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History > Cold War > Germany > Berlin Wall
1961-1989
Peter Fechter
[1944 - 17 August 1962]
is held by East German border guards,
prior to being pronounced dead
Aug. 17,
1962.
Fechter was shot by East German guards
as he
tried to make it over the wall.
Boston Globe > Big Picture
Remembering the
Berlin Wall
August 17, 2011
http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2011/08/remembering_the_divide.html
Remembering the Berlin Wall
Photographs August 17, 2011
http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2011/08/
remembering_the_divide.html
Berlin wall 25 years later 2014
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/07/
opinion/how-the-berlin-wall-really-fell.html
Berlin wall 20 years later 2009
Berlin wall 20
years on:
In the first of five films,
Berliners
describe
how their city
was divided by the wall
and how a few
risked their lives
to escape
from east to west
http://www.theguardian.com/berlin-wall-20-years-on
https://www.theguardian.com/world/berlinwall
https://www.nytimes.com/topic/subject/berlin-wall
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/
story.php?storyId=111814914
- August 12, 2009
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/gallery/2009/oct/20/berlinwall-germany
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/nov/09/berlin-wall-anniversary-celebrations
http://www.guardian.co.uk/travel/interactive/2009/oct/23/berlin-wall-history-guide
https://www.theguardian.com/berlin-wall-20-years-on
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/video/2009/oct/19/building-berlin-wall
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/video/2009/oct/20/berlin-wall-episode-2
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/09/world/europe/09berlin.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/09/opinion/09zizek.html
9 November 1989
Berliners celebrate the fall of the Wall
The 28-mile (45
km) barrier
dividing Germany's capital
was built in
1961
to prevent East Berliners
fleeing to the West.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/witness/november/9/newsid_3241000/3241641.stm
http://www.nytimes.com/imagepages/2009/11/06/world/08berlinwallgrfxB-ready.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/09/world/europe/
09iht-wall.html
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2009/11/09/world/europe/
20091109-berlinwallthennow.html
http://video.nytimes.com/video/2009/11/02/
opinion/1247465491747/the-man-who-opened-the-gate.html
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2009/11/09/world/europe/
20091109-berlin-wall-reader-photos.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/november/9/
newsid_2515000/2515869.stm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1URzkk-oa28
https://www.archives.gov/presidential-libraries/events/
german-reunification/exhibit.html
https://www.npr.org/2022/11/07/
1133129875/berlin-wall-npr
http://www.nytimes.com/1989/11/12/weekinreview/
beyond-the-wall-not-just-one-german-question-but-many.html
http://www.nytimes.com/1989/11/12/world/
clamor-east-reunion-west-berlin-for-all-east-west-day-like-no-other.html
http://www.nytimes.com/1989/11/11/world/
clamor-east-border-open-joyous-east-germans-pour-through-wall-party-pledges.html
http://www.nytimes.com/1989/11/10/world/
clamor-east-east-germany-opens-frontier-west-for-migration-travel-thousands.html
https://www.theguardian.com/world/1989/nov/10/
berlinwall.germany3
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/witness/november/9/
newsid_3241000/3241641.stm
June 12 1987
President
Ronald
Reagan (1981-1989)
visits Berlin and urges
Soviet
leader Mikhail Gorbachev
to tear down the wall
Reagan's Berlin address.
Video.
YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=WjWDrTXMgF8&feature=related
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WjWDrTXMgF8
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tear_down_this_wall!
https://www.nytimes.com/1987/06/13/
world/raze-berlin-wall-reagan-urges-soviet.html
https://www.theguardian.com/gall/0,,1233194,00.html
West Berlin,
26 June 1963
West Germany
John Kennedy's
"Ich bin ein Berliner" speech
Kennedy Visit To Germany
[ Standing in car from L to R:
John F. Kennedy
and
Konrad Adenauer - 1963
]
Photographer: John Dominis
Life Images
http://images.google.com/hosted/life/l?imgurl=12b742b80597679 - broken link
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3022166.stm
For 16 hours
from the 27
to 28 October 1961,
US and Soviet tanks
faced each other
in
divided Berlin
and the two superpowers
came close to kicking
off
a third world war
than in any other
cold-war confrontation,
bar the Cuban missile crisis
a year later.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/oct/24/berlin-crisis-standoff-checkpoint-charlie
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/19/us/
steuart-pittman-head-of-fallout-shelter-program-dies-at-93.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/oct/24/
berlin-crisis-standoff-checkpoint-charlie
in the early 1960s
(...)
two groups of diggers
built tunnels
that were filmed and financed
by U.S. television networks.
Those networks wanted
to turn acts of daring
into primetime specials.
But when the U.S. government
discovered those projects,
the Kennedy administration
moved to suppress them.
http://www.npr.org/2016/10/29/
499790368/a-harrowing-tale-of-cold-war-escape-and-suppression-in-the-tunnels
http://www.npr.org/2016/10/29/
499790368/a-harrowing-tale-of-cold-war-escape-and-suppression-in-the-tunnels
Berliners wake to divided city Berlin wall 13 August 1961
Time Covers - The 60S
TIME cover 08-31-1962 The Berlin Wall.
Date taken: August 31, 1962
Photograph: Boris Artzybasheff
Life Images
The border between
East and West Berlin is
closed.
Soldiers start
to build the wall.
What starts as barbed wire
and light fencing
builds up over the years
into a complex series of wall,
fortified
fences, gun positions
and watchtowers
heavily guarded
and patrolled.
More than 200 people die
in the years that
followed
trying to cross the wall.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/1484769.stm
Berlin Wall
Young girl gazing pensively
through the pane of her apartment
window
which grimly reflects the image of barbed wire fencing
that
tops the nearby Berlin wall.
Location: West Berlin, Germany
Date taken: December 1962
Photographer: Paul Schutzer
Life Images
Berlin Wall
Young boy & girl playing soccer next to the Berlin wall.
Location: West Berlin, Germany
Date taken: December 1962
Photographer: Paul Schutzer
Life Images
West Berlin citizens crowding against nascent Berlin Wall
while lone guared ignores them
on the other side of the
barrier
in the Russian controlled sector of the city.
Location: Berlin, Germany
Date taken: 1961
Photograph: Paul Schutzer
Life Images
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/august/13/newsid_3054000/3054060.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/1484769.stm
http://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/berlinwall/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/people/highlights/010815_berlinwall.shtml
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/aug/16/
escape-from-east-berlin
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/oct/27/
berlin-wall-short-history
1961
Berlin
Kennedy, Khrushchev
and the most dangerous
place on Earth
http://www.reuters.com/video/2011/05/13/
berlin-1961-kennedy-khrushchev-and-the-m?videoId=210782253
http://blogs.reuters.com/berlin1961/2011/05/05/
reliving-the-cold-wars-tensest-moment/
http://blogs.reuters.com/berlin1961/2011/05/18/
a-bumper-crop-of-soviet-humor/
http://blogs.reuters.com/berlin1961/2011/05/19/
acheson-fills-a-kennedy-power-vacuum/
http://blogs.reuters.com/berlin1961/2011/05/16/
the-snubbed-soviet-strikes-back/
http://blogs.reuters.com/berlin1961/2011/05/05/
the-characters-who-clashed-in-berlin-1961/
http://blogs.reuters.com/berlin1961/2011/05/06/
how-misreading-khrushchev-led-to-confrontation/
http://blogs.reuters.com/berlin1961/2011/05/08/
the-legacy-of-soviet-rape-in-germany/
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