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Jan 30, 2020 · Updated on January 30, 2020. Erected in the dead of night on August 13, 1961, the Berlin Wall (known as Berliner Mauer in German) was a physical division between West Berlin and East Germany. Its purpose was to keep disaffected East Germans from fleeing to the West. When the Berlin Wall fell on November 9, 1989, its destruction was nearly as ...
The Berlin Wall was a huge propaganda victory for the West. It suggested communism needed to build a wall to keep people under their control. In Germany today, small segments of the wall are in ...
Nov 5, 2019 · It was on 9 November 1989, five days after half a million people gathered in East Berlin in a mass protest, that the Berlin Wall dividing communist East Germany from West Germany crumbled. East ...
Aug 11, 2020 · For 28 years following the fateful border closure on Sunday 13 August 1961, the edifice which inspired the novels of John le Carré and Len Deighton had become a fixture in the Cold War landscape, threatening death to any daring to cross it. An audacious bid to tunnel under the Berlin Wall.
Nov 8, 2023 · A man attacks the Berlin Wall with a pickaxe on the night of November 9th, 1989. On 9 November 1989, the Berlin Wall that had long divided the city and its inhabitants crumbled. In this exclusive ...
Dec 6, 2023 · The Berlin Wall as a political symbol. “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!”. U.S. President Ronald Reagan. When Ronald Reagan addressed these words to Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev in June of 1987, few believed that just two years later the Berlin Wall would actually be dismantled. It seemed like a permanent fixture, symbolizing the ...
The Berlin Wall (German: Berliner Mauer) was a wall that separated the city of Berlin in Germany from 1961 to 1989. It separated the eastern half from the western half. Many people believed it was a symbol of the Cold War. The Berlin Wall was taken down on November 9, 1989. The Berlin Wall was about 168 kilometres (104 miles) long.
