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30 years after the fall. Hello and welcome to Plugged in. I'm Greta Van Susteren. If walls could talk, the more than 150 kilometers of concrete and barbed wire that once divided the German capital ...
The Berlin Wall was built in 1961 and for 28 years, it stood as the front line of the Cold War between the Western world order, led by the U.S., and the Soviets.
The fall of the Berlin Wall that separated West and East Berlin from Aug. 13, 1961, to Nov. 9, 1989, is known as the monumental event that marked the end of the Cold War. The following year Germany… ...
Why German divisions remain, 30 years after fall of the Berlin Wall. It's been 30 years since one of the 20th century's biggest historic events: the fall of the Berlin Wall.
The longest section of Wall remaining in Berlin is the East Side Gallery, where the once-gray concrete slabs are covered with murals that were painted by 118 artists after the opening of the border.
The wall caused a sudden labor shortage in both halves of the city when it was erected in 1961, and invited substitute workers poured in. (West Berlin drew from Turkey and other Mediterranean ...
Immigration. Berlin Wall relic gets ‘second life’ on U.S.-Mexico border as Biden adds barriers Shards of the Berlin Wall scattered worldwide after it crumbled in 1989, with collectors putting ...