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The history of the Berlin Wall by Sheree Zielke The history of the Berlin Wall covers a period of 28 years during which time East German citizens were imprisoned in their own country; their autonomy to make a decision on where to live and where to work was ripped from them by a 155 kilometer (nea... More> A brief history of the fall of the Berlin Wall by Matthew Adams By 1960, emigration from East Germany to West Germany was having an economic impact in the GDR. Millions of East Berliners had migrated to the more prosperous West Germany. As such, in 1961 the Berlin Wall was gradually constructed across the demarc... More>
	Interesting facts about the Berlin Wall by Ian Farquharson During the height of the Cold War, one of the potent symbols of the struggle between east and west was the Berlin Wall. The wall which separated east and west Berlin as well as the longer Inner German Border came to represent the Iron Curtain betwee... More> Reasons for the building of the Berlin Wall by Angie Lindsay For 28 years, the Berlin wall separated East and West Germany. It also served as a bold symbol of the barrier between democracy and communism. This wall affected citizens geographically, physically and socially , causing West Germany to thrive while... More>
Short stories: The Berlin Wall by charby Peter Fechter. If you come to Berlin, you can see the spot where I died. I was only eighteen years old when, on the 17th of August 1962, I tried to cross the Berlin Wall into West Germany, with my friend Helmut Kulbeik. He made it into the west and ... More> Eastern Germany 20 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall by Anthony Shaw Hope can at times be an overpowering force—the stuff of dreams, something that can lead to a brighter tomorrow when you look round and see everything now is grey and miserable. With hope and optimism, everything can get better, life will impro... More>
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