The fall of the berlin wall

The fall of the Berlin Wall, 1989

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Berlin Wall falls

“A half of the city was the whole city for me.” Jenny Erpenbeck on growing up in a divided Berlin.

The Berlin Wall, which came down 25 years ago, split the great German city, separating friends and families.

The image is a newspaper article from London about the fall of the Berlin wall and it shows how it was covered in the UK. From the point of view it shows the fall of the Iron curtain of communism and the push against it. Compared to other sources they were open to giving out the details to the fall of the wall.They had the same types of views as Americans in that they view it as the end of communism.

Sometimes a kiss is worth the history books.

Few symbols better captured the Cold War divide between western Europe and the Soviet bloc than the Berlin Wall, a concrete and barbed wire barrier that divided Germany’s largest city for nearly 30 years. As World War II wound to a close, Germany and Berlin were divided into four zones, each administered by one of […]

Less than one year after the destruction of the Berlin Wall, East and West Germany come together on what is known as “Unity Day.” Since 1945, when Soviet forces occupied eastern Germany, and the United States and other Allied forces occupied the western half of the nation at the close of World War II, divided […]