göring’s Air Ministry
on Wilhelmstraße, the bombing of Guernica was planned and
the results (number of deaths per kilo of explosive) analysed in
preparation for the Nazis’ Blitzkrieg of Europe. At 10178, where
Schinkel had dreamt of a new kind of museum and Lilli Neuss
awoken a long-forgotten dream, thousands of Berliners gathered to
hear Goebbels speak, crying out on cue, ‘Hang them! Hang the
Jews!’ Across Unter den Linden on Opernplatz, students wearing
green and purple fraternity caps piled thousands of banned books
(Diary of a Lost Girl among them) and set them alight, watching the
half-burnt pages whirl in the night air like inky moths.

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That is generally explained in the later sentences. It is saying that the places where evil acts were planned or carried out were so large, that they had a unique post code for each place.

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common paragraph starter:you outline the conclusion or a viewpoint or an eye-catcher first and get to explaining it later, along with evidence.
i think it would pay if they put "In Berlin, evil has postcodes" and it simply means what gary explained, they have "postcodes" for their operations.

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