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Vor 4 Tagen · The city itself echoed the national partition—East Berlin being the capital of East Germany and West Berlin a Land (state) of the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG, or West Germany). West Berlin’s isolation was later reinforced by the concrete barrier erected in 1961 and known as the Berlin Wall .
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Vor 5 Tagen · May 26, 2024. The Berlin Blockade of 1948-1949 was one of the first major crises of the Cold War, a decisive event that helped solidify the emerging conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union. By attempting to starve West Berlin into submission, Soviet leader Joseph Stalin inadvertently sparked an unprecedented Allied ...
Vor 5 Tagen · Constructed overnight on August 13, 1961, the wall‘s primary purpose was to stem the tide of East Germans fleeing to the West in search of a better life. In this blog post, we‘ll delve into the historical context and reasons behind the construction of the Berlin Wall, as well as its impact on the city and its people, from a historian‘s perspective.
Vor 3 Tagen · After the Marshall Plan, the introduction of a new currency to Western Germany to replace the debased Reichsmark and massive electoral losses for communist parties, in June 1948, the Soviet Union cut off surface road access to Berlin, initiating the Berlin Blockade, which cut off all non-Soviet food, water and other supplies for the ...
Vor 5 Tagen · May 26, 2024. For nearly three decades, the Berlin Wall stood as a grim symbol of the Cold War divide between East and West. Constructed virtually overnight in August 1961, this concrete barrier split Germany‘s capital in two, separating families and trapping East Germans under strict communist rule.
Vor 18 Stunden · The 185 square miles (480 square km) of the “island” of West Berlin were similarly ringed from 1961 to 1989 by the Berlin Wall running through the city and by a heavily guarded wire-mesh fence in the areas abutting the East German countryside.
Vor 5 Tagen · Von 1961 bis 1989 war Westberlin von der Berliner Mauer umgeben. Mit dem Mauerfall 1989 und der deutschen Wiedervereinigung im Jahr 1990 wuchsen die beiden Stadthälften wieder zusammen und Berlin erhielt seine Rolle als gesamtdeutsche Hauptstadt zurück.
