Most were civilians trying to flee to the West from communist East Germany. The 327 includes 262 who died at the Berlin Wall, and 24 East German border guards who were shot while on duty.
Officially, the border between East and West Berlin traced a right angle near a curved street known as Bethaniendamm, but the wall went straight across, leaving a triangle of East Berlin on the ...
Thirty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, Berlin is divided by light. The contrast is a legacy from the Cold War, when Germany was divided from east to west as tensions mounted between ...
Newsweek’s then-Berlin ... went to the wall frequently in the days following Nov. 9 to capture the moment. He told Mark Kurlansky for his 1995 book “A Chosen Few” that East Germans ...
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 ...
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One Of The Most Daring Escapes Of The Cold War Involved Nothing But Shovels And GritIt was pulled off by a group of brave West German students led by Joachim Rudolph. In 1962, they dug a tunnel under the ...
The opening of the Berlin Wall was one of the most dramatic events of 1989. For 28 years, it stood as a symbol of both the division of Europe and the hardline regime of Erich Honecker. Although no ...
35 years ago on November 9 an imprecise instruction led to the collapse of the border infrastructure surrounding West Berlin ... leader in East Berlin Günter Schabowski. The wall officially ...
It is all thanks to a Cornishman who was in Berlin in 1989, and ended up with a bigger souvenir than he bargained for ...
Germans commemorated on Sunday the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, which on Nov. 9, 1989, ended a years-long divide between East and West Germany. Twenty five years ago Sunday ...
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