The Berlin Wall (German: Berliner Mauer) was a barrier separating West Berlin from East Berlin and the rest of East Germany. The longer 'inner German border' demarcated the remainder of the East-West German border between the two states. Both borders were part of the Iron Curtain...
The Berlin Wall During The Cold War The Berlin wall was a wall that was up to 15 feet high, which separated East and West Berlin during the Cold War. It lasted 28 years from 1961 and 1989. Throughout this time period, many people living in East Germany left and fled to West Germany...
For almost four decades, a wall separated East and West Berlin until 27 years ago when it all came tumbling down. Through sheer will and determination, people swinging hammers and pickaxes chopped away at the graffiti-covered concrete. The Berlin Wall was much more than a physical barrier that...
Brandenburg Gate gate dates back to the 18th Century as it used to be one of the old gates leading in to the city. Now after the wall came down in 1989 this became a symbol of unity between East and West Germany. This neoclassical triumphal arch is one of the most important sites to ...
On August 13, 1961, the Communist government of East Germany began to build a barbed wire and concrete “Antifascistischer Schutzwall,” or “antifascist bulwark,” between East and West Berlin. The official purpose of the Berlin Wall was to keep Western
Erected in the dead of night on August 13, 1961, the Berlin Wall (known asBerliner Mauerin German) was a physical barrier between West Berlin and East Germany that kept disaffected East Germans from fleeing to the West. When the Berlin Wall fell on November 9, 1989, its destruction was ...
was a wall that separated the communist Eastern side of Berlin from the democratic Western side. The wall was built in 1961 and stood for nearly 28 years. It all started after the World War II, when Germany was divided into two parts – East Germany Zone and West Germany Zone, among the...
Soon the wall was gone and Berlin was united for the first time since 1945. “Only today,” one Berliner spray-painted on a piece of the wall, “is the war really over.” The reunification of East and West Germany was made official on October 3, 1990, almost one year after the fall...
After Berlin Wall, Did West Germany Absorb East, or Vice Versa?For East Germans, concerns that capitalist West Germany wouldsubsume their culture when the...Llana, Sara Miller
He modified the engine bay of his BMW Isetta into a hiding place for stowaways and helped his friend flee East Germany. A man from Berlin tells the story of how he converted his car and how they were nearly caught.