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When it finally fell on 10 November 1989, huge crowds appeared on both sides of the walls sings, chanting , and attacking the wall with sledgehammers. Potsdamer Platz in 1962 and now Berlin Wall ...
Sunday, Nov. 9 marks the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. For more than 28 years, the barrier completely cut off West Berlin from East Berlin, until it was opened in 1989.
The Berlin Wall stood for exactly 28 years, two months and 26 days. ... Berlin before and after the wall. Foto: DPA/ Wolfgang Kumm Dieser Beitrag stammt aus dem SPIEGEL-Archiv.
On August 24, 1961, 11 days after the Berlin Wall was erected, Günter Litfin jumped into the canal-like Spree River. Litfin, from eastern Berlin, had just acquired an apartment and a job in the ...
East German border guards stand on a section of the Berlin Wall on November 11, 1989—two days after travel restrictions in East Berlin were lifted. ILLUSTRATION: AFP/Getty Images ...
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 ...
Berlin after the fall of the Wall 03:41 The Berlin Wall entered the history books in 1961. It stood for 28 years as a stark testament to the differences between life on one side of that wall and ...
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Walther was 14 when the Wall fell. He didn't leave - he stayed in East Berlin, where he's carved out a nice career in information technology marketing. Walthermarvels at the changes in the life he ...