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But on August 13th, 1961, “Berlin woke up to a divided city.” The GDR immediately began on a wall between East and West “made out of concrete and topped off with barbed wire,” though it couldn’t command the resources to build its whole length quite so solidly right away.
3 days ago · The West Berlin-based Radio in the American Sector reported the Berlin events and thus probably helped to incite the uprising in other parts of East Germany which involved more than one million people in about 700 localities. Early on 17 June 40,000 protesters had gathered in East Berlin, with more arriving throughout the morning.
2 days ago · Consulate-General (West Berlin) 1994 Baden-Baden France: Consulate 1992 Bonn Austria: Embassy branch office 2006 Belarus: Embassy branch office 2014 Bulgaria: Embassy branch office 2012 Colombia: Consulate-General 2002 Czechia: Consulate-General 2008 East Germany: Permanent Mission: 1990 Indonesia: Embassy branch office
4 days ago · Looking closer at films, TV shows, docs, and miniseries that explore, recreate, and occasionally flub up real historical events. The Best Movies About The Berlin Wall, as voted on by fans. Current Top 3: Bridge of Spies, The Lives of Others, Good bye, Lenin!
2 days ago · Although the Philippine diplomatic mission network is wide, there are embassies that are accredited to other nations without Philippine diplomatic posts. The network as of February 2024 consists of 63 embassies, 26 consulates-general, 4 permanent missions to international organizations, and the Manila Economic and Cultural Office (MECO) in ...
2 days ago · The political division of post-war Germany resulted in the separation of the museum’s holdings. Objects that had been seized and taken to the Soviet Union were returned to East Berlin in 1958 and exhibited from then on in the Bode-Museum. The exhibition was dedicated to the cultural and religious history of the kingdom of the Pharaohs.
1 day ago · Indonesia, for example, is more than 3,000 miles from west to east (exceeding the west-east extent of the continental United States) and more than 1,000 miles from north to south; the area of Laos is only slightly smaller than that of the United Kingdom; and Myanmar is considerably larger than France.
