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The euphoria and jubilation as east German residents broke down the wall that had divided the country for decades. Follow us on twitter at http://twit...
Sort by Harry's Place (Free subscription) - 09/11/2009
I remember reading hearing about an East Berliner who– just after the wall was breached– went to a bookshop in West Berlin and bought a copy of Orwell’s “Nineteen Eighty-Four,” which of course had been unavailable in the German Democratic Republic. The shop owner gave him a discount. Of course there are those who have fond [...]
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Twenty years ago on this day, the Berlin Wall was brought down, removing the division between Communist East Germany and Capitalist West Germany. Shortly afterwards, the Communist regime in East Germany collapsed and German unity (Deutsche Einheit) took place. Five thousand people attempted to escape from East to West Berlin via the Wall. One hundred were killed doing so. They are being remembered...
