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3 days ago · The Berlin Wall evolved into a series of walls, trenches, floodlights, and watchtowers extending 96 miles around West Berlin and 27 miles through the city center.[^4] A key feature was the so-called "death strip" – a wide no man‘s land between the outer and inner walls where guards had shoot-to-kill orders against anyone attempting to escape.
3 days ago · The Berlin Wall Memorial at Bernauer Strasse is a particularly poignant example, featuring a preserved section of the wall, a documentation center, and an open-air exhibition that explores the history and impact of the division (Berlin Wall Memorial, n.d.).
5 days ago · The Berlin Wall piece from Potzdamer Platz that stands in the United Nations Sculpture Garden, which contains gifts from many member countries of the UN, and this three-slab section was gifted ...
2 days ago · The fall of the East German communist regime—and the accompanying opening of the wall—in late 1989 unexpectedly raised the prospect for Berlin’s reinstatement as the all-German capital. That status was restored in 1990 under the terms of the unification treaty, and subsequently Berlin was designated a state, one of the 16 constituting ...
4 days ago · Bernauer Strasse was a focal point of Germany’s division. The Berlin Wall Memorial commemorates this period in history. The memorial includes the monument, completed in 1998 and designed out of a largely preserved section of the border fortifications; the Berlin Wall Documentation Center that opened in 1999; and the Chapel of Reconciliation, dedicated in 2000 and built on the former death ...
3 days ago · In 1961, East German authorities began construction of a 12 foot high wall which would eventually stretch for 100 miles around the perimeter of West Berlin, preventing anyone from crossing to the West and to freedom. Nearly 200 persons would be killed trying to pass over or dig under the wall. President Kennedy arrived in Berlin on June 26, 1963, following appearances in Bonn, Cologne and ...
5 days ago · 1997: East German leader guilty of Berlin Wall deaths. Former East German leader, Egon Krenz, was sentenced to six and a half years in prison on 25 August 1997. Krenz was convicted on four charges ...
