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The unique panoramas depict the course of the Berlin Wall through Berlin’s city center from the perspective of those who built it. In the early 1990s, while researching at Potsdam’s Militärisches ...
I n the early 1960s, LIFE magazine’s photographers chronicled the construction of the Berlin Wall and, once it was built, its effect on residents living in the newly divided city. The Soviets ...
Annett Gröschner and Arwed Messmer are currently presenting The Other View: The Early Berlin Wall as both a book and as an exhibition in Berlin. If you can't make it to Berlin, check it out here.
When the Berlin Wall fell and the Cold War ended, ... After just a few hours of sleep in the early morning, we climbed on the wall in front of the Brandenburg Gate and tested how far we could go.
Berlin Wall 08/10/2011 August 10, 2011. The Berlin Wall cut the city in two for nearly 30 years. After it was built, East German soldiers took pictures documenting the zone between East and West.
The freewheeling singer had a key role during the era of the wall — he’d played a show in East Berlin‎ in the early 1980’s, rallying the city’s youth, and also is the inspiration for ...
Berlin Wall - Now and Then 13 photos ... He said in the early 1990s "Berlin was a bit like the Wild West . . . because the East German police, they didn't really know the new laws.
And it was the fall of the Wall, Moellering said, that made Berlin the capital of cool. He said in the early 1990s "Berlin was a bit like the Wild West . . . you could basically do what you want." ...
Anna Kaminsky would never meet her father. He died in the early 1980s, before the wall came down.. On Nov. 9, 1989, Kaminsky was asleep in Halle, nearly two hours from Berlin.
BERLIN — Günter-Schabowski, the former East German Communist Party official who accidentally announced the opening of the border between East and West Berlin when responding to a reporter's ...
As the world marks the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall on Nov. 9, 1989, we should also remember the many dozens of people who died trying to get past it. Ida Siekmann, the wall’s ...