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A Devon landowner has been ordered to move an unauthorised concrete barrier dividing two housing estates in Okehampton. West ...
The film chronicles the history of Berlin from 1939 to the 1960s, highlighting the rise and fall of Nazi Germany, the onset ...
Sebastian and Julian Sacha, two brothers from the former West Berlin, have been running a business based on the Wall since the beginning of the year, having taken over from a man dubbed a “Wall ...
A Berlin institution, there is simply no other museum quite like it as a chronicle of the Cold War and the extraordinary and ...
The building of the Berlin Wall The response of the West The impact of the Wall on international relations Test your knowledge In the late 1950s, issues around Berlin sparked off one of the ...
sinister meaning when it’s being done in the “no-man’s land” on the Communist side of the Berlin Wall. Guards like this one killed at least 133 people trying to flee to the West during the ...
Experts and travelers say the museum gives context to what's left of the border crossing, and indeed you will find chilling stories of those who escaped from East to West via the Berlin Wall ...
MY WONDERFUL WEST BERLIN, the second part of Jochen Hick’s East-West trilogy ... the arrival of the AIDS epidemic that took so many lives – right up to the fall of the Wall. Jochen Hick, who in 1989 ...
In 87-year-old Harlan Boer’s memory, Dutch flower fields and the smell of cooking bratwurst and schnitzel are as clear as the sight of machine guns and barbed wire.