What it was like witnessing the fall of the Berlin Wall
When word of crowds gathering at the Berlin Wall reached Europe correspondent Ian Henderson on a cold November day in 1989, ...
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The Berlin Wall - CCEA
The building of the Berlin Wall The response of the West The impact ... complete with lookout towers and armed guards who had orders to shoot anyone trying to cross into the Western sector.
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One Of The Most Daring Escapes Of The Cold War Involved Nothing But Shovels And Grit
Eventually, three million Germans fled to the West, mainly through Berlin. On August 12, 1961, East Germany strung up barbed wire around the city and erected a concrete wall decked out with guard ...