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History > Cold War > Germany is divided 1949
East Berlin women waving plaintful greetings to their West Berllin friends across the barbed-wire barricade, which later became the Berlin wall.
Location: East Berlin, Germany
Date taken: March 1953
Photograph: Ralph Crane
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24 June 1948 - 12 May 1949
Berlin Soviet blockade Berlin airlift
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/special_report/ http://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/berlinwall/8231.shtml
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/may/12/berlin-blockade-60th-anniversary
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/gallery/2008/jun/26/germany.russia?picture=335291007
1949
Germany is divided
The US, French and British zones in the west become the Federal Republic of Germany;
the Soviet zone in the east becomes the communist German Democratic Republic. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/country_profiles/1053880.stm
The Federal Republic of Germany - West Germany - is founded on 12 May 1949.
On the 24 May, the German Democratic Republic - East Germany - is founded. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/1484769.stm
May Day In Berlin
Date taken: May 04, 1953
Photograph: Ralph Crane
Life Images http://images.google.com/hosted/life/l?imgurl=1f896d63c54d657
May Day In Berlin
Date taken: May 04, 1953
Photograph: Ralph Crane
Life Images http://images.google.com/hosted/life/l?imgurl=e762735b9f105984
May Day In Berlin
Date taken: May 04, 1953
Photograph: Ralph Crane
Life Images http://images.google.com/hosted/life/l?imgurl=621d0d2c28dc1884
May Day In Berlin
Date taken: May 04, 1953
Photograph: Ralph Crane
Life Images http://images.google.com/hosted/life/l?imgurl=6c0a123748facba2
May Day In Berlin
Date taken: May 04, 1953
Photograph: Ralph Crane
Life Images http://images.google.com/hosted/life/l?imgurl=5d05001fcb418e78
May Day In Berlin
Date taken: May 04, 1953
Photograph: Ralph Crane
Life Images http://images.google.com/hosted/life/l?imgurl=f2ad8d34e345b8fa
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/country_profiles/1053880.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/1484769.stm
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