Who would have known a holiday trip to Germany in December 1989, would have offered an opportunity to be an eyewitness to, ...
On 13 August 1961 a barbed wire fence was erected along the border between East and West Berlin. The wire would quickly be replaced by a concrete wall, complete with lookout towers and armed ...
The Berlin Wall was built in 1961 - to stop people leaving East Berlin for West Berlin. During the 1989 revolutions, several Soviet-imposed communist regimes in Eastern Europe were toppled as ...
Many of the 327 were young manual workers or farmers. East Germany erected the Wall overnight in 1961 and it totally surrounded West Berlin In 1979 two East German families - the Wetzels and ...
UN General Assembly condemns apartheid in South Africa Berlin Wall is built, dividing East and West Germany American-backed Cuban exiles fail in an attempt to invade Cuba at the Bay of Pigs ...
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Incredible images of the building of the Berlin Wallthe Berlin Wall was a heavily guarded barrier that physically and ideologically divided the city from 1961 to 1989. In a wider context, the wall came to symbolize the "Iron Curtain" that separated ...
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Tens of thousands celebrate fall of the Berlin Wall 35 years ago with concerts and art installationsBuilt in 1961, the Berlin Wall stood for 28 years at the front line of the Cold War between the Americans and the Soviets. It was built by communists to cut off East Germans from the supposed ...
Germany marked the 30th anniversary Saturday of the opening of the Berlin Wall, a pivotal moment in the events that brought down Communism in eastern Europe. News Wrap: Anonymous official’s book ...
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